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.
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
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
A diverse array of activists is slated to visit Johns Hopkins University this semester as part of the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium. This year’s theme is “Disrupt.”
February 11, 2019 Tags: Foreign Affairs Symposium, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
A diverse and talented group of 641 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 2023.
December 14, 2018 Tags: Class of 2023, early decision, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Oct. 13, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
October 11, 2018 Tags: Baltimore, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
About 1,500 students will claim their degrees Thursday, May 24, at the commencement ceremony for all of Johns Hopkins University’s divisions and campuses.
May 22, 2018 Tags: 2018, Bryan A. Stevenson, Commencement, George Lucas, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Sixteen Johns Hopkins University students and recent graduates have been awarded grants, earning the chance to travel abroad to study, teach and conduct research.
May 21, 2018 Tags: Fulbright, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University-Related
Media Advisory: Johns Hopkins alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends are volunteering at 13 sites in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., on Saturday, May 5.
May 2, 2018 Tags: community service, Development and Alumni Relations, Johns Hopkins in Action
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University, Lockheed Martin and Barclay Elementary/Middle School will come together for an evening designed to showcase the science and engineering projects that students have been working on in the classroom all year.
April 17, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, science and technology education, STEM programs, STEN
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Student-Related News, Technology
Engineering undergraduates have developed an anti-bleeding “super gel” that can be delivered with a catheter but is hyper-absorbent enough to then swell with blood, creating a clot to block any bleeding.
April 17, 2018 Tags: materials science, student design competition, undergraduate research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Student-Related News
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Johns Hopkins University team that includes biomedical engineering faculty and graduate students, global health experts and technology specialists will receive a $100,000 grant to support their plan to enable mothers in remote villages to use novel, low-cost sensors and a simple cell phone app to spot serious health problems during their newborn babies’ critical first week. The university’s NeMo team, short for Neonatal Monitoring, was named as one of 51 new Grand Challenges Explorations winners in an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
November 15, 2017 Tags: bioengineering, biomedical engineering, global health projects, medical sensors, neonatal monitoring, newborn health
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News, Technology
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, the last Republican candidate in the race for his party’s nomination against Donald Trump, will speak at Johns Hopkins University.
November 10, 2017 Tags: John Kasich, Johns Hopkins University, MSE Symposium
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Uncategorized, University-Related
On Halloween night, from their haunted hiding places beneath Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, scary skeletons will come to life in the dark depths of Hackerman Hall—and begin to dance!
October 27, 2017 Tags: anatomy, augmented reality, Halloween, medical training, skeletons
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
A Johns Hopkins student team that wants to help people breathe easier has scored a coveted finalist spot in the 2017 Collegiate Inventors Competition, organizers of the event have announced. The students devised a simple, discreet device to open obstructed nostrils, a common problem that can cause snoring and other sleep disruptions, as well as exercising difficulties.
September 27, 2017 Tags: biomedical devices, biomedical engineering, ENT tools, nasal obstructions, student design competition
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
September 21, 2017 CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 / Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Painting, gardening and beautifying city neighborhoods. These are just a few of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help Baltimore on Saturday, Sept. 23, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 local […]
September 21, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
The governor of Ohio, a comedian and Daily Show correspondent, and one of MSNBC’s most popular hosts are among the speakers who will visit Johns Hopkins University this fall as part of the annual Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium.
September 20, 2017 Tags: Hasan Minhaj, John Kasich, Johns Hopkins University, Joy Ann Reid, MSE Symposium, Women’s March
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
Sunday, Aug. 27, is “Baltimore Day” during orientation for first-year students at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. Members of the class of 2021 will learn about the city and how to get around, visit city neighborhoods and institutions, and enjoy a Baltimore-themed cookout dinner.
August 24, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City, Baltimore Day, Orientation
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
