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 University performed $2.1 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2011, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 33rd year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.88 billion in FY2011 on research supported by NSF, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
November 28, 2012 Tags: APL, Applied Physics Laboratory, Department of Defense, federal expenditures, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Bagger, NASA, National Science Foundation, R & D
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Students dreaming of careers searching for life on other planets or monitoring global climate change remotely from satellites will be interested in a new interdisciplinary minor being offered at The Johns Hopkins University. Accessed through the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, the new space science and engineering minor is designed to prepare students to enter careers in the aerospace industry or professional laboratories, or to enter graduate programs.
February 28, 2012 Tags: aerospace, aerospace industry, APL, Applied Physics Laboratory, Charles L. Bennett, H. Warren Moos, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Homewood Academic Council, Jessica Noviello, Joseph Katz, Krieger School of Arts and Science, satellites, space science and engineering minor, Space Telescope Science Institute, Stephen Murray, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Student-Related News, University-Related
Before the program ended on September 30, Johns Hopkins received $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act or ARRA.
December 6, 2010 Tags: ALS, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, APL, Applied Physics Lab, ARRA, cocktail party effect, federal stimulus act, global climate change, Jeffrey Rothstein, Lloyd Minor, Mounya Elhilali, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, ocean circulation, ocean currents, Robert Moffitt, Ronald Daniels, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Haine, Whiting School of Engineering
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