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.
Abuse intervention services for those with criminal histories of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), arts workshops to process trauma, and a community mediation initiative that will bring together Latinx immigrant and Black youth are among nine projects chosen to receive Johns Hopkins University’s Innovation Fund for Community Safety grant awards.
June 30, 2021 Tags: Baltimore, Innovation Fund for Community Safety, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News
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
With cases of COVID-19 on the rise in Baltimore and new state mandates for mask use, it’s more critical than ever that people living in the city have access to masks. To help get city residents the protection they need, this week Johns Hopkins University and Medicine will partner with The Door and The Mix Churches to distribute 85,000 reusable masks to more than 50 community groups, neighborhood associations and faith-based institutions.
August 12, 2020 Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, masks
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
In announcing new HopkinsLocal goals tightly focused on addressing inequality in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is doubling down on efforts to build the city’s economy by bringing work and opportunity to the people in the city who need it most.
January 29, 2020 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Alicia Wilson, an accomplished attorney and civic leader with deep expertise in creating local economic opportunity, has been appointed vice president for economic development for Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System. She will lead the newly-created Office of Economic Development when she joins the organization in July.
June 19, 2019 Tags: Alicia Wilson, Baltimore, BLocal, East Baltimore Development Initiative, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins University, vice president for economic development
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration
Johns Hopkins University and Health System announced today that the institution has surpassed its three-year goals for hiring, purchasing and construction contracting.
February 21, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, Economic Inclusion, HopkinsLocal, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
The more crime that occurs along a student’s way to school, the higher the likelihood that student will be absent, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, crime, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, school commute
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Oct. 13, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
October 11, 2018 Tags: Baltimore, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
It pays to be a business in Baltimore. That’s the message that Johns Hopkins wants proprietors and their patrons to know as part of the institution’s HopkinsLocal initiative to support and invest in local enterprises.
May 9, 2018 Tags: Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
Twenty-five Baltimore-area companies that came together to help increase economic opportunities for local businesses and residents today announced that they not only met the goal they set for the three-year program, they surpassed it – in just the first year.
December 18, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, BLocal, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
A Johns Hopkins University climate scientist and her research team have launched a project to measure neighborhood to neighborhood climate differences in Baltimore, an effort that she hopes will alert residents, guide city planners and ease some of the impact climate change could have on people.
December 12, 2017 Tags: air pollution, Baltimore, climate change, electronic monitoriing, microclimates, ozone, urban climate
| Category: Technology, Uncategorized
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
September 21, 2017 CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 / Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Painting, gardening and beautifying city neighborhoods. These are just a few of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help Baltimore on Saturday, Sept. 23, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 local […]
September 21, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Sunday, Aug. 27, is “Baltimore Day” during orientation for first-year students at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University. Members of the class of 2021 will learn about the city and how to get around, visit city neighborhoods and institutions, and enjoy a Baltimore-themed cookout dinner.
August 24, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, Baltimore City, Baltimore Day, Orientation
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Ronald J. Daniels, President of Johns Hopkins University and Ronald R. Peterson, President of the Health System and Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, will discuss the progress that has been made with HopkinsLocal, the initiative developed by Johns Hopkins to promote its commitment to build, hire and buy locally.
March 9, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: University Administration, University-Related
A program that brings live fish into classrooms to teach the fundamentals of biology not only helps students learn, but improves their attitudes about science, a new study finds.
November 10, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, BioEYES, biology, Education, fish, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, Science, STEM, Steven A. Farber, zebrafish
| Category: biology, Education/K-12
The Enigmatic Edgar A. Poe in Baltimore & Beyond features highlights from the Susan Jaffe Tane Collection of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the finest private collections of Poe materials in the world.
October 3, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe, george Peabody Library, Susan Jaffe Tane Collection
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Libraries, University-Related
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 24, as they volunteer en masse at more than 30 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 22, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Young African-Americans from some of the country’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods are drawn to for-profit post-secondary trade schools, believing they are the quickest route to jobs. But a new study co-authored by a Johns Hopkins University sociologist finds the very thing that makes for-profit schools seem so appealing — a streamlined curriculum — is the reason so many poor students drop out.
September 15, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Education, for-profit colleges, sociology, Stefanie DeLuca
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Aspiring visual artists in Baltimore will have access to the expertise and connections of top filmmakers and executives through a new program launching at Johns Hopkins University.
April 21, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Film & Media Studies, film incubator, Freddie Gray, Johns Hopkins, Roberto Busó-García, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund in Film and Media Studies
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
For the working poor, making housing decisions based on the old real estate adage “location, location, location” is complicated: Should a family choose cramped quarters in a safer but more expensive neighborhood, or would it be better to have a bigger apartment where rent is low but crime rates are high? When faced with difficulties finding affordable housing to accommodate their families, 124 mothers and grandmothers in Baltimore participating in a housing study often opted for a bigger apartment in a less desirable location because extra bedrooms would mean higher rental rates in safer neighborhoods in the city or surrounding counties, according to sociologists at The Johns Hopkins University and Loyola University Chicago.
January 9, 2013 Tags: Baltimore, housing, sociology, Stefanie DeLuca
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University today unveils a program that will pay for service-minded undergraduates to stay in Baltimore over the summer to work as interns at local nonprofit and government agencies at no cost to those agencies.
December 13, 2010 Tags: Baltimore, community impact, nonprofits
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
