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.
Trillions of cicadas are poised to get their buzz on across much of the United States, with the once-every-17-year emergence of Brood X. Hope you’re hungry!
One person’s infestation is another’s free eco-friendly lunch, according to Johns Hopkins University sustainable food expert Jessica Fanzo, author of the forthcoming Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
Fanzo, who plans to collect and eat cicadas herself as soon as they hit her own backyard, can explain how the insects have as much protein as red or other factory-farmed meat, but without the harsh environmental effects, including greenhouse gases and biodiversity loss.
May 13, 2021 Tags: alternative protein, cicadas, climate change, eating insects, environment, factory farming, Jessica Fanzo
| Category: Environment, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected on Friday to release guidance on the safe reopening of schools. Johns Hopkins University experts, including experts from the university’s Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, which has been studying the complex question of what it will take for the nation to safely return students to school, will be available for perspective and commentary on the CDC update.
February 11, 2021 Tags: Annette C. Anderson, CDC, Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, COVID-19, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Odis Johnson, Pandemic, school re-opening
| Category: Education/K-12, Public policy
history than ever before. However, ongoing analysis from Johns Hopkins University finds these efforts often fail, because coursework emphasizes the negative aspects of African American life while omitting important contributions made by families of color in literature, politics, theology, art, and medicine.
February 10, 2021 Tags: African-American, Ashley Rogers Berner, Black history, Black History Month, Black Lives Matter, high school curriculum, Institute for Education Policy
| Category: Education/K-12, Public policy
Faster commuter trains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. could have a profound economic impact on Maryland’s largest city by attracting an influx of District residents that could spur more neighborhood redevelopment and by giving Charm City residents easier access to higher paying jobs in the nation’s capital.
February 3, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, commuter train, development, economy, high-speed rail
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public policy, Social Sciences
The lack of reliable access to broadband internet service for many in Baltimore, particularly the poor, has profound economic and social consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this painfully clear with an abrupt shift to online learning, remote work, and telemedicine. A new analysis from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative says the city could move towards digital equity, with a roadmap of recommendations built on existing knowledge of Baltimore’s digital assets and the experience of other cities.
January 25, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, broadband, COVID-19, digital equity, Internet, Johns Hopkins University, Mac McComas, Mary Miller, Pandemic
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, Technology
With the pandemic surging to record levels in the United States, Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Resource Center will launch bi-weekly webcast briefings featuring updates and insights from the university’s top COVID-19 experts beginning this Friday, November 20.
November 18, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, experts, Johns Hopkins 30-Minute COVID-19 Briefing, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
A virtual fireside chat with Anthony Fauci will launch the Johns Hopkins University’s Health Policy Forum, a new quarterly series of discussions providing a platform for JHU students, faculty, staff, and alumni to engage in dialogues with Washington leaders around interdisciplinary health policy issues.
October 12, 2020 Tags: Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, Ellen MacKenzie, Fauci, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University’s Health Policy Forum, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, Public policy, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
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
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
Janet Yellen’s term as chair of the Federal Reserve is slated to end in February 2018. Speculation is underway about who President Donald Trump might choose to be her successor in the highly influential role leading the central bank of the United States.
Johns Hopkins University has several experts available, all with extensive media commentating experience, to discuss this and any news related to The Fed.
October 19, 2017 Tags: Alessandro Rebucci, economics, Economics experts, Experts on The Fed, Federal Reserve, Financial market experts, Janet Yellen, Johns Hopkins University, Jon Faust, Jonathan Wright, Laurence Ball, Robert Barbera, The Fed
| Category: Business and Economics, Public policy
Baltimore City Public Schools in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University has adopted a program to strengthen science, technology, engineering and math instruction in the district’s elementary schools.
September 12, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, elementary school, Next Generation Science Standards, STEM
| Category: Education/K-12, JHU Community Connections, Public policy, Uncategorized
Johns Hopkins University has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability and mitigating the effects of climate change, joining 11 other leading research colleges and universities.
June 5, 2017 Tags: climate, climate change, global climate change, global warming, Ronald J. Daniels, sustainability
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
Living in subsidized housing seems to give a boost to children with high standardized test scores and few behavior problems, but it has the opposite effect on students who score poorly and have behavioral issues, a new study finds.
