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.
More than 300 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete Saturday in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 10, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup, K-12 Education, K-12 science competition, Robotics, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
Johns Hopkins study sheds light on brain basis of risk-taking behavior January 7, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Chanapa Tantibanchachai Office: 443-997-9009/ Cell: 928-458-9656 chanapa@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Picture yourself at a Las Vegas poker table, holding a bad hand – one with a very low chance of winning. Even so, the sight of the large stack […]
January 7, 2019 Tags: biomedical engineering, decision-making, gambling, Pierre Sacré, risk, Sridevi Sarma
| Category: Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University has been awarded more than $600,000 to offer summer research experiences for undergraduates from backgrounds underrepresented in science and whose own colleges and universities offer limited chances to work on original research.
January 7, 2019 Tags: Amgen Foundation, Joel Schildbach, STEM, underrepresented minorities
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Fundraising, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Johns Hopkins employees, alumni, students and friends will attend the annual Christmas Eve graveside observance honoring the founder of the university and health system, Mr. Johns Hopkins. This year’s event marks the 145th anniversary of Mr. Hopkins’ death.
December 20, 2018 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Mr. Johns Hopkins, Ross Jones
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
When improved antidepressants hit the market in the 1980s, heavy drinking among people with depression dropped 22 percent, suggesting people who knowingly use drugs and alcohol to relieve mental and physical pain will switch to safer, better treatment options when they can get them, a new Johns Hopkins University study found.
December 17, 2018 Tags: alcohol abuse, antidepressants, depression, drug dependency, Michael Darden, NBER, Nicholas Papageorge, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in research and development spending for the 39th straight year in fiscal year 2017, spending a record $2.562 billion on projects like enhancing drone safety, growing retinas in the lab to find out how color vision is developed, and improving methods of studying cell mechanics to advance cancer research.
December 17, 2018 Tags: academic research, Denis Wirtz, federally financed R&D, National Science Foundation, NSF, R&D, research support
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
In their search for life in solar systems near and far, researchers have often accepted the presence of oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere as the surest sign that life may be present there. A new Johns Hopkins study, however, recommends a reconsideration of that rule of thumb.
December 17, 2018 Tags: exoplanets, Sarah Horst, space
| Category: Chemistry, Earth Science, Physics and Astronomy
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
The speed and distance at which planets orbit their respective blazing stars can determine each planet’s fate—whether the planet remains a longstanding part of its solar system or evaporates into the universe’s dark graveyard more quickly.
In their quest to learn more about far-away planets beyond our own solar system, astronomers discovered that a medium-sized planet roughly the size of Neptune, GJ 3470b, is evaporating at a rate 100 times faster than a previously discovered planet of similar size, GJ 436b.
December 13, 2018 Tags: astronomy, David Sing, exoplanets, Hubble Space Telescope, NASA, space, Space Telescope Science Institute
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
Aleph Farms of Israel announced today unveiled the world’s first lab-grown steak, a steak grown in a petri dish that has the taste and texture of one that comes from a real cow. Other companies are also racing to perfect various versions of lab-grown meat. Jan Dutkiewicz, a postdoctoral fellow in political science at Johns Hopkins University who has researched the emergence of cellular agriculture, or “lab-grown meat,” and its potential to transform the American food landscape, is available to talk about the new steak and offer perspective on the development.
December 12, 2018 Tags: Jan Dutkiewicz, lab-grown meat, steak
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Technology, Uncategorized
Americans trust their state governments to handle issues as important as education and health care and pay them more than a trillion dollars in taxes annually, yet we know very little about these institutions, a new Johns Hopkins University survey finds.
December 11, 2018 Tags: Benjamin Ginsberg, Jennifer Bachner, Johns Hopkins University, state government, survey
| Category: Government and Politics, Uncategorized
Retired U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., a Homewood Professor at Johns Hopkins University, today issued the following statement on the passing of former President George H.W. Bush.
December 3, 2018 Tags: Barbara Mikulski, George H.W. Bush, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Social Sciences
The constant movement of fish that seems random is actually precisely deployed to provide them at any moment with the best sensory feedback they need any to navigate the world, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
November 29, 2018 Tags: active sensing, electric fish, Johns Hopkins University, Noah Cowan
| Category: biology, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Technology
Michael R. Bloomberg and Johns Hopkins University announced an unprecedented $1.8 billion philanthropic commitment, representing the largest ever contribution to an academic institution in American history. The historic gift will be devoted exclusively to undergraduate financial aid at one of the world’s leading education, research and patient care institutions, allowing Johns Hopkins University to permanently commit to need-blind admissions and ensure unparalleled educational opportunities for the next generation of global leaders.
November 18, 2018 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Michael R. Bloomberg
| Category: Giving, Institutional News, University-Related
Having one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more likely to graduate high school, it makes them significantly more likely to enroll in college.
November 12, 2018 Tags: college, Education, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, one black teacher, race, teaching
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
November 12, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Coppin State University, diversity, Morgan State University, post-doctoral fellows, School of Medicine, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
Johns Hopkins Engineering has launched a new online master’s degree program in healthcare systems engineering. Approved by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the new program is now accepting applications for the spring 2019 semester.
November 9, 2018 Tags: Engineering, healthcare systems engineering, Johns Hopkins University, online master's degree program
| Category: Engineering
Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang.
November 5, 2018 Tags: Big Bang, Johns Hopkins University, Kevin Schlaufman, low mass, low metal, Milky Way’s “thin disk”, physics and astronomy, stars
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
By studying barn owls, scientists at Johns Hopkins University believe they’ve taken an important step toward solving the longstanding mystery of how the brain chooses what most deserves attention.
October 30, 2018 Tags: ADHD, attention, Johns Hopkins University, owls, Shreesh Mysore
| Category: Natural Sciences, Psychology
At holiday buffets and potlucks people make quick calculations about which dishes to try and how much to take of each. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have found a brain region that appears to be strongly connected to these food preference decisions.
October 19, 2018 Tags: brain, David Ottenheimer, food preference, Johns Hopkins University, neuroscience, Patricia H. Janak
| Category: Natural Sciences, Psychology
Six faculty members from the Johns Hopkins University have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
October 15, 2018 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Academy of Medicine, School of Medicine
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retinas from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.
October 11, 2018 Tags: color vision, developmental biology, Johns Hopkins University, Kiara Eldred, photoreceptors, retinas, Robert Johnston
| Category: Natural Sciences
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
Landlords in disadvantaged communities are so unsettled by increasing water bills and nuisance fees they are taking it out their tenants, threatening the housing security of those who need it most, a new Johns Hopkins University study concludes.
October 1, 2018 Tags: inequality, Johns Hopkins University, landlords, Meredith Greif, Water bills
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Monkeys who learned how to gamble have helped researchers pinpoint an area of the brain key to one’s willingness to make risky decisions.
September 20, 2018 Tags: brain, gambling, Johns Hopkins University, Monkeys, risky behavior, Veit Stuphorn, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
| Category: biology, Natural Sciences, Psychology
