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.
With the 2020 elections looming and amid continuing concerns over social media’s role in U.S. politics, Johns Hopkins University has an expert ready to discuss a comprehensive new report recommending how candidates, tech platforms and regulators can ensure that digital political campaigns promote and protect fair elections.
January 8, 2020 Tags: Adam Sheingate, digital political campaigns, Digital Political Ethics, elections, Facebook, Johns Hopkins University, Twitter
| Category: Uncategorized
Johns Hopkins employees, alumni, students and friends will attend the annual Christmas Eve graveside observance honoring the founder of the university and health system, Mr. Johns Hopkins.
December 20, 2019 Tags: Christmas Eve, Green Mount Cemetery, Johns Hopkins, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, University-Related
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new method for producing atomically-thin semiconducting crystals that could one day enable more powerful and compact electronic devices.
By using specially-treated silicon surfaces to tailor the crystals’ size and shape, the researchers have found a potentially faster and less expensive way to produce next-generation semiconductor crystals for microchips. The crystalline materials produced this way could in turn enable new scientific discoveries and accelerate technological developments in quantum computing, consumer electronics, and higher efficiency solar cells and batteries.
November 18, 2019 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, microchips, nanomaterials, quantum computing, semiconductor crystals, Thomas J. Kempa
| Category: Chemistry, Computer Science, Natural Sciences, Technology
Jan Dutkiewicz, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins and an expert in the alternative meat industry, can explain:
How the history of the Impossible Burger and other popular alternative meats can be traced to Thanksgiving.
Why despite the current plant-based meat craze, there is not yet a turkey option that’s created as much buzz.
How in the future Thanksgivings, with lab-grown meat soon to be available, people might be able to buy turkey created in a petri dish.
November 11, 2019 Tags: alternative meat, Beyond Burger, Impossible Burger, Jan Dutkiewicz, Johns Hopkins University, lab-grown meat, plant-based meat, Thanksgiving, tofurky
| Category: Business and Economics, Environment, Government and Politics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two other critical purposes: to generate sound and to point that buzz in the direction of a potential mate, researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered. Their findings about the aerodynamics of mosquito wings could have implications for building quieter drones and for devising nontoxic methods to trap and exterminate the pests.
November 7, 2019 Tags: drones, Johns Hopkins University, Mosquitos, Rajat Mittal
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Technology
Johns Hopkins University experts are available to offer perspective on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
October 28, 2019 Tags: Anniversary of Berlin Wall fall, Berlin Wall, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Government and Politics
Babies who are years away from being able to say “one,” “two,” and “three” actually already have a sense of what counting means, Johns Hopkins University researchers have discovered.
The findings reveal that very early on, years earlier than previously believed, babies who hear counting realize that it’s about quantity.
October 24, 2019 Tags: babies, child development, counting, infants, Jenny Wang, Johns Hopkins University, Lisa Feigenson, number skills
| Category: Psychology
During this season when fear is in fashion, the only time of year when people look forward to feeling afraid, a Johns Hopkins University professor, an expert in zombies, vampires, horror literature and slasher films, is available to talk about what exactly puts the shiver into the world’s scariest stories.
October 17, 2019 Tags: Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, ghost stories, Halloween, horror, Johns Hopkins University, scary, William Egginton
| Category: Arts and Humanities
Indigenous Peoples Day is a new tradition at Johns Hopkins University that celebrates a vital population in our community. A reimagining of Columbus Day, the event will honor the rich heritage of Indigenous communities with a Pow-Wow featuring singing, drummers, dancing, and tastings of tribal cuisine.
October 11, 2019 Tags: Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day, Johns Hopkins University, Pow-Wow
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Biologists at Johns Hopkins University have uncovered an important clue in the longtime mystery of how long strands of DNA fold up to squeeze into microscopic cells, with each pair of chromosomes aligned to ensure perfect development.
