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 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and building a citywide network to preserve Baltimore’s African American history, culture and arts.
January 13, 2021 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore Africana Archives Initiative, Billie Holiday Project for Liberations Arts, Immigration & Citizenship, Kali-Ahset Amen, Lawrence Jackson, Nathan Connolly, racism, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Arts and Humanities, JHU Community Connections, Libraries, Social Sciences
A summer program that gives area community college students an opportunity to bolster their academic confidence while conducting humanities research at Johns Hopkins University will expand with a new $1.8 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
January 23, 2020 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CCBC, Community College of Baltimore County, Humanities, Humanities Collaboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Natalie Strobach, summer program
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12
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
The Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources (CER) announced today the launch of an online database (http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/) describing the archival materials held by the Afro American Newspaper. The three-year project, administered jointly by CER and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies, was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Africana Studies, Franklin Knight, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Moira Hinderer, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded a $1.054 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to renew the Heritage Science for Conservation (HSC) Project. The project, which serves as a bridge between the art and science of conservation, is based in the Libraries’ Department of Conservation and Preservation and is run in close collaboration with the Whiting School of Engineering.
July 21, 2011 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Canadian Conservation Institute, george Peabody Library, Heritage Science Conservation Project, Johns Hopkins Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Institutional News
A $484,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow the Program in Museums and Society at The Johns Hopkins University to expand both its course offerings and its staff.
January 19, 2011 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore Museum of Art, Jewish Museum of Maryland, Program in Museums and Society, Walters Art Museum
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News