November 29, 2016 Tags: affordable housing, assisted housing, low-income families, Sandra J. Newman, standardized test scores, Subsidized housing
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Public Health, Public policy, Social Sciences
On Monday, April 4, Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels and BGE Chief Executive Officer Calvin Butler will announce a major new economic inclusion initiative by 26 Baltimore companies. The two leaders will be joined by Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, OneBaltimore Chairman Michael Cryor, and President of The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System Ronald Peterson.
April 1, 2016 | Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University led U.S. higher education in research and development for the 36th straight year, spending a record $2.242 billion in fiscal 2014 to expand scientific knowledge, find cures for disease, promote health and advance technology.
December 9, 2015 Tags: National Science Foundation, R&D, research and development, research support, technology transfer
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University-Related
The Obama administration is enlisting help from the Johns Hopkins University in a just-announced initiative to reduce chronic absenteeism in public schools by at least 10 percent a year.
October 7, 2015 Tags: Center for Social Organization of Schools, Everyone Graduates Center, K-12 Education, Robert Balfanz, School of Education
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Public policy
The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System today unveiled an ambitious new initiative designed to use their purchasing and hiring power to strengthen Baltimore, promoting economic growth and job opportunities for residents, particularly those living in distressed areas of the city.
September 30, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
In its efforts to curb criminal activity, should the government be allowed to see confidential consumer data collected by businesses? Or does the right to privacy trump such intrusions? These complex questions will be the focus of the second annual Senior Executive Cyber Security Conference, to be held Thursday, Sept. 10, at Johns Hopkins University. Registration for the daylong event is under way.
August 4, 2015 Tags: computer security, cyber attacks, cyber security, cybersecurity, data breaches, data privacy, information security
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Government and Politics, Public policy, Technology
Reporters and columnists are invited to cover a one-day conference for universities, medical centers and other large nonprofits that use their knowledge, influence and financial clout to promote jobs, better education and community development in their home areas.
December 3, 2013 Tags: anchor institutions, Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School, HCPI, Henderson-Hopkins School, Homewood Community Partners Initiative
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
A three-judge panel of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals has ruled that the university’s proposed development of the former Belward Farm in Montgomery County is in full compliance with the university’s agreement with its former owners and is not limited “in terms of scale or density or ownership structure.”
November 22, 2013 Tags: Belward, Belward Research Campus
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins professor of computer science and director of the university’s Health and Medical Security Lab, testified Nov. 19 before the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology at a hearing titled, “Is Your Data on Healthcare.gov Secure?” In a prepared statement submitted to the panel, Rubin said, “HealthCare.gov does not collect nor store Electronic Medical Records, but it does collect whatever personal information is needed for enrollment. This information, in the wrong hands, could potentially be used for identity theft attacks.”
November 20, 2013 Tags: computer security, HealthCare.gov, identity theft, Obamacare, personal data, Web security
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, Public policy, Technology
The debate over American health care didn’t end with the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Now that the law is in place and its provisions are slowly becoming reality, the discussion has shifted to questions regarding whether the benefits are worth the costs, and whether we will actually be a healthier nation once every citizen has health insurance. Johns Hopkins University health economist Douglas E. Hough hopes his new book, which looks at the state of American health care through the lens of behavioral economics, will be helpful in framing this new wave of discourse in a more productive way.
May 8, 2013 Tags: Affordable Care Act, behavioral economics, health care, health care debate, health care economics
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Public policy
A summit of more than 20 of the world’s leading gun policy experts has identified research-based policies to reduce gun violence in the United States. The policy recommendations were the result of a two-day Summit on gun violence convened by The Johns Hopkins University on January 14 and 15, The Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis.
January 15, 2013 Tags: firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America concludes today [Tuesday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 15, 2013 Tags: Adam Winkler, Colleen Barry, firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy, Philip Alpers
| Category: Government and Politics, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America convenes today [Monday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast today and tomorrow for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 14, 2013 Tags: Christopher Koper, Daniel Webster, firearms, gun policy, guns, Jeffrey Swanson, jhugunpolicy, Martin O'Malley, Michael R. Bloomberg, Stephen Teret
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
