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.
One of the two brain-training methods most scientists use in research is significantly better in improving memory and attention, Johns Hopkins University researchers found. It also results in more significant changes in brain activity.
October 17, 2017 Tags: attention, brain, Brain training, cognition, Johns Hopkins University, Kara Blacker, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, memory, neuroscience, Susan Courtney, working memory
| Category: biology, Natural Sciences, Psychology
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $150 million to Johns Hopkins University to forge new ways to address the deterioration of civic engagement worldwide.
June 22, 2017 Tags: Agora Institute, Beverly Wendland, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to glimpse the human brain making a purely voluntary decision to act.
July 13, 2016 Tags: attention, brain, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Free will, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Steven Yantis, Susan M. Courtney, Volition
| Category: Natural Sciences, Psychology
Tuition for full-time liberal arts and engineering undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.5 percent this fall while the financial aid budget supporting those students rises 5 percent.
April 29, 2016 Tags: Financial aid, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Peabody Conservatory, tuition, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Poor Americans are shouldering an unfair tax burden, a toll that is exacerbating poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, low graduation rates, teen pregnancy and crime, according to the authors of the book “Taxing the Poor: Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged” (University of California Press, February 2011).
September 22, 2011 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Katherine S. Newman, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Rourke L. O'Brien
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
