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.
Twenty-five local companies that came together pledging to create more economic opportunity in Baltimore report after the first three years of that effort, they’re buying $50 million more from city and with minority vendors than they had been and have hired more than 1,700 Baltimore residents.
May 15, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, Economic Inclusion, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration
Johns Hopkins University and Health System announced today that the institution has surpassed its three-year goals for hiring, purchasing and construction contracting.
February 21, 2019 Tags: Baltimore, Economic Inclusion, HopkinsLocal, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
Many astronomy researchers benefit from sky surveys containing millions of stars and galaxies observed by telescopes. But Brice Ménard’s colleagues say his imagination and insight make him particularly adept at discovering the universal secrets hidden in a daunting amount of data. Ménard, an astrophysicist and associate professor at Johns Hopkins University, has received this year’s $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to support his exploration of astronomical data.
February 13, 2019 Tags: Brice Ménard, President Ronald J. Daniels, President's Frontier Award
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University Administration, University-Related
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Oct. 13, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
October 11, 2018 Tags: Baltimore, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
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
Planting, weeding and making lunches for the homeless. These are just some of the ways more than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help the city on Saturday, Sept. 24, as they volunteer en masse at more than 30 Baltimore non-profit organizations.
September 22, 2016 Tags: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees has appointed Ronald J. Daniels to an additional five years as president, extending his tenure as leader of the institution through June 30, 2024.
July 7, 2016 Tags: Jeffrey H. Aronson, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Young people in Baltimore City will have a chance to express themselves creatively and build their resumes with the launch of Johns Hopkins University’s youth filmmaking program.
December 21, 2015 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore City, Baltimore Youth Documentary and Film Arts Program, Film & Media Studies, Johns Hopkins University, President Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Arts and Humanities, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins University’s Board of Trustees voted this week to renew the contract of President Ronald J. Daniels, keeping him at the helm of the nation’s first research institution for another five years. Board chairman Jeffrey H. Aronson, announced the contract renewal, which extends Daniels’ term to 2019.
January 17, 2014 Tags: contract renewal, Johns Hopkins president, Johns Hopkins University Administration, President Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Katherine A. Ates, the top aide to Sen. John D. “Jay” Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., has been appointed vice president and chief of the president’s staff at The Johns Hopkins University.
October 21, 2013 Tags: chief of staff, Kerry Ates, President Ronald J. Daniels, vice president
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
More than 1,000 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff are set to spend a day helping several dozen of Baltimore’s non-profit organizations. People will plant gardens, clean the harbor, weed vacant lots and distribute food to the homeless.
October 14, 2013 Tags: President Ronald J. Daniels, President’s Day of Service
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
In his first major speech as the head of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Dean Bernard T. Ferrari announced that the school plans to focus its research and instruction on four troubled areas of the economy – health care; real estate and public infrastructure; the financial services industry; and the national security industry.
September 20, 2012 Tags: Dean Bernard T. Ferrari, financial services, health care, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University, national security, President Ronald J. Daniels, real estate
| Category: Business and Economics
