In the largest commitment to solar energy in Maryland and one of the most significant pledges to greenhouse gas reduction in higher education, Johns Hopkins University has entered into a long-term agreement to supply its campuses with more than 250,000 megawatt hours of solar power per year.
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 Announces Major Solar Power Commitment
April 22, 2019 Tags: carbon emissions, Constellation, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, solar, solar energy
| Category: Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
World-renowned architect Renzo Piano to design SNF Agora Institute building
Renzo Piano, winner of architecture’s most prestigious prizes and creator of masterpiece buildings on five continents, will design the headquarters of the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at the Johns Hopkins University.
September 20, 2018 Tags: Agora Institute, Renzo Piano, Ronald J. Daniels, Stavros Niarchos Foundation
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
Kidney Disease Expert Wins University’s Frontier Award
Deidra Crews, an expert on chronic kidney disease and on racial disparities in the condition’s impact and treatment, is the 2018 winner of the university’s $250,000 President’s Frontier Award. With video of surprise presentation.
January 29, 2018 Tags: Deidra Crews, kidney disease, President's Frontier Award, Ronald J. Daniels, Takanari Inoue
| Category: Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
Wall Street’s Bill Miller Commits Record $75 Million to Philosophy Department
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
MEDIA ADVISORY: More Than 1,000 at JHU Ready for Baltimore Service Day
September 21, 2017 CONTACT: Jill Rosen Office: 443-997-9906 / Cell: 443-547-8805 jrosen@jhu.edu @JHUmediareps Painting, gardening and beautifying city neighborhoods. These are just a few of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help Baltimore on Saturday, Sept. 23, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 local […]
September 21, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, President’s Day of Service, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
MacKenzie Named Dean of Public Health
Ellen J. MacKenzie, an expert on improving trauma care systems and policy and a nationally renowned researcher, veteran academic leader, and Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1979, will be the 11th dean of the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
August 4, 2017 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ellen MacKenzie, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, Public Health, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Launches Effort to Improve Civic Engagement
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
Affirmation of Leading Research Universities’ Commitment to Progress on Climate Change
Johns Hopkins University has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability and mitigating the effects of climate change, joining 11 other leading research colleges and universities.
June 5, 2017 Tags: climate, climate change, global climate change, global warming, Ronald J. Daniels, sustainability
| Category: Institutional News, Public policy, University Administration, University-Related
MEDIA ADVISORY: JHU to Host Panel Discussion on Economic Inclusion and the Private Sector
Leading national and local voices on economic inclusion will gather at Johns Hopkins University to discuss the role of the private sector in expanding opportunity, including specific policies and strategies that have been implemented in Baltimore and elsewhere
May 15, 2017 Tags: 21st century cities initiative, Baltimore City, Ben Seigel, Calvin G. Butler Jr., Economic Inclusion, Johns Hopkins University, Mayor Catherine Pugh, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
Ridge Named Vice President for Communications
Susan Ridge, the chief marketing officer at Save the Children, has been appointed vice president for communications of the Johns Hopkins University.
May 8, 2017 Tags: Office of Communications, Ronald J. Daniels, Susan Ridge
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Christopher Morphew Named Dean of Education
Christopher C. Morphew, an experienced academic leader and prominent scholar at the University of Iowa College of Education, has been appointed dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Education.
March 23, 2017 Tags: Christopher Morphew, Johns Hopkins School of Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Education, K-12 Education, Ronald J. Daniels, School of Education, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Education/K-12, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Makes Progress in Goal to Build, Hire and Buy Locally
The Johns Hopkins University and the Johns Hopkins Health System hired 304 workers from Baltimore’s distressed neighborhoods and campus-area communities and committed $55.5 million of construction project spending with minority- and women-owned or disadvantaged businesses in the first year of their HopkinsLocal initiative, according to a progress report released today.
March 9, 2017 Tags: HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
MEDIA ADVISORY: HopkinsLocal One-Year Progress Report
Ronald J. Daniels, President of Johns Hopkins University and Ronald R. Peterson, President of the Health System and Executive Vice President of Johns Hopkins Medicine, will discuss the progress that has been made with HopkinsLocal, the initiative developed by Johns Hopkins to promote its commitment to build, hire and buy locally.
March 9, 2017 Tags: Baltimore, HopkinsLocal, Ronald J. Daniels, Ronald R. Peterson
| Category: University Administration, University-Related
President, Wife, Create Student Aid Endowment
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
Message from the President and Provost Regarding Federal Immigration Action
Johns Hopkins University leaders sent an email message on Saturday, Jan. 28, in response to the executive order on immigration issued a day earlier by President Donald Trump.
January 30, 2017 Tags: Donald Trump, immigration, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Retired Sen. Barbara Mikulski to Join University Faculty
Barbara A. Mikulski, the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress and Maryland’s longest-tenured U.S. senator, will join the Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 16 as a professor of public policy and presidential adviser.
January 12, 2017 Tags: Barbara Mikulski, Political Science, Public Policy, Ronald J. Daniels, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Libraries, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Joins Alliance to Expand College Access For 50,000 Talented Lower-income Students
The Johns Hopkins University is joining 29 other colleges and universities to expand by at least 50,000 the number of talented low- and moderate-income students at the U.S. undergraduate institutions with the highest graduation rates.
December 13, 2016 Tags: American Talent Initiative, Johns Hopkins University, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, Uncategorized, University Administration
$15 Million Establishes Clark Scholars Program
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
Klag to End 12-Year Run as Dean of Public Health
Michael J. Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health since 2005, a 32-year member of the university community and a world expert on the epidemiology of major chronic diseases, will step down as dean next year and return to research and teaching.
October 6, 2016 Tags: Bloomberg School of Public Health, dean, Michael Klag, Michael R. Bloomberg, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, University-Related
Sunil Kumar Named Johns Hopkins Provost
Sunil Kumar, dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a widely published expert on operations management and research, has been appointed the 15th provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins University.
July 15, 2016 Tags: provost, Robert Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels, Sunil Kumar
| Category: Business and Economics, Engineering, Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
$10 Million Gift Establishes Institute for the Humanities
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
Twenty-five Businesses Team up to Expand Economic Opportunities in Baltimore
A group of Baltimore-area businesses today unveiled a sweeping new plan aimed at harnessing their collective influence to help strengthen the city and create opportunities for Baltimoreans.
April 4, 2016 Tags: Baltimore City, BLocal, HopkinsLocal, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
Johns Hopkins Increases Investment in Restructured Baltimore Scholars Program
The Johns Hopkins University is proud to announce a shift in its Baltimore Scholars Program to offer greater financial aid and more robust supports to high-achieving Baltimore City Public School graduates with significant financial need.
March 25, 2016 Tags: admissions, Baltimore City, Baltimore Scholars Program, David Phillips, Financial aid, Johns Hopkins University, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University Administration, University-Related
Pineau Named Vice President and General Counsel
Paul Pineau, interim vice president and general counsel at the Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed to fill the position on a permanent basis.
March 7, 2016 Tags: Paul Pineau, Ronald J. Daniels, Vice President and General Counsel
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
University Leaders Announce Details of Faculty Diversity Initiative
Johns Hopkins University Provost Robert C. Lieberman and the deans of the university’s schools sent a message today to the university’s students, faculty and staff announcing a new Faculty Diversity Initiative at Johns Hopkins. This is the text of that message.
November 30, 2015 Tags: Faculty Diversity Initiative, Robert C. Lieberman, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related