October 10, 2019 Tags: biology, chromosomes, developmental biology, DNA, genes, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Johnston
| Category: biology, Natural Sciences
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University has unveiled plans for the Institute’s home in Baltimore, designed by world-renowned architecture firm Renzo Piano Building Workshop. The new structure on the Homewood campus promises to represent the mission and values of the Institute as well as the creativity and vibrancy of the university and the city.
September 19, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Renzo Piano, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what they need to know at a given time, and a new Johns Hopkins University study could explain why.
August 5, 2019 Tags: aging, brain, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Susan M. Courtney, Thomas Hinault
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Psychology
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
In the largest commitment to solar energy in Maryland and one of the most significant pledges to greenhouse gas reduction in higher education, Johns Hopkins University has entered into a long-term agreement to supply its campuses with more than 250,000 megawatt hours of solar power per year.
April 22, 2019 Tags: carbon emissions, Constellation, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, solar, solar energy
| Category: Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
Retired U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), who is now a professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins University, today issues the following statement remembering Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Michael E. Busch:
April 8, 2019 Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Uncategorized
A political scientist who dedicated her career to understanding civic and political participation will now work to advance them as inaugural director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. She starts July 1.
April 4, 2019 Tags: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University students will no longer need a campus identification card to get into their dorms, pay for pizza or do laundry. Starting this week, a flash of their iPhone or Apple Watch will handle all of that and more as the university becomes the fifth in the country to offer students the option to add their campus ID to Apple Wallet.
March 28, 2019 Tags: Apple Wallet, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, will speak at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Thursday May 23.
March 26, 2019 Tags: Commencement, Jeffrey Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University, The Atlantic
| Category: Commencement, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Computers, like those that power self-driving cars, can be tricked into mistaking random scribbles for trains, fences and even school busses. People aren’t supposed to be able to see how those images trip up computers but in a new study, Johns Hopkins University researchers show most people actually can.
March 22, 2019 Tags: adversarial images, artificial intelligence, Chaz Firestone, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, fooling images, Johns Hopkins University, self-driving cars
| Category: Computer Science, Psychology, Technology, Uncategorized
Can liberal democracy endure? Reawakening the Spirit of Democracy will address this question head-on. Co-hosted by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and the Renew Democracy Initiative, this conference will convene global thought leaders from across the political spectrum who will debate threats to democracy and propose strategies to reinvigorate it.
March 11, 2019 Tags: Anne Applebaum, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Barbara Mikulski, Ben Cardin, Bill Galston, Bill Kristol, Bret Stephens, Dana White, Donna Brazile, Ed Lucas, Eric Cantor, Evelyn Farkas, Francisco González, Garry Kasparov, Graham Brookie, Jennifer Rubin, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Haidt, Max Boot, Pete Wehner, Renew Democracy Initiative, Richard North Patterson, Sheri Berman, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Yamiche Alcindor, Yascha Mounk
| Category: Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins Blue Jay mascot debuted a new look during a dramatic reveal today at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 16, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, Uncategorized, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University’s Blue Jay mascot will debut a new look during a dramatic reveal Saturday at halftime of the men’s lacrosse home opener. With a nod to Hopkins’ excellence in the fields of science and health, “Jay’s” makeover reflects his efforts to improve his personal fitness while also exhibiting more scientifically and anatomically correct attributes for his species.
February 15, 2019 Tags: Blue Jay, Johns Hopkins University, mascot
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Sports, University-Related
The more crime that occurs along a student’s way to school, the higher the likelihood that student will be absent, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, crime, Education, Johns Hopkins University, Julia Burdick-Will, school commute
| Category: Education/K-12, Social Sciences
Cybele Bjorklund, a longtime federal health policy leader, has been appointed vice president for federal strategy, a new position for Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. She joins the university March 1 and will be based in Washington, D.C.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Cybele Bjorklund, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
A diverse array of activists is slated to visit Johns Hopkins University this semester as part of the annual student-run Foreign Affairs Symposium. This year’s theme is “Disrupt.”
February 11, 2019 Tags: Foreign Affairs Symposium, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
