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 Club is opening its new Nobel Room, dedicated to the 36 Johns Hopkins university faculty members, graduates and other affiliates who have won Nobel Prizes.
October 20, 2015 Tags: Adam Riess, Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins Club, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Woodrow Wilson
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University has named two of its Nobel Prize- winning biologists and a prominent Harvard University sociologist as Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, the first members of a new group of scholars created to foster collaboration across the institution’s many divisions and help address major world problems.
February 17, 2014 Tags: Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Peter Agre, Robert C. Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
Donald Brown, an adjunct professor of biology at The Johns Hopkins University since 1969 and director emeritus of the Carnegie Institution for Science Department of Embryology, has won the prestigious 2012 Lasker-Koshland Special Achievement Award in Medical Science for groundbreaking fundamental work in genetics, along with exceptional work mentoring young scientists. Also honored is Tom Maniatis of Columbia University.
September 11, 2012 Tags: Alfred Sommer, American Nobels, Beverly Wendland, Carol Greider, Columbia University, Department of Biology, Donald Brown, Johns Hopkins University, Joseph Gall, Lasker Award, Life Sciences Research Foundation, Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Tom Maniatis, Vernon Mountcastle
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
Paul B. Rothman, a distinguished physician, scientist, educator and academic health care leader, was appointed Dec. 19 as the next dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine,
December 19, 2011 Tags: Carol Greider, Frances Jane Meyer, Francis Burch, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Lloyd B. Minor, Mike Weisfeldt, Paul Rothman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
