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.
The Johns Hopkins University today bought Baltimore’s historic Stieff Silver complex, making a highly visible symbol of the city’s manufacturing heritage formally a part of its future in the knowledge economy.
November 1, 2017 Tags: Ed Schlesinger, real estate, Stieff Silver, T.E. Schlesinger, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
In a study recently published in the journal Real Estate Economics, public policy professor Sandra J. Newman and researcher C. Scott Holupka found that race was a key determinate of which low and moderate-income people who bought first homes during the decade made money. During the Great Recession, white homebuyers lost money but black ones lost considerably more. Even during the boom years, when white buyers increased their wealth by 50 percent, black buyers lost 47 percent of their wealth.
October 7, 2015 Tags: C. Scott Holupka, Great Recession, homeownership, Housing boom, inequality, Johns Hopkins University, race, real estate, Sandra J. Newman
| Category: Business and Economics, Public Health, Social Sciences
The Johns Hopkins University has chosen a team headed by Baltimore- and Virginia-based Armada Hoffler to develop a mixed-use retail and residential complex with garage parking on university-owned land in the 3200 block of St. Paul Street in Charles Village.
February 8, 2013 Tags: Charles Village, Homewood Community Partners Initiative, real estate, St. Paul Street, St. Paul Street Project in Charles Village
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University Administration
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
Alan R. Fish, associate vice chancellor for facilities planning and management at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been appointed to a new senior position overseeing real estate, facilities, transportation and other services at The Johns Hopkins University.
November 18, 2011 Tags: Alan Fish, Daniel Ennis, facilities, property management, real estate, real estate development
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Live Near Your Work, a program that helps Johns Hopkins Institutions employees buy homes in select Baltimore neighborhoods near Johns Hopkins campuses, has announced several enhancements that will provide larger base grants to eligible homebuyers and expanded opportunities to receive home-buying aid.
April 12, 2011 Tags: employee benefits, employee grants, home buying, homeownership, Live Near York Work, real estate
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
