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.
Faster commuter trains between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. could have a profound economic impact on Maryland’s largest city by attracting an influx of District residents that could spur more neighborhood redevelopment and by giving Charm City residents easier access to higher paying jobs in the nation’s capital.
February 3, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, commuter train, development, economy, high-speed rail
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public policy, Social Sciences
The lack of reliable access to broadband internet service for many in Baltimore, particularly the poor, has profound economic and social consequences. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this painfully clear with an abrupt shift to online learning, remote work, and telemedicine. A new analysis from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative says the city could move towards digital equity, with a roadmap of recommendations built on existing knowledge of Baltimore’s digital assets and the experience of other cities.
January 25, 2021 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, broadband, COVID-19, digital equity, Internet, Johns Hopkins University, Mac McComas, Mary Miller, Pandemic
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, Technology
Leaders representing about 45 U.S. cities and urban scholars will convene to discuss new research on critical issues for metro areas during the 21st Century Neighborhoods: Research. Leadership. Transformation symposium, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
December 1, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Barbara Mikulski, cities, crime, Economic segregation, Johns Hopkins University, Lester K. Spence, nal Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color, Pat Sharkey, Racial wealth gap, urban issues, violence
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences, University-Related
Public, private, academic, and nonprofit leaders from Baltimore and elsewhere in Maryland will gather to discuss strategies for strengthening Baltimore’s financing system for small companies, following a new report from Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
October 13, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, Small business
| Category: Business and Economics
Baltimore, a city with clear economic assets and competitive advantages, should have a more robust financing system to cultivate a range of startups and small businesses, concludes a new report by Johns Hopkins University’s 21st Century Cities Initiative.
September 28, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore, Ben Seigel, financing, Small business
| Category: Business and Economics
Leading national and local voices on economic inclusion will gather at Johns Hopkins University to discuss the role of the private sector in expanding opportunity, including specific policies and strategies that have been implemented in Baltimore and elsewhere
May 15, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Calvin G. Butler Jr., Economic Inclusion, Johns Hopkins University, Mayor Catherine Pugh, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
A year after the unrest in Baltimore sparked by the arrest and tragic death of Freddie Gray, Johns Hopkins University is launching an art and conversation series to reflect on deep-rooted discrimination in the city and what the community can do about it.
March 24, 2016 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Redlining Baltimore
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Social Sciences, University-Related
A “Ferguson effect” likely decelerated arrests in Baltimore well before the April 2015 unrest related to the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, but there is little evidence to suggest it influenced the city’s crime rate, a new report concludes.
March 15, 2016 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, crime, Ferguson effect, Freddie Gray, Johns Hopkins University, Police, Stephen L. Morgan
| Category: Social Sciences
Ben Seigel, a Baltimore native who helped design the Obama Administration’s place-based strategy and led the federal government’s effort to address deep-rooted issues in Baltimore after last year’s unrest, has joined a Johns Hopkins University project to strengthen cities with similar urban challenges.
January 27, 2016 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Social Sciences, University-Related
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed funds to launch a Johns Hopkins University effort helping cities use data to run more effective operations and fix urban problems.
April 20, 2015 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Beth Blauer, Center for Government Excellence, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sharon Paley
| Category: Giving, Government and Politics, University-Related
Outgoing Maryland governor Martin O’Malley will join the Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School Feb. 2 as a visiting professor focusing on government, business and urban issues.
January 16, 2015 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Carey Business School, Martin O'Malley
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Government and Politics, University-Related
