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 Blue Jay mascot debuted a new look during a dramatic reveal today at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 16, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, Uncategorized, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University’s Blue Jay mascot will debut a new look during a dramatic reveal Saturday at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 15, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, University-Related
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
The more crime that occurs along a student’s way to school, the higher the likelihood that student will be absent, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, crime, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, school commute
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
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
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Chanapa Tantibanchachai Office: 443-997-5056 / Cell: 928-458-9656 chanapa@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Before the age of GPS, humans had to orient themselves without on-screen arrows pointing down an exact street, but rather, by memorizing landmarks and using learned relationships among time, speed and distance. They had to know, for instance, that […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: brain, James Knierim, location, Manu Madhav, memory, neuroscience, Noah Cowan, Ravi Jayakumar
| Category: biology, Engineering
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
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shani McPherson Office: 410-516-4778 Cell: 510-393-7159 sprovos1@jhu.edu WHAT: More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: Engineering, event, HopHacks, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Technology
The Curiosity Rover may have been ambling around the Gale Crater on Mars for nearly seven years but a group at Johns Hopkins University has just found a way to use it for something new: making the first surface gravity measurements on a planet other than Earth.
January 31, 2019 Tags: Curiosity Rover, gravity, Johns Hopkins University, Kevin Lewis, Mars
| Category: Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized
China, already the world’s leading emitter of human-caused greenhouse gases, continues to pump increasing amounts of climate-changing methane into the atmosphere despite tough new regulations on gas releases from its coal mines, a new Johns Hopkins study shows.
January 29, 2019 Tags: climate change, emissions, Engineering, environment, global warming, greenhouse gases, methane, Scot Miller
| Category: Engineering, Environment
Beginning Feb. 1, the Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood Museum will replace its traditional guided tour with one that gives equal focus to two enslaved families, the Conners and the Rosses, who supported Homewood’s original family, Charles and Harriet Carroll. All tours will be free in February.
January 28, 2019 Tags: Charles and Harriet Carroll, enslavement, history, Homewood Museum, museum, slavery
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University’s statement regarding the agreement reached between the university and the Freedom Forum, the creator and principal funder of the Newseum.
January 25, 2019 Tags: 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, D.C., Freedom Forum, Johns Hopkins University, Newseum, real estate, Washington
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
A 32-year-old Greek woman is reportedly pregnant from an experimental reproductive technique that uses DNA from three people, the result of the first known clinical trial to use the controversial procedure to treat infertility.
Jeffrey Kahn, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Berman Institute of Bioethics, who chaired a 2016 U.S. National Academy of Sciences panel that examined the science and ethical issues raised by the three-parent procedure, is available to discuss the implications of this new pregnancy and the procedure, known as mitochondrial replacement therapy, which is banned in the United States.
January 24, 2019 Tags: Berman Institute of Bioethics, bioethics, biology, Jeffrey Kahn, medicine
| Category: biology, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute will sponsor a PBS NewsHour event Divided Nation, United States, to try to uncover how these governors work with their legislatures, relate to their constituents, and define success.
January 15, 2019 Tags: Divided Nation, Johns Hopkins University, partisanship, PBS NewsHour, politics, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, United States
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Demi Lovato’s drug overdose and Anthony Bourdain’s suicide resulted in unequal news coverage of national help hotlines, finds a new study published Jan. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
January 14, 2019 Tags: celebrity, computer engineering, drug overdose, Google, Mark Dredze, media, news coverage, substance abuse, suicide, Twitter, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology
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
