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.
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
The Curiosity Rover may have been ambling around the Gale Crater on Mars for nearly seven years but a group at Johns Hopkins University has just found a way to use it for something new: making the first surface gravity measurements on a planet other than Earth.
January 31, 2019 Tags: Curiosity Rover, gravity, Johns Hopkins University, Kevin Lewis, Mars
| Category: Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins University’s statement regarding the agreement reached between the university and the Freedom Forum, the creator and principal funder of the Newseum.
January 25, 2019 Tags: 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, D.C., Freedom Forum, Johns Hopkins University, Newseum, real estate, Washington
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute will sponsor a PBS NewsHour event Divided Nation, United States, to try to uncover how these governors work with their legislatures, relate to their constituents, and define success.
January 15, 2019 Tags: Divided Nation, Johns Hopkins University, partisanship, PBS NewsHour, politics, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, United States
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
A diverse and talented group of 641 high school students who applied for early admission to Johns Hopkins University were offered admission today, making them the first members of the undergraduate Class of 2023.
December 14, 2018 Tags: Class of 2023, early decision, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News
Americans trust their state governments to handle issues as important as education and health care and pay them more than a trillion dollars in taxes annually, yet we know very little about these institutions, a new Johns Hopkins University survey finds.
December 11, 2018 Tags: Benjamin Ginsberg, Jennifer Bachner, Johns Hopkins University, state government, survey
| Category: Government and Politics, Uncategorized
Retired U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, D-Md., a Homewood Professor at Johns Hopkins University, today issued the following statement on the passing of former President George H.W. Bush.
December 3, 2018 Tags: Barbara Mikulski, George H.W. Bush, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Social Sciences
The constant movement of fish that seems random is actually precisely deployed to provide them at any moment with the best sensory feedback they need any to navigate the world, Johns Hopkins University researchers found.
November 29, 2018 Tags: active sensing, electric fish, Johns Hopkins University, Noah Cowan
| Category: biology, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Technology
Michael R. Bloomberg and Johns Hopkins University announced an unprecedented $1.8 billion philanthropic commitment, representing the largest ever contribution to an academic institution in American history. The historic gift will be devoted exclusively to undergraduate financial aid at one of the world’s leading education, research and patient care institutions, allowing Johns Hopkins University to permanently commit to need-blind admissions and ensure unparalleled educational opportunities for the next generation of global leaders.
November 18, 2018 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Michael R. Bloomberg
| Category: Giving, Institutional News, University-Related
Having one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more likely to graduate high school, it makes them significantly more likely to enroll in college.
November 12, 2018 Tags: college, Education, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Nicholas W. Papageorge, one black teacher, race, teaching
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12
Johns Hopkins Engineering has launched a new online master’s degree program in healthcare systems engineering. Approved by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, the new program is now accepting applications for the spring 2019 semester.
November 9, 2018 Tags: Engineering, healthcare systems engineering, Johns Hopkins University, online master's degree program
| Category: Engineering
Astronomers have found what could be one of the universe’s oldest stars, a body almost entirely made of materials spewed from the Big Bang.
November 5, 2018 Tags: Big Bang, Johns Hopkins University, Kevin Schlaufman, low mass, low metal, Milky Way’s “thin disk”, physics and astronomy, stars
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
By studying barn owls, scientists at Johns Hopkins University believe they’ve taken an important step toward solving the longstanding mystery of how the brain chooses what most deserves attention.
October 30, 2018 Tags: ADHD, attention, Johns Hopkins University, owls, Shreesh Mysore
| Category: Natural Sciences, Psychology
At holiday buffets and potlucks people make quick calculations about which dishes to try and how much to take of each. Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have found a brain region that appears to be strongly connected to these food preference decisions.
October 19, 2018 Tags: brain, David Ottenheimer, food preference, Johns Hopkins University, neuroscience, Patricia H. Janak
| Category: Natural Sciences, Psychology
Biologists at Johns Hopkins University grew human retinas from scratch to determine how cells that allow people to see in color are made.
October 11, 2018 Tags: color vision, developmental biology, Johns Hopkins University, Kiara Eldred, photoreceptors, retinas, Robert Johnston
| Category: Natural Sciences
Landlords in disadvantaged communities are so unsettled by increasing water bills and nuisance fees they are taking it out their tenants, threatening the housing security of those who need it most, a new Johns Hopkins University study concludes.
October 1, 2018 Tags: inequality, Johns Hopkins University, landlords, Meredith Greif, Water bills
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
Monkeys who learned how to gamble have helped researchers pinpoint an area of the brain key to one’s willingness to make risky decisions.
September 20, 2018 Tags: brain, gambling, Johns Hopkins University, Monkeys, risky behavior, Veit Stuphorn, Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute
| Category: biology, Natural Sciences, Psychology
Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering has created a doctoral engineering program to serve the needs of working engineering professionals and to meet the growing demand for engineers who have the advanced knowledge needed to solve challenging problems.
September 18, 2018 Tags: DEng, doctoral engineering program, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University for the latest 36-hour HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to come up with software and hardware ideas.
September 12, 2018 Tags: HopHacks, Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Technology
