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.
Waiting until college to attract minority students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields may be too late. But mentoring in the sciences at the high school level can help influence gifted minority students to pursue scientific careers, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins.
March 5, 2013 Tags: Center for Talented Youth, CTY, CTY Center Scholars Program, Dawayne Whittington, Dr. Andrew P. Feinberg, Johns Hopkins Center for Epigenetics, Kimberly J. Fraleigh-Lohrfink, M. Victoria Schneider
| Category: Education/K-12
Everyone needs a place where they feel like they belong. But when you are a smart kid living in a rural area, finding classes and cultural opportunities, libraries and labs, and teachers and peers to inspire and engage you, can be difficult. Rural Connections, a new scholarship program launched this summer by The Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth (CTY), addresses this need.
June 11, 2012 Tags: Center for Talented Youth
| Category: Education/K-12
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
Elaine Hansen will step down from the Bates College presidency in July after nine years and start her new position August 1. She will succeed Lea Ybarra, who has led Center for Talented Youth for nearly 14 years.
April 21, 2011 Tags: Bates College, Center for Talented Youth, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Johns Hopkins University, Lea Ybarra
| Category: Education/K-12, Institutional News
