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.
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
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $5 million to Johns Hopkins, enabling the university, the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Maryland Film Festival to transform Baltimore’s historic Parkway Theater into a center for the study, production and exhibition of film.
October 20, 2014 Tags: Film and Media Studies, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, Maryland Film Festival, MICA, Parkway Theater, Station North, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Giving, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Reporters and columnists are invited to cover a one-day conference for universities, medical centers and other large nonprofits that use their knowledge, influence and financial clout to promote jobs, better education and community development in their home areas.
December 3, 2013 Tags: anchor institutions, Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School, HCPI, Henderson-Hopkins School, Homewood Community Partners Initiative
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
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
The Johns Hopkins University has chosen a team headed by Baltimore- and Virginia-based Armada Hoffler to develop a mixed-use retail and residential complex with garage parking on university-owned land in the 3200 block of St. Paul Street in Charles Village.
February 8, 2013 Tags: Charles Village, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, real estate, St. Paul Street, St. Paul Street Project in Charles Village
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
