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.
Johns Hopkins researchers recently received a $195,000 Rapid Response Research grant from the National Science Foundation to, using machine learning, identify which COVID-19 patients are at risk of adverse cardiac events such as heart failure, sustained abnormal heartbeats, heart attacks, cardiogenic shock and death.
May 18, 2020 Tags: AI, Allison Hays, cardiology, machine learning, Natalia Trayanova, NSF, RAPID grant
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in research and development spending for the 39th straight year in fiscal year 2017, spending a record $2.562 billion on projects like enhancing drone safety, growing retinas in the lab to find out how color vision is developed, and improving methods of studying cell mechanics to advance cancer research.
December 17, 2018 Tags: academic research, Denis Wirtz, federally financed R&D, National Science Foundation, NSF, R&D, research support
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in research and development expenditures for the 38th consecutive year, spending $2.431 billion in fiscal year 2016.
March 22, 2018 Tags: Denis Wirtz, federally financed R&D, National Science Foundation, NSF, R&D, research expenditures
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Institutional News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University led U.S. universities in research and development spending for the 37th straight year in fiscal 2015, putting a record $2.306 billion into projects to cure disease, promote human health, advance technology and expand knowledge of the universe and ourselves.
December 7, 2016 Tags: academic research, Denis Wirtz, federally financed R&D, National Science Foundation, NSF, R&D, research support, technology transfer
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Carey Priebe, a noted mathematician in Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation EAGER grant for his work exploring the complex behaviors of the brain’s circuitry.
August 21, 2014 Tags: applied mathematics and statistics, brain research, Carey Priebe, EAGER grant, fruit fly, National Science Foundation, neuroscience, NSF, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Uncategorized
The Johns Hopkins University is joining the University of Maryland, George Washington University and Virginia Tech in a regional collaboration called Innovation Corps, designed to train faculty and student researchers to transform ideas into products and get them on the market..
June 11, 2014 Tags: Christy Wyskiel, entrepreneurship, I-Corps, National Science Foundation, NSF, T.E. Schlesinger, technology transfer
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
A team of scientists at The Johns Hopkins University has received a grant for $9.5 million over five years to develop, build and maintain large-scale data sets that will allow for greater access and better usability of the information for the science community.
October 30, 2013 Tags: astronomy, Big Data, computer science, Data Infrastructure Building Blocks, data sets, DIBBs, National Science Foundation, NSF, SDSS, SkyServer, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
| Category: Physics and Astronomy, Technology, Uncategorized
