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.
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.
Gambling Monkeys Help Scientists Find Brain Area Linked to High-Risk Behavior
Monkeys who learned how to gamble have helped researchers pinpoint an area of the brain key to one’s willingness to make risky decisions.
World-renowned architect Renzo Piano to design SNF Agora Institute building
Renzo Piano, winner of architecture’s most prestigious prizes and creator of masterpiece buildings on five continents, will design the headquarters of the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at the Johns Hopkins University.
New Johns Hopkins Doctor of Engineering Program Designed for Working Professionals
Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering has created a doctoral engineering program to serve the needs of working engineering professionals and to meet the growing demand for engineers who have the advanced knowledge needed to solve challenging problems.
ADVISORY: At JHU This Weekend, Students to Hack to Improve City Life
More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University for the latest 36-hour HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to come up with software and hardware ideas.
Baltimore Students to Take ‘Wakanda Challenge’ at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Event
At the annual meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the nation’s largest gathering of black elected officials, about 100 students from Baltimore City’s Dunbar High School will participate in an event called the STEAM Revolt Youth Workshop: Wakanda Design Challenge. In this interactive contest, students, who are part of Dunbar’s P-TECH college prep program, will create a new Avengers superhero with ties to African culture.
JHU Partners with Tsinghua for New Engineering Graduate Program
A new program will allow students to earn graduate degrees from both the Johns Hopkins University’s top-ranked Department of Biomedical Engineering and the world’s No. 1 engineering school, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.
Keeping it cool: The Parker Solar Probe’s high-performance heat shield
Media advisory: Background for reporters on the heat shield that will protect NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as it swoops through the solar atmosphere, less than 4 million miles from the surface of the sun.
Johns Hopkins University Leads New Research Partnership
Johns Hopkins University has been awarded up to $30 million to lead a consortium of three Mid-Atlantic universities that will work together on research projects with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Where Martian Dust Comes From
The dust that coats much of the surface of Mars originates largely from a single thousand-kilometer-long geological formation near the Red Planet’s equator, scientists have found.
JHU Project Aims to Save Millions by Reducing Solar Power Forecast Errors
Although the popularity of solar energy has surged, the unpredictability of a weather-dependent technology has kept even more people from embracing it. A new Johns Hopkins University-led project hopes to change that by improving our ability to forecast sunshine and backup power needs.
Johns Hopkins-Taiwan Team Up in Cross-Cultural Doctoral Program
A new partnership between the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will bring students from that country to Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus to pursue doctoral studies in engineering beginning in August 2019.
New ‘E-Dermis’ Brings Sense of Touch, Pain to Prosthetic Hands
Engineers have created an electronic skin, aiming to restore a real sense of touch for amputees using prosthetic hands.
Urban Violence Can Hurt Test Scores Even for Kids Who Don’t Experience It
Children who attend school with many kids from violent neighborhoods show significantly lower test scores than peers with classmates from safer areas, according to a new Johns Hopkins University study.
Evidence for New Property of Quantum Matter Revealed
A theorized but never-before detected property of quantum matter has now been spotted in the lab at Johns Hopkins.
Szalay to lead what could become world’s largest scientific data storage network
Johns Hopkins University’s Alex Szalay will lead a two-year national effort to begin building a network allowing scientists to more efficiently store and analyze huge caches of data and share them with other researchers.
Science and Health News Tips from Johns Hopkins
News tips for reporters from stories in the spring 2018 issue of Johns Hopkins Magazine.
New Computational Strategy Designed for More Personalized Cancer Treatment
Mathematicians and cancer scientists have found a way to simplify complex biomolecular data about tumors, in principle making it easier to prescribe the appropriate treatment for a specific patient.
City Elementary/Middle Students to Show Off Their STEM Inventions
Students from nine Baltimore City elementary/middle schools will show off creations they conceived and built—some as part of classroom assignments, and others in response to challenges they encounter in their own communities.
Mikulski Statement on the Death of Kevin Kamenetz
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 Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz: