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.
The Johns Hopkins University and Lockheed Martin today announced a partnership aimed at enhancing opportunities for Baltimore City public school students pursuing academic and career fields in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The collaboration is designed to close the STEM gap that exists primarily in Pre-K through 12th grade.
April 16, 2018 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, engineering and science education, Johns Hopkins-Baltimore City Public Schools partnership, Lockheed Martin, STEM programs
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
Carol Tyler, the acclaimed creator of the graphic trilogy You’ll Never Know, will speak at Johns Hopkins University.
April 12, 2018 Tags: Carol Tyler, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Parkinson’s disease, a progressive brain disorder, is often tough to treat effectively because symptoms, such as tremors and walking difficulties, can vary dramatically over a period of days, or even hours. To address this challenge, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists, working with an interdisciplinary team of experts from two other institutions, have developed a new approach that uses sensors on a smartphone to generate a score that reliably reflects symptom severity in patients with Parkinson’s disease.
April 5, 2018 Tags: brain disorders, computer science, machine learning, neurological diseases, Parkinson's disease, smartphone apps
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
Lawyer and social justice activist Bryan A. Stevenson, who founded an organization that has helped more than 125 wrongly condemned people on death row, will speak at Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 24.
April 3, 2018 Tags: Bryan A. Stevenson, Commencement, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
The JHU Forums on Race in America will present a panel discussion, “Six Months after Maria: Public Health Issues in Puerto Rico.”
March 26, 2018 Tags: JHU Forums on Race in America, Johns Hopkins University, Puerto Rico
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Maryland Girl Scouts will learn about the physics involved in how roller coasters work and what it takes to be an engineer. Then, the scout troops will design and build their own mini roller coasters.
March 24, 2018 Tags: Girl Scouts, roller coasters, STEM education
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Student-Related News, Technology
The Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in research and development expenditures for the 38th consecutive year, spending $2.431 billion in fiscal year 2016.
March 22, 2018 Tags: Denis Wirtz, federally financed R&D, National Science Foundation, NSF, R&D, research expenditures
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Institutional News, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in biomedical engineering, nursing and medicine are once again among the country’s very best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report ranking of the nation’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 20, 2018 | Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, International Affairs, Medicine and Nursing, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University admitted 2,284 students to the Class of 2022 today, offering admission to a talented and diverse group of scholars that includes researchers, writers, creators, innovators, and social activists.
March 19, 2018 Tags: Class of 2022, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
The symposium will explore contemporary black marriage across legal, political, cultural, social, economic, and historical contexts. It brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, and policymakers who will address the current state of black intimate relationships in all of forms and orientations.
March 6, 2018 Tags: black Americans, Johns Hopkins University, marriage, slavery, symposium
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins said it fully supports legislation in the General Assembly that would give the university and other independent higher education institutions in Baltimore City the authority to enter into memoranda of understanding with the Baltimore Police Department to create university police departments.
March 6, 2018 Tags: campus safety and security, university police
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50. A conference featuring dozens of scholars and experts exploring race, segregation, and inequality 50 years after the release of the historic Kerner Commission Report.
February 27, 2018 Tags: inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Kerner Commission, race, Race & Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50
| Category: Business and Economics, Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
Melissa R. Hyatt, recently named colonel of homeland security and training for the Baltimore Police Department after other significant command assignments in a career of more than 20 years, has been appointed vice president for security for Johns Hopkins.
February 23, 2018 Tags: Baltimore Police, campus safety and security, Daniel Ennis, Keith Hill, Melissa Hyatt, Police, Robert Kasdin, vice president for security
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session. The event challenges students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash and other sponsored prizes.
February 16, 2018 Tags: computer applications, computer hardware, computer programming, computer science, hackathon
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Technology
During this year’s Super Bowl, K.T. Ramesh, a biomechanics expert at Johns Hopkins University, will pay more attention to the collateral damage that can occur during football games: head injuries. He is developing a technological tool to help better diagnose concussions and predict where related brain damage has likely occurred.
January 29, 2018 Tags: biomechanics, concussions, football, head injuries, sports medicine, Super Bowl
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Sports, Technology
On Saturday, Jan. 7, 2018, more than 200 elementary, middle and high school students from Baltimore City Public Schools will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League’s championship event at Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus..
January 26, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools students, Baltimore City Schools, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
Like The Great British Baking Show or the Cake Wrecks blog? Johns Hopkins University students enrolled in a new intersession course called “Cooking the Books” will experience a bit of both this week as they try to recreate desserts from 18th or 19th century recipes.
January 22, 2018 Tags: baking, cooking, intersession, Johns Hopkins University, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, rare books, recipes
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Libraries, Student-Related News
Legendary investor William H. “Bill” Miller III has committed a record $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy, believed to be by far the largest ever to a university philosophy program.
January 16, 2018 Tags: Beverly Wendland, Bill Miller, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, philanthropy, philosophy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, William Miller
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Santa’s helpers made a visit to the Port Deposit, Maryland, family this week, delivering a gift that promises to make their holiday season especially happy and bright: a walker that was custom-designed and constructed for the family’s smallest member by a group of Johns Hopkins engineering students.
December 22, 2017 Tags: custom-built walker, engineering students, mechancial engineering, special needs child
| Category: Engineering, Giving, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
On Dec. 23, Johns Hopkins employees, alumni, students and friends will attend the annual graveside observance honoring the founder of the university and health system, Mr. Johns Hopkins.
December 21, 2017 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Johns Hopkins history, Mr. Johns Hopkins, Ross Jones
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Twenty-five Baltimore-area companies that came together to help increase economic opportunities for local businesses and residents today announced that they not only met the goal they set for the three-year program, they surpassed it – in just the first year.
December 18, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, BLocal, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
An impressive group of 610 high school students who applied for early admission to Johns Hopkins University were offered admission today, making them the first members of the undergraduate Class of 2022.
December 15, 2017 Tags: admissions, early decision, Ellen Kim, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Student-Related News, University-Related
Nine U.S. research universities, incliuding Johns Hopkins, and a major cancer institute announced plans to give would-be life scientists clear, standardized data on graduate school admissions, education and training opportunities, and career prospects.
December 14, 2017 Tags: Coalition for Next Generation Life Science, graduate students, life sciences, postdocs, postdoctoral fellows
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University will divest from separately managed investments in thermal coal following a vote from its board of trustees.
December 12, 2017 Tags: board of trustees, divestment, endowment, investment management
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Leaders representing about 45 U.S. cities and urban scholars will convene to discuss new research on critical issues for metro areas during the 21st Century Neighborhoods: Research. Leadership. Transformation symposium, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
December 1, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Barbara Mikulski, cities, crime, Economic segregation, Johns Hopkins University, Lester K. Spence, nal Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Pat Sharkey, Racial wealth gap, urban issues, violence
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences, University-Related
