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.
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.
Inaugural BLocal Effort Drives Millions of Dollars Into Baltimore
May 15, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, Economic Inclusion, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration
Johns Hopkins Announces Major Solar Power Commitment
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
JHU’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Announces Inaugural Director
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 Exceeds Investment Goals for Build, Hire, Buy in Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University and Health System announced today that the institution has surpassed its three-year goals for hiring, purchasing and construction contracting.
February 21, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, Economic Inclusion, HopkinsLocal, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
Astrophysicist Brice Ménard receives President’s Frontier Award
Many astronomy researchers benefit from sky surveys containing millions of stars and galaxies observed by telescopes. But Brice Ménard’s colleagues say his imagination and insight make him particularly adept at discovering the universal secrets hidden in a daunting amount of data. Ménard, an astrophysicist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, has received this year’s $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to support his exploration of astronomical data.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Brice Ménard, President Ronald J. Daniels, President's Frontier Award
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University Administration, University-Related
Longtime Federal Policy Expert Joins JHU
Cybele Bjorklund, a longtime federal health policy leader, has been appointed vice president for federal strategy, a new position for Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. She joins the university March 1 and will be based in Washington, D.C.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Cybele Bjorklund, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
MEDIA ADVISORY: Saturday 10th Anniversary for Johns Hopkins Baltimore Service Day
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
Johns Hopkins Effort to Promote Economic Growth in Baltimore Exceeds Expectations
It pays to be a business in Baltimore. That’s the message that Johns Hopkins wants proprietors and their patrons to know as part of the institution’s HopkinsLocal initiative to support and invest in local enterprises.
May 9, 2018 Tags: Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
Pratt, Lenox named managing directors for Johns Hopkins Investment Office
Joanna D. Pratt and Christopher J. Lenox, both experienced investors and university endowment portfolio managers, are joining the Johns Hopkins University as managing directors in its Office of Investments.
April 17, 2018 Tags: chief investment officer, Christopher Lenox, endowment, Jason Perlioni, Joanna Pratt, Office of Investments
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University Statement on New Public Safety Initiative
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
Police Commander Melissa Hyatt Joins Johns Hopkins as Security Vice President
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
Coalition Seeks to Increase Transparency on Life Science Career Prospects
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
University Statement on Divestment from Major Coal Producers
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
MEDIA ADVISORY: More Than 1,000 at JHU Ready for Baltimore Service Day
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
MacKenzie Named Dean of Public Health
Ellen J. MacKenzie, an expert on improving trauma care systems and policy and a nationally renowned researcher, veteran academic leader, and Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1979, will be the 11th dean of the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
August 4, 2017 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ellen MacKenzie, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University Administration, University-Related
Update on the Death of Abigail Bastien
Johns Hopkins University leaders sent an email message on Friday, July 14, providing Homewood campus students with an update regarding the recent death of rising sophomore Abigail Bastien. This is the text of the message.
July 14, 2017 Tags: Abigail Bastien, Daniel Ennis, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Affirmation of Leading Research Universities’ Commitment to Progress on Climate Change
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
Ridge Named Vice President for Communications
Susan Ridge, the chief marketing officer at Save the Children, has been appointed vice president for communications of the Johns Hopkins University.
May 8, 2017 Tags: Office of Communications, Ronald J. Daniels, Susan Ridge
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Makes Progress in Goal to Build, Hire and Buy Locally
The Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System hired 304 workers from Baltimore’s distressed neighborhoods and campus-area communities and committed $55.5 million of construction project spending with minority- and women-owned or disadvantaged businesses in the first year of their HopkinsLocal initiative, according to a progress report released today.
March 9, 2017 Tags: HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
MEDIA ADVISORY: HopkinsLocal One-Year Progress Report
Ronald J. Daniels, President of Johns Hopkins University and Ronald R. Peterson, President of the Health System and Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, will discuss the progress that has been made with HopkinsLocal, the initiative developed by Johns Hopkins to promote its commitment to build, hire and buy locally.
March 9, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: University Administration, University-Related
Perlioni Named Johns Hopkins Chief Investment Officer
Jason T. Perlioni, chief investment officer of Pritzker Group Asset Management, has been appointed vice president, investments, and chief investment officer of the Johns Hopkins University
February 28, 2017 Tags: chief investment officer, Daniel Ennis, endowment, Jason Perlioni
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
President, Wife, Create Student Aid Endowment
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels and his wife, faculty member Joanne Rosen, are establishing a $1 million financial aid endowment for undergraduates at the university who are among the first in their families to attend college.
February 23, 2017 Tags: endowment, Financial aid, Joanne Rosen, philanthropy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Message from the President and Provost Regarding Federal Immigration Action
Johns Hopkins University leaders sent an email message on Saturday, Jan. 28, in response to the executive order on immigration issued a day earlier by President Donald Trump.
January 30, 2017 Tags: Donald Trump, immigration, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Retired Sen. Barbara Mikulski to Join University Faculty
Barbara A. Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress and Maryland’s longest-tenured U.S. senator, will join the Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 16 as a professor of public policy and presidential adviser.
January 12, 2017 Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Political Science, Public Policy, Ronald J. Daniels, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Libraries, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Joins Alliance to Expand College Access For 50,000 Talented Lower-income Students
The Johns Hopkins University is joining 29 other colleges and universities to expand by at least 50,000 the number of talented low- and moderate-income students at the U.S. undergraduate institutions with the highest graduation rates.
December 13, 2016 Tags: American Talent Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, Uncategorized, University Administration