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.
The following Johns Hopkins University experts — political scientists, economists, historians and sociologists — are available for interviews on topics of race, inequality and political movements:
August 17, 2017 Tags: Adam Sheingate, Andrew Cherlin, Black Lives Matter, Christian right, civil rights, conservatives, Daniel Schlozman, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin, Lester K. Spence, Nathan Connolly, political movements, race, Stephen L. Morgan, Steven Teles, Vesla Weaver
| Category: Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Ben Seigel, a Baltimore native who helped design the Obama Administration’s place-based strategy and led the federal government’s effort to address deep-rooted issues in Baltimore after last year’s unrest, has joined a Johns Hopkins University project to strengthen cities with similar urban challenges.
January 27, 2016 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Social Sciences, University-Related
Low-income fathers who might be labeled “deadbeat dads” often spend as much on their children as parents in formal child support arrangements, but they choose to give goods like food and clothing rather than cash, a Johns Hopkins-led study found.
June 15, 2015 Tags: child support, Deadbeat dads, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin
| Category: Business and Economics, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has committed funds to launch a Johns Hopkins University effort helping cities use data to run more effective operations and fix urban problems.
April 20, 2015 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Beth Blauer, Center for Government Excellence, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sharon Paley
| Category: Giving, Government and Politics, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University has named two of its Nobel Prize- winning biologists and a prominent Harvard University sociologist as Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, the first members of a new group of scholars created to foster collaboration across the institution’s many divisions and help address major world problems.
February 17, 2014 Tags: Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins University, Kathryn Edin, Michael R. Bloomberg, Peter Agre, Robert C. Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration