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.
A summer program that gives area community college students an opportunity to bolster their academic confidence while conducting humanities research at Johns Hopkins University will expand with a new $1.8 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
January 23, 2020 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, CCBC, Community College of Baltimore County, Humanities, Humanities Collaboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Natalie Strobach, summer program
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Education/K-12
Philanthropist Elizabeth Grass Weese and her brother, Roger Grass have committed $10 million to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at the Johns Hopkins University and to promote literature, art, philosophy, history and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community. The gift is the largest ever to Johns Hopkins exclusively for the support of the humanities.
April 11, 2016 Tags: Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Beverly Wendland, Christopher Celenza, Elizabeth Grass Weese, Humanities, Krieger School of Arts and Science, philanthropy, Rising to the Challenge, Roger Grass, Ronald J. Daniels, William Egginton
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
