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.
Legendary investor William H. “Bill” Miller III has committed a record $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University Department of Philosophy, believed to be by far the largest ever to a university philosophy program.
January 16, 2018 Tags: Beverly Wendland, Bill Miller, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, philanthropy, philosophy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, William Miller
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation has committed $150 million to Johns Hopkins University to forge new ways to address the deterioration of civic engagement worldwide.
June 22, 2017 Tags: Agora Institute, Beverly Wendland, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences
Johns Hopkins President Ronald J. Daniels and his wife, faculty member Joanne Rosen, are establishing a $1 million financial aid endowment for undergraduates at the university who are among the first in their families to attend college.
February 23, 2017 Tags: endowment, Financial aid, Joanne Rosen, philanthropy, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
The Clark Charitable Foundation is giving the Johns Hopkins University $15 million to provide financial aid and enhanced learning opportunities for undergraduate engineering students.
October 17, 2016 Tags: Clark Charitable Foundation, Clark Scholars Program, Ed Schlesinger, engineering undergraduates, Financial aid, James Clark, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, scholarships, undergraduate education, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Advisory to Baltimore-area news media: The fourth annual Johns Hopkins in Action day of service to Baltimore will take place in locations across the city this Saturday, May 7, involving more than 300 Johns Hopkins alumni, students, parents, faculty and staff volunteers and their relatives and friends.
May 4, 2016 Tags: Baltimore City, community service, Johns Hopkins in Action, Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Philanthropist Elizabeth Grass Weese and her brother, Roger Grass have committed $10 million to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at the Johns Hopkins University and to promote literature, art, philosophy, history and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community. The gift is the largest ever to Johns Hopkins exclusively for the support of the humanities.
April 11, 2016 Tags: Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, Beverly Wendland, Christopher Celenza, Elizabeth Grass Weese, Humanities, Krieger School of Arts and Science, philanthropy, Rising to the Challenge, Roger Grass, Ronald J. Daniels, William Egginton
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
The chair of the Johns Hopkins University’s board of trustees and his wife have committed $10 million to give students new opportunities in international relations and to enhance scholarly work on major world issues.
May 28, 2015 Tags: board of trustees, Jeffrey Aronson, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Rising to the Challenge, SAIS
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Giving, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Student-Related News
About 380 Johns Hopkins alumni, students, parents and employees and their relatives and friends are volunteering for Baltimore City at 10 sites on Saturday, May 2.
May 1, 2015 Tags: Baltimore City, community service, Freddie Gray, Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Three-term New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is providing initial funding for a new international policy institute at the Johns Hopkins University named in honor of his long-time friend, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
April 9, 2015 Tags: Henry Kissinger, Michael R. Bloomberg, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Rising to the Challenge, SAIS
| Category: Fundraising, Giving, Government and Politics, International Affairs, University-Related
A summary of relevant numbers and other background on “Rising to the Challenge: The Johns Hopkins Campaign.”
May 4, 2013 Tags: Rising to the Challenge
| Category: Giving, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
