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.
President Ronald J. Daniels announced on Wednesday, July 18, that Provost Lloyd B. Minor will be leaving Johns Hopkins after nearly two decades to accept a position as dean of medicine at Stanford University.
July 18, 2012 Tags: Lloyd B. Minor, Lloyd Minor, provost, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, University Administration, University-Related
On Friday, Jan. 20, The Johns Hopkins University will hold a daylong meeting of nearly 300 faculty members, academic leaders, staff members and outside experts to consider innovative, more effective alternatives to traditional large lecture/lab introductory science classes for undergraduates, graduate students and professional students.
January 13, 2012 Tags: Gateway Sciences Initiative, Lloyd Minor, science education, STEM
| Category: Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Law Institute, will hold a symposium, “Issues in Global Health: Advancing Efficiency and Quality through Regulatory Science,” from 7:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Dec. 2, 2011, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Funding is provided by Johnson & Johnson. Carey professors Toby Gordon and Dipankar Chakravarti are co-conveners of the event.
November 21, 2011 Tags: Dipankar Chakravarti, FDLI, Food and Drug Law Institute, inspection issues, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johnson & Johnson, Lloyd Minor, medical-device companies, pharmaceuticals, Toby Gordon
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Uncategorized
Before the program ended on September 30, Johns Hopkins received $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act or ARRA.
December 6, 2010 Tags: ALS, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, APL, Applied Physics Lab, ARRA, cocktail party effect, federal stimulus act, global climate change, Jeffrey Rothstein, Lloyd Minor, Mounya Elhilali, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, ocean circulation, ocean currents, Robert Moffitt, Ronald Daniels, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Haine, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.85 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2009, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 31st year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.58 billion in FY2009 on research supported by NSF, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
September 29, 2010 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Department of Defense, federally financed R&D, Johns Hopkins University, Lloyd Minor, NASA, National Science Foundation, NIH, R&D, research and development
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology, University Administration, University-Related