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 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and building a citywide network to preserve Baltimore’s African American history, culture and arts.
January 13, 2021 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Baltimore Africana Archives Initiative, Billie Holiday Project for Liberations Arts, Immigration & Citizenship, Kali-Ahset Amen, Lawrence Jackson, Nathan Connolly, racism, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Arts and Humanities, JHU Community Connections, Libraries, Social Sciences
This is the first major exhibition to showcase some of the rarest and most spectacular treasures of the George Peabody Library, which was founded in 1857 by Baltimore tycoon George Peabody. Many of the extraordinary exhibit items will be on display to the public for the first time.
September 20, 2017 Tags: Bibliomania, Earle Havens, george Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins University, rare books, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Libraries, Peabody
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
Reporters are invited to cover Friday’s annual cleaning of the George Peabody Library, Baltimore’s “Cathedral of Books,” by a crew of library staff and volunteers.
January 13, 2016 Tags: george Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Libraries, University-Related
Sheridan Libraries of JHU Partner with Princeton Library and University College London on Mellon-Funded Project FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 10, 2014 MEDIA CONTACT: Brian Shields 410-516-8337/443-631-2890 bshields@jhu.edu The Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries, in partnership with University College London’s Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (CELL), and the Princeton University Library, have been awarded a […]
July 10, 2014 Tags: Sheridan Libraries, Winston Tabb
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Giving, Homewood Campus News
John Barth, a National Book Award winner, was a leading figure in the university’s Writing Seminars department, and his work is central to twentieth-century literary history, especially the development of the contemporary novel, the articulation of international postmodernism, and the identity of Maryland’s Eastern Shore in American literature.
January 6, 2014 Tags: Homewood campus, John Barth, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Homewood Campus News
The exhibition contains highlights from the world’s foremost private collection of Renaissance books, charting the prehistory of what we now call neurosurgery, and was guest curated by the collector Dr. Eugene S. Flamm.
October 17, 2013 Tags: george Peabody Library, Sheridan Libraries, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Uncategorized
The Program in Museums and Society, Department of Neuroscience, and Sheridan Libraries at The Johns Hopkins University announce the opening of Please Touch: An Interactive Study on the Neurological Mechanisms of Tactile Aesthetics in the quad-level lobby of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library on the Homewood campus. Curated by Hannah Weinberg-Wolf, a senior in the David S. Olton Program in Behavioral Biology, this exhibition introduces visitors to the neuroaesthetics of touch and aims to gather useful data from participants.
February 7, 2013 Tags: Department of Neuroscience, Elizabeth Rodini, Program in Museums and Society, Sheridan Libraries, Steven Hsiao
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Office of Communications Johns Hopkins University 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 Baltimore, Maryland 21231 Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920 February 21, 2012 TO: Assignment editors, reporters, producers FROM: Brian Shields / 410-516-8337 (office) / 410-631-2890 (cell) / bshields@jhu.edu RE: Johns Hopkins University and the Afro-American Newspaper Launch Event The Johns Hopkins University will host a […]
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Center for Africana Studies, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mellon Foundation, Sheridan Libraries
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University Administration
The Sheridan Libraries’ Center for Educational Resources (CER) announced today the launch of an online database (http://morgue.afro.com/AfroArchon/) describing the archival materials held by the Afro American Newspaper. The three-year project, administered jointly by CER and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Center for Africana Studies, was funded with a $476,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
February 21, 2012 Tags: Afro American Newspaper, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Center for Africana Studies, Franklin Knight, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Moira Hinderer, Sheridan Libraries, The Johns Hopkins University, Winston Tabb
| Category: Events Open to the Public, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
NVIDIA, the California-based visual computing technology company, has named Johns Hopkins University as a CUDA Center of Excellence, honoring the university’s pioneering use of GPU computing and the CUDA programming model across research within multiple science and engineering departments. The Center of Excellence will be headquartered in Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, bringing together the expertise of scholars from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering and the Sheridan Libraries to develop tools and methods capable of mining knowledge from the colossal data sets being produced today. Scientists from the Space Telescope Science Institute, located at the JHU campus are also partnering in the activities of the Center.
October 3, 2011 Tags: Alexander Szalay, CUDA Center of Excellence, data-intensive science, GPUs, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, IDIES, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, nVIDIA, Sheridan Libraries, Space Telescope Science Institute, The Whiting School of Engineering, visual computing technology
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology
The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded a $1.054 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to renew the Heritage Science for Conservation (HSC) Project. The project, which serves as a bridge between the art and science of conservation, is based in the Libraries’ Department of Conservation and Preservation and is run in close collaboration with the Whiting School of Engineering.
July 21, 2011 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Canadian Conservation Institute, george Peabody Library, Heritage Science Conservation Project, Johns Hopkins Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Institutional News
