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.
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shani McPherson Office: 410-516-4778 Cell: 510-393-7159 sprovos1@jhu.edu WHAT: More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: Engineering, event, HopHacks, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Technology
Demi Lovato’s drug overdose and Anthony Bourdain’s suicide resulted in unequal news coverage of national help hotlines, finds a new study published Jan. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
January 14, 2019 Tags: celebrity, computer engineering, drug overdose, Google, Mark Dredze, media, news coverage, substance abuse, suicide, Twitter, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology
More than 300 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete Saturday in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 10, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup, K-12 Education, K-12 science competition, Robotics, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
November 12, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Coppin State University, diversity, Morgan State University, post-doctoral fellows, School of Medicine, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering has created a doctoral engineering program to serve the needs of working engineering professionals and to meet the growing demand for engineers who have the advanced knowledge needed to solve challenging problems.
September 18, 2018 Tags: DEng, doctoral engineering program, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
Media advisory: Background for reporters on the heat shield that will protect NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as it swoops through the solar atmosphere, less than 4 million miles from the surface of the sun.
August 8, 2018 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, materials science, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, sun, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University has been awarded up to $30 million to lead a consortium of three Mid-Atlantic universities that will work together on research projects with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
August 6, 2018 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Morgan State University, National Institute of Standards and Technology, tate University of New York at Binghamton, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology
A new partnership between the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will bring students from that country to Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus to pursue doctoral studies in engineering beginning in August 2019.
June 20, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Homewood campus, mechanical engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, International Affairs, Uncategorized
Engineering undergraduates have developed an anti-bleeding “super gel” that can be delivered with a catheter but is hyper-absorbent enough to then swell with blood, creating a clot to block any bleeding.
April 17, 2018 Tags: materials science, student design competition, undergraduate research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Student-Related News
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
Two Johns Hopkins materials science graduate students and their professors played a key role in a multi-institution research project that pinpointed how a tiny protein seems to make the deadly Ebola virus particularly contagious.
August 21, 2017 Tags: Ebola, Ebola virus, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, materials science, nanobiotechnology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing
Nine faculty members from The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering have been named Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
March 21, 2017 Tags: AIMBE Fellows, bioengineering, biological engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Technology
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in nursing, education, medicine, and biomedical engineering are considered among the best in the country, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 14, 2017 Tags: biomedical engineering, geriatric medicine, graduate schools, nursing, rankings, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, U.S. News & World Report, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, JHU Community Connections, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
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
About 160 high school students at the Johns Hopkins Baltimore campus — and another 425 students across the country — will compete in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, marking the culmination of a four-week summer course called Engineering Innovation.
July 20, 2016 Tags: Engineering, Engineering Innovation, high school, Johns Hopkins University, Spaghetti bridge contest, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Tuition for full-time liberal arts and engineering undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.5 percent this fall while the financial aid budget supporting those students rises 5 percent.
April 29, 2016 Tags: Financial aid, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Peabody Conservatory, tuition, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 11, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, computer science, Ed Schlesinger, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, middle school education, Ronald J. Daniels, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 5, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
The Johns Hopkins University’s new personal protective suit for front-line health care workers in Ebola outbreaks has been honored as one of 10 finalists in the Social Good category of Fast Company’s 2015 Innovation by Design Awards.
September 14, 2015 Tags: biomedical engineering, Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, Ebola, Jhpiego, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
About 160 high school students will compete in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, marking the culmination of a four-week summer course called Engineering Innovation.
July 21, 2015 Tags: Engineering Innovation, Johns Hopkins University, spaghetti bridge, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News
Electricity systems in the United States are so haphazardly regulated for reliability, it’s nearly impossible for customers to know their true risk of losing service in a major storm, a Johns Hopkins University analysis found.
May 27, 2015 Tags: electric utilities, Hurricane Sandy, Johns Hopkins University, power outage, Roshanak Nateghi, Seth Guikema, tropical storm, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Government and Politics, Public Health
The Johns Hopkins University has admitted 2,525 students to complete the Class of 2019, selected from a record applicant pool of 24,717. These students joined 540 future Blue Jays who have already enrolled at the university under the Early Decision admission plan.
March 27, 2015 Tags: admissions, Class Of 2019, Ellen Kim, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News
A record number of high school students applied early decision to the Johns Hopkins University this fall, identifying it as their top choice and committing to attend if admitted.
December 12, 2014 Tags: Class Of 2019, early decision, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
Carey Priebe, a noted mathematician in Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation EAGER grant for his work exploring the complex behaviors of the brain’s circuitry.
August 21, 2014 Tags: applied mathematics and statistics, brain research, Carey Priebe, EAGER grant, fruit fly, National Science Foundation, neuroscience, NSF, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Uncategorized
A flying trapeze artist. The winner of Delaware’s Young Playwrights Festival three years running. A competitor on “The Biggest Loser” who’s now dedicated to fighting obesity. The creator of an app for cancer patients. A professional skateboarder who writes a food blog. The teacher of a free robotics course for special needs students.
These dynamic students are among Johns Hopkins University’s incoming freshman class who will be moving onto campus this week.
August 20, 2014 Tags: Class of 2018, Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, University-Related
