Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
Yesterday, the United States Department of Education (DOE) released long-anticipated final amended regulations governing college and university handling of sexual misconduct matters under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX). Title IX is a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational programs and activities which receive federal financial assistance.
May 7, 2020 Tags: amended regulations, Johns Hopkins University, Title IX
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Internet entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital, Alexis Ohanian will be the speaker for Johns Hopkins University’s virtual commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 21.
May 5, 2020 Tags: 2020 commencement, Alexis Ohanian, Class of 2020, Commencement, commencement speaker, Reddit, virtual commencement
| Category: Commencement, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University has launched the East Baltimore COVID-19 Food Access Initiative, a partnership between JHU, Saval Foodservice, Hungry Harvest, and 16 faith based and community organizations to provide emergency food assistance to families impacted by COVID-19.
April 24, 2020 Tags: community, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Food Access Initiative
| Category: University-Related
A computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University is available to discuss the study that he and his students have completed that analyzes Major League Baseball’s plan to realign Minor League Baseball by eliminating several small-town teams across the United States and re-shuffling remaining squads into new leagues.
April 17, 2020 Tags: Anton Dahbura, Department of Computer Science, Major League Baseball, minor league baseball
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Sports
Johns Hopkins University has learned about the existence of malware designed to look like the university’s coronavirus tracking map in an effort to steal information from users who visit the fake site.
March 17, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19
| Category: Engineering, Technology, University-Related
Due to the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University is transitioning to remote instruction for all classroom-based academic programs. To facilitate this transition, we are canceling the next several days of classes. We also are strongly encouraging undergraduate students not to return to campus from spring break next week and to plan to remain home through at least April 12.
March 10, 2020 | Category: University-Related
In announcing new HopkinsLocal goals tightly focused on addressing inequality in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is doubling down on efforts to build the city’s economy by bringing work and opportunity to the people in the city who need it most.
January 29, 2020 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
More than 500 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 23, 2020 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Robotics, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public
Three decades ago Johns Hopkins University political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg warned in his book, Politics By Other Means, that party loyalty was beginning to trump a higher sense of national duty among elected leaders. The trend, he wrote, would one day “undermine the governing capacities of the nation’s institutions, diminishing the ability of America’s government to manage domestic and foreign affairs, and contributing to the erosion of the nation’s international political and economic standing.”
January 17, 2020 Tags: Congress, Donald Trump, impeachment
| Category: Government and Politics, Public policy
Johns Hopkins employees, alumni, students and friends will attend the annual Christmas Eve graveside observance honoring the founder of the university and health system, Mr. Johns Hopkins.
December 20, 2019 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Johns Hopkins University that celebrates a vital population in our community. A reimagining of Columbus Day, the event will honor the rich heritage of Indigenous communities with a Pow-Wow featuring singing, drummers, dancing, and tastings of tribal cuisine.
October 11, 2019 Tags: Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, Johns Hopkins University, Pow-Wow
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
In honor of World Sight Day, Vision for Baltimore will host a vision health fair at Henderson-Hopkins School on Thursday, October 10. Now in its fourth year, Vision for Baltimore is a citywide program between The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City Health Department, nonprofit Vision To Learn and eyewear retailer Warby Parker to provide all pre-K through 8th grade public school students with vision screenings, eye exams and eyeglasses, all at no out-of-pocket costs for families. Other funders include the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Abell Foundation.
October 9, 2019 Tags: event, Henderson-Hopkins School, Vision for Baltimore
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Weeding, canvassing neighborhoods to share information about community resources and picking up trash. These are just some of the ways more than 1,300 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 21, as they volunteer en masse at 38 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 20, 2019 Tags: community service, Day of Service, President’s Day of Service, volunteer
| Category: Homewood Campus News, University-Related
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University has unveiled plans for the Institute’s home in Baltimore, designed by world-renowned architecture firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The new structure on the Homewood campus promises to represent the mission and values of the Institute as well as the creativity and vibrancy of the university and the city.
September 19, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Renzo Piano, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.
July 15, 2019 Tags: biomedical engineering, cancer, Nicholas Durr, oncology, student research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
On July 3, Johns Hopkins University, along with the architecture and design team of Ennead Architects and SmithGroup, filed for an informational review with the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts for the proposed “Hopkins D.C.” facility in the property currently housing the Newseum at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. This is a first step to obtain early feedback from CFA in advance of the formal review process that will begin later in the year, along with reviews and approvals by other entities.
July 5, 2019 Tags: building, Hopkins DC, Newseum
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Alicia Wilson, an accomplished attorney and civic leader with deep expertise in creating local economic opportunity, has been appointed vice president for economic development for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System. She will lead the newly-created Office of Economic Development when she joins the organization in July.
June 19, 2019 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Baltimore, BLocal, East Baltimore Development Initiative, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins University, vice president for economic development
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration
More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 23, at the commencement ceremony for all of the University’s divisions and campuses.
May 20, 2019 Tags: 2019, Class Of 2019, Commencement, graduation, Jeffrey Goldberg
| Category: Commencement, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Twenty-five local companies that came together pledging to create more economic opportunity in Baltimore report after the first three years of that effort, they’re buying $50 million more from city and with minority vendors than they had been and have hired more than 1,700 Baltimore residents.
May 15, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, Economic Inclusion, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration
A Canadian Supreme Court justice, a Johns Hopkins University board of trustees chair, an acclaimed economist, The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, a former commander of the United States Strategic Command, a renowned geneticist, and the ad exec who created Meatless Mondays will receive Johns Hopkins honorary degrees this year.
May 6, 2019 | Category: Commencement, University-Related
The Centers for Civic Impact, an effort to help public organizations thoughtfully and masterfully use data and research to better understand and improve public life, has launched at Johns Hopkins University.
April 29, 2019 Tags: Beth Blauer, Center for Applied Public Research, Center for Government Excellence, Centers for Civic Impact, GovEx, GovEx Academy
| Category: Government and Politics, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Freshmen mechanical engineering students at the Johns Hopkins University have built an interactive 17-hole miniature golf course for 2019 JHU Spring Fair guests to enjoy. Working in teams of three or four, the students have created 17 holes that make up a lively golf course—each hole has moving parts, sensors and lights. Come see the course for yourself and try your hand at a round or two.
April 23, 2019 Tags: campus, Engineering, engineering student projects, event, golf, Spring Fair, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Student-Related News, University-Related
In the largest commitment to solar energy in Maryland and one of the most significant pledges to greenhouse gas reduction in higher education, Johns Hopkins University has entered into a long-term agreement to supply its campuses with more than 250,000 megawatt hours of solar power per year.
April 22, 2019 Tags: carbon emissions, Constellation, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, solar, solar energy
| Category: Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
A political scientist who dedicated her career to understanding civic and political participation will now work to advance them as inaugural director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She starts July 1.
April 4, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University students will no longer need a campus identification card to get into their dorms, pay for pizza or do laundry. Starting this week, a flash of their iPhone or Apple Watch will handle all of that and more as the university becomes the fifth in the country to offer students the option to add their campus ID to Apple Wallet.
March 28, 2019 Tags: Apple Wallet, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
