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.
More than 500 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 23, 2020 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Robotics, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public
The Johns Hopkins University, Lockheed Martin and Barclay Elementary/Middle School will come together for an evening designed to showcase the science and engineering projects that students have been working on in the classroom all year.
April 17, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, science and technology education, STEM programs, STEN
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Student-Related News, Technology
Baltimore City Public Schools in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University has adopted a program to strengthen science, technology, engineering and math instruction in the district’s elementary schools.
September 12, 2017 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, elementary school, Next Generation Science Standards, STEM
| Category: Education/K-12, JHU Community Connections, Public policy, Uncategorized
Graffiti scrawlers in Highlandtown, beware: a team of third- and fourth-graders is building a drone to catch you in the act, and also clean the building.
May 2, 2016 Tags: backpack, Baltimore City Public Schools, drone, Global Air Media, graffiti, robot, SABES, STEM, student engineers
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Uncategorized
On Saturday, April 5, in the Newton White Athletic Center on The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus, more than 100 middle and high school students from Baltimore City Public Schools will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship competition. The event is being hosted by the Center for Educational Outreach at Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, in partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools. The Center’s mission is to increase the number of youth who pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and careers, particularly women and underrepresented minorities.
April 3, 2014 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
More than 750 public school students in Baltimore’s Charles Village return to classes this year in buildings that are safer, more functional, more attractive and better suited for learning, thanks to $1.6 million in summer upgrades, half paid for by Johns Hopkins.
August 28, 2013 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, Barclay School, Charles Village, Greater Homewood Community Corporation, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, Karen Stokes, Margaret Brent School, Ronald J. Daniels, Tisha Edwards
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University Administration, University-Related
Hundreds of Baltimore public school students whose families can’t afford required school uniforms have been invited to Johns Hopkins on Wednesday to eat ice cream and receive two free uniforms donated by employees and students.
August 21, 2012 Tags: back-to-school, Baltimore City Public Schools, Michael A. Sarbanes, Ronald J. Daniels, school uniforms
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
More than 100 middle and high school students, mainly from Baltimore City Public Schools, will compete Saturday at Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus in a VEX Robotics qualifying competition, in which student-made devices will score points by placing doughnut-size rings atop posts and by hanging from ladder rungs.
December 9, 2010 Tags: Baltimore City Public Schools, engineering education, Johns Hopkins Engineering, Robotics, Vex Robotics Competition
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
Though it’s located in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University’s verdant and well-manicured Homewood campus seems a world away from the gritty drug corners and public housing projects that form the backdrop for the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed five-season HBO drama “The Wire.” But inside a classroom in Hodson Hall, a group of undergraduates is immersing itself in that other world, thanks to a new public health studies course called “Baltimore and ‘The Wire’: A Focus on Major Urban Issues.” Created and taught by former Baltimore City Health Commissioner Peter Beilenson – currently Howard County health officer – the class uses the fictional but highly realistic world of the former TV series as a lens through which to view issues confronting not only Baltimore, but also other major American urban centers, from Detroit to Philadelphia to Los Angeles.
October 7, 2010 Tags: Andres Alonso, Baltimore City Health Department, Baltimore City Public Schools, criminal justice, David Simon, Ed Norris, HBO, homelessness, Homewood campus, Howard County, Kurt Schmoke, Martin O'Malley, need exchange, Patricia Jessamy, Peter Beilenson, poverty, the war on drugs, The Wire, urban health issues, urban issues
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences
