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.
At the annual meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the nation’s largest gathering of black elected officials, about 100 students from Baltimore City’s Dunbar High School will participate in an event called the STEAM Revolt Youth Workshop: Wakanda Design Challenge. In this interactive contest, students, who are part of Dunbar’s P-TECH college prep program, will create a new Avengers superhero with ties to African culture.
September 12, 2018 Tags: Baltimore City, Black Panther, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Education, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, P-TECH, STEAM
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Institutional News, Technology
A group of Baltimore-area businesses today unveiled a sweeping new plan aimed at harnessing their collective influence to help strengthen the city and create opportunities for Baltimoreans.
April 4, 2016 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Each Dec. 24, people from Johns Hopkins take time from holiday preparations to gather at a plain, unassuming family gravesite in Baltimore’s Green Mount Cemetery. Why? To mark the anniversary of the death of the man who made Johns Hopkins possible: Mr. Johns Hopkins, who died on Christmas Eve in 1873.
December 17, 2013 Tags: Baltimore City, Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Johns Hopkins, Wayne Schaumburg
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, a renowned neuroscientist and neurosurgeon at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, will be the featured speaker at the university’s Thursday, May 23, commencement ceremony. He will address graduates from all Johns Hopkins schools at the morning university-wide event at the Homewood campus at which their degrees are officially conferred.
April 11, 2013 Tags: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, class of 2013, Commencement, Johns Hopkins Hospital
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News