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 led U.S. universities in research and development spending for the 37th straight year in fiscal 2015, putting a record $2.306 billion into projects to cure disease, promote human health, advance technology and expand knowledge of the universe and ourselves.
December 7, 2016 Tags: academic research, Denis Wirtz, federally financed R&D, National Science Foundation, NSF, R&D, research support, technology transfer
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
JHU Forums on Race in America return for the 2016-17 academic year with a panel discussion, “The Next 50 years: Black Power’s Afterlife and the Struggle for Social Justice,” featuring writer and historian Robin Kelley, Baltimore-based political organizer Dayvon Love, and Salamishah Tillet, a scholar, activist, social critic, and media personality.
September 23, 2016 Tags: black power, JHU Forums on Race in America, Johns Hopkins, Nathan Connolly, race, social justice
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 24, as they volunteer en masse at more than 30 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 22, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Sunil Kumar, dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a widely published expert on operations management and research, has been appointed the 15th provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins University.
July 15, 2016 Tags: provost, Robert Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees has appointed Ronald J. Daniels to an additional five years as president, extending his tenure as leader of the institution through June 30, 2024.
July 7, 2016 Tags: Jeffrey H. Aronson, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
A group of Baltimore-area businesses today unveiled a sweeping new plan aimed at harnessing their collective influence to help strengthen the city and create opportunities for Baltimoreans.
April 4, 2016 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
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 is proud to announce a shift in its Baltimore Scholars Program to offer greater financial aid and more robust supports to high-achieving Baltimore City Public School graduates with significant financial need.
March 25, 2016 Tags: admissions, Baltimore City, Baltimore Scholars Program, David Phillips, Financial aid, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Paul Pineau, interim vice president and general counsel at the Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed to fill the position on a permanent basis.
March 7, 2016 Tags: Paul Pineau, Ronald J. Daniels, Vice President and General Counsel
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Young people in Baltimore City will have a chance to express themselves creatively and build their resumes with the launch of Johns Hopkins University’s youth filmmaking program.
December 21, 2015 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore City, Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program, Film & Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University Provost Robert C. Lieberman and the deans of the university’s schools sent a message today to the university’s students, faculty and staff announcing a new Faculty Diversity Initiative at Johns Hopkins. This is the text of that message.
November 30, 2015 Tags: Faculty Diversity Initiative, Robert C. Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels sent a message to the university community on Friday, Nov. 13, concerning protests at colleges and universities across the country and issues of race, diversity and inclusion at Johns Hopkins. This is the text of the message.
November 13, 2015 Tags: diversity, inclusion, race, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Surveying homeless youth, picking up trash and harvesting fruits and vegetables for the disadvantaged. These are just a few tasks more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will pursue on Saturday, Oct. 3, for more than three dozen Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 30, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, Johns Hopkins University, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
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
Jason Kravitz, a veteran communications and public affairs executive, has been appointed director of strategic communications and senior advisor in the Office of the President.
July 29, 2015 Tags: Jason Kravitz, Kerry Ates, Ronald J. Daniels, strategic communications
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels released a statement in reaction to the announcement today by Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., that she will not seek a sixth Senate term next year.
March 2, 2015 Tags: Ronald J. Daniels, U.S. Senatory Barbara Mikulski
| Category: University Administration, University-Related
Beverly Wendland, a distinguished biologist known for dedication to undergraduate and graduate students, commitment to diversity, and advocacy for innovative teaching and liberal arts education, has been appointed dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
February 12, 2015 Tags: Beverly Wendland, James B. Knapp Dean, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, University Administration, University-Related
A Johns Hopkins engineering professor who is coaxing stem cells into forming blood vessels that can nurture healthy tissue or starve cancer cells is the first recipient of a new university award that provides $250,000 in research funding. The inaugural President’s Frontier Award was announced Jan. 28 during a surprise presentation at recipient Sharon Gerecht’s lab on the university’s Homewood Campus in Baltimore. Gerecht is an associate professor in the Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.
January 28, 2015 Tags: biotechnology, blood vessels, faculty research awards, President's Frontier Award, Sharon Gerecht, stem cells
| Category: Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Technology, University Administration
The Johns Hopkins University today announced two new award programs that together will provide an additional $15 million to advance innovative faculty-led research over the next three years. The expanded university funding is aimed at promising early-career scholars and at organizers of ambitious research projects proposed by teams that involve more than one Johns Hopkins division or affiliate.
January 27, 2015 Tags: early-career scholars, faculty awards, Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards, Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards, research collaborations, research funding
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
America’s youngest scientists, increasingly losing research dollars, are leaving the academic biomedical workforce, a brain drain that poses grave risks for the future of science, according to an article published this week by Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels.
January 6, 2015 Tags: biomedical research, Johns Hopkins University, natural science, NIH, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, University Administration
President Ronald J. Daniels on Dec. 4 sent a message to students, faculty members and staff members at the university’s Homewood campus, commenting on sexual violence issues. This statement, a follow-up to previous messages on these issues, comes in the wake of the arrest by Baltimore police of two suspects in a sexual assault at an early November off-campus fraternity party.
December 4, 2014 Tags: alcohol abuse, fraternities, Ronald J. Daniels, sexual assault, sexual violence
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Painting Baltimore’s animal shelter, weeding city flowerbeds, planting native grasses for the National Aquarium and removing trash from the Stoney Run Stream Valley. These are just a few tasks more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will pursue on Saturday, Oct. 11, to help dozens of Baltimore’s non-profit organizations.
October 7, 2014 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels today announced a series of initiatives in conjunction with the university’s release of campus crime statistics for 2013.
October 1, 2014 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels today updated students, faculty, and staff on the recently released results of a survey about drinking on the campuses of nine Maryland colleges and universities and outlined the initial steps the university will take to address this “serious and urgent matter.”
August 19, 2014 Tags: alcohol abuse, drinking, Maryland College Alcohol Survey, Maryland Consortium, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University is joining the University of Maryland, George Washington University and Virginia Tech in a regional collaboration called Innovation Corps, designed to train faculty and student researchers to transform ideas into products and get them on the market..
June 11, 2014 Tags: Christy Wyskiel, entrepreneurship, I-Corps, National Science Foundation, NSF, T.E. Schlesinger, technology transfer
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
