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.

Johns Hopkins Faculty Members Elected To National Academy of Medicine

Six faculty members from the Johns Hopkins University have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

October 15, 2018 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, National Academy of Medicine, School of Medicine
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health

Klag to End 12-Year Run as Dean of Public Health

Michael J. Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2005, a 32-year member of the university community and a world expert on the epidemiology of major chronic diseases, will step down as dean next year and return to research and teaching.

October 6, 2016 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, dean, Michael Klag, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related

Johns Hopkins University Partners with Coursera to Offer Free Online Classes

The Johns Hopkins University today announced that it has joined Coursera, an upstart education venture formed to offer high-quality college-level university courses online for free, creating new opportunities for learning worldwide.

July 17, 2012 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, Coursera, Michael J. Klag, online education
| Category: Institutional News

Six Johns Hopkins Researchers Elected to the 2011 AAAS

Six Johns Hopkins researchers have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Barry Zirkin of the Bloomberg School of Public Health; Kit Hansell Bowen and Sarah Woodson of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences; Andrew Feinberg and Min Li of the School of Medicine; and Paula Pitha-Rowe of the Kimmel Cancer Center are among 539 new fellows from around the world. Election as an AAAS fellow honors scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.

December 20, 2011 Tags: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Andrew Feinberg, Barry Zirkin, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Kimmel Cancer Center, Kit Hansell Bowen, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Min Li, Paula Pitha-Rowe, Sarah Woodson
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Public Health

Schools of Education Lend Expertise and Support to The East Baltimore Community School

The Johns Hopkins University School of Education and Morgan State University’s School of Education and Urban Studies have joined forces in a university-school initiative to help transform the East Baltimore Community School into one of the best schools in the city.

August 23, 2011 Tags: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Research and Reform in Education, Center for Social Concern, Center for Talented Youth, Center for the Social Organization of Schools, East Baltimore Community School, East Baltimore Development Inc., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Morgan State University’s School of Education and Urban Studies, Peabody Institute, Robert Slavin, Success for All Foundation, Urban Health Institute, Weinberg Foundation
| Category: Education/K-12, Institutional News

Five Johns Hopkins Researchers Named AAAS Fellows

Five Johns Hopkins researchers have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Chia-Ling Chien and Marc M. Greenberg of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Valeria Culotta of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Se-Jin Lee and Mark Mattson of the School of Medicine are among 503 new fellows from around the world. Election as an AAAS fellow honors scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications. The names of the awardees will be published in the “AAAS News and Notes” section of Science on January 28. The newly elected fellows will be awarded a certificate and a rosette pin during the AAAS Fellows Forum at the 2011 AAAS annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Feb. 19.

January 11, 2011 Tags: AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Chia-Ling Chien, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Marc M. Greenberg, Mark Mattson, neuroscience, School of Medicine, Se-Jin Lee, Valeria Culotta
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Public Health, Technology, University-Related

New JHU Computer To Enable Data Analysis Not Possible Today

Imagine a tool that is a cross between a powerful electron microscope and the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing scientists from disciplines ranging from medicine and genetics to astrophysics, environmental science, oceanography and bioinformatics to examine and analyze enormous amounts of data from both “little picture” and “big picture” perspectives.Using a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a group led by computer scientist and astrophysicist Alexander Szalay of Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science is designing and developing such a tool, dubbed the Data-Scope.

November 1, 2010 Tags: Alexander Szalay, Andreas Terzis, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Data-Scope, Department of Computer Science, electron microscope, Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic, federal stimulus grant, federal stimulus money, high-performance computing, Hubble Space Telescope, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins' Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science, Jonathan Bagger, Kenneth Church, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Science Foundation, petabyte, Sarah Wheelan, School of Medicine, Scott Zeger, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Environment, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology

Johns Hopkins Hits $200 Million Mark in Recovery Act Grants

The Johns Hopkins University has to date been awarded more than $200 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 package. The 424 grants are financing investigations ranging from how the universe began to how men and women differ in their responses to the influenza virus to new strategies to prevent muscle loss caused by diseases such as muscular dystrophy. The grants also have underwritten the creation of 164 staff jobs, 32 of which are still open.

July 13, 2010 Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARRA, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Charles L. Bennett, Cynda H. Rushton, federal stimulus act, Jeffrey Rothstein, Jin U. Kang, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Scott Zeger, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology, University Administration, University-Related