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 Peabody Institute composer and pianist Michael Hersch, whose groundbreaking work has been performed worldwide, has won the university’s 2017 President’s Frontier Award, an honor that comes with $250,000 for research and innovation.
January 31, 2017 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Michael Hersch, Peabody Institute, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Peabody, University-Related
Fred Bronstein, the highly successful chief executive of one of America’s major symphonies, an accomplished pianist and a dedicated music educator, has been appointed to lead the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, the nation’s first music conservatory.
March 24, 2014 Tags: Fred Bronstein, Jeffrey Sharkey, Peabody Conservatory, Peabody Institute, Peabody Preparatory, Robert C. Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Institutional News, Peabody, University Administration, University-Related
Dolby will also be artistic director of a film center Johns Hopkins is launching along with the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Maryland Film Festival in Station North, Baltimore’s nascent arts and entertainment district. The center will be a key facet of Johns Hopkins’ efforts to revitalize that neighborhood, which is located between the main campus and downtown Baltimore.
March 5, 2014 Tags: Film and Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Katherine Newman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Peabody Institute, Sound on Film, Thomas Dolby
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Homewood Campus News, Peabody
There’s a reason why Christmas carols start filling the air before we have polished off the last pieces of our Halloween candy. Craving a sense of community and drawn to ritual, we welcome the return of seasonal music, even if the calendar says we have several weeks to go before Dec. 25, according to Jeffrey Sharkey, director of the Peabody Institute at The Johns Hopkins University.
December 5, 2012 Tags: holiday songs, Jeffrey Sharkey, Peabody Institute
| Category: Peabody
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at The Johns Hopkins University will celebrate its mission to change lives and build communities for retired and semi-retired individuals with a program honoring and recognizing the anniversary of the War of 1812 and the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
June 4, 2012 Tags: David Hildebrand, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Peabody Institute
| Category: Events Open to the Public
The Johns Hopkins University School of Education and Morgan State University’s School of Education and Urban Studies have joined forces in a university-school initiative to help transform the East Baltimore Community School into one of the best schools in the city.
August 23, 2011 Tags: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Research and Reform in Education, Center for Social Concern, Center for Talented Youth, Center for the Social Organization of Schools, East Baltimore Community School, East Baltimore Development Inc., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, Morgan State University’s School of Education and Urban Studies, Peabody Institute, Robert Slavin, Success for All Foundation, Urban Health Institute, Weinberg Foundation
| Category: Education/K-12, Institutional News
For centuries, philosophers have speculated about the links between beauty, human perception, creativity and pleasure. In recent years, scientists have learned a great deal about sensory systems and human response to the visual world, three-dimensional space, sound, touch, taste and smell. To further explore these ideas, the Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute will host a two-day public symposium titled, “The Science of the Arts: Perceptual Neuroscience and Aesthetics” on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 20 and 21 at the American Visionary Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
October 12, 2010 Tags: aesthetics, American Visionary Arts Museum, architecture, ballet, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, brain science, dance, John Griffin, music, neuroscience, painting, Peabody Institute, Richard Huganir, sculpture, sensory systems, the arts, The Johns Hopkins Brain Science Institute, Walters Art Museum
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Engineering, Environment, Events Open to the Public, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Psychology, Social Sciences, Technology
