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.
A summit of more than 20 of the world’s leading gun policy experts has identified research-based policies to reduce gun violence in the United States. The policy recommendations were the result of a two-day Summit on gun violence convened by The Johns Hopkins University on January 14 and 15, The Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis.
January 15, 2013 Tags: firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America concludes today [Tuesday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 15, 2013 Tags: Adam Winkler, Colleen Barry, firearms, gun policy, guns, jhugunpolicy, Philip Alpers
| Category: Government and Politics, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins-sponsored Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America convenes today [Monday, Jan. 14] and is available by webcast today and tomorrow for reporters wishing to cover it remotely.
January 14, 2013 Tags: Christopher Koper, Daniel Webster, firearms, gun policy, guns, Jeffrey Swanson, jhugunpolicy, Martin O'Malley, Michael R. Bloomberg, Stephen Teret
| Category: Government and Politics, Public Health, Public policy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University recently honored Ray Snow of Palm Beach, Fla., with its Heritage Award for his outstanding service to the university and its alumni association.
January 9, 2013 Tags: Heritage Award, Johns Hopkins Alumni Association, Ray Snow
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration
ince its launch in 2001, the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission has revolutionized our view of the universe, establishing a cosmological model that explains a widely diverse collection of astronomical observations. Led by Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett, the WMAP science team has determined, to a high degree of accuracy and precision, not only the age of the universe, but also the density of atoms; the density of all other non-atomic matter; the epoch when the first stars started to shine; the “lumpiness” of the universe, and how that “lumpiness” depends on scale size. Now, two years after the probe “retired,” Bennett and the WMAP science team are releasing its final results, based on a full nine years of observations.
December 21, 2012 Tags: Adam G. Riess, age of the universe, baby picture of the universe, big bang theory, Charles L. Bennett, dark energy, Gary Hinshaw, the density of atoms, University of British Columbia, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University is offering admission to 530 students into its class of 2017 through the early decision process.
December 14, 2012 Tags: admissions, class of 2017, early decision, Ellen Kim
| Category: Institutional News
Recipes can be rather imprecise: a dab of butter, a pinch of salt. But Johns Hopkins engineering students recently learned that maintaining rigid control of cooking temperatures, with less than 1 degree of wiggle-room, can lead to much tastier meals. Oddly enough, their cooking experiments occurred in an undergraduate course called Robot Sensors and Actuators.
December 13, 2012 Tags: cooking, cooking technology, heat sensors, mechanical engineering, Sous Vide, temperature control
| Category: Engineering, Student-Related News, Technology
Eleanor Gardner, a senior at The Johns Hopkins University, has been named Bermuda’s Rhodes Scholar for 2013. The Rhodes Scholarship is considered one of the most prestigious academic honors, offering all-expenses-paid study for two, and possibly three, years at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is given to approximately 80 young adults each year in the English-speaking world, including only one scholar each year from Bermuda.
December 11, 2012 Tags: Eleanor Gardner, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Rhodes Scholar
| Category: Arts and Humanities, Student-Related News
The Johns Hopkins University will contribute $10 million over five years to enhance and strengthen neighborhoods surrounding the university’s Homewood campus in northern Baltimore City, President Ronald J. Daniels announced.
December 6, 2012 Tags: HCPI, Homewood campus, Homewood Campus Partners Initiative, Ronald J. Daniels, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
Benjamin Carson, an internationally renowned physician and director of pediatric neurosurgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, has been appointed president of the board of the East Baltimore Community School Inc., effective Dec. 1. The board manages the operation of the Elmer A. Henderson School: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School – formerly known as the East Baltimore Community School (EBCS).
December 3, 2012 Tags: Benjamin Carson, East Baltimore Community School, Elmer A. Henderson: A Johns Hopkins Partnership School
| Category: Education/K-12, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing
In this competition involving freshman engineers’ inventions, batteries are NOT required – or even allowed. For a class assignment, 67 students from an introductory mechanical engineering course have built aerial vehicles that must move across elevated cables and drop a “payload” onto a bull’s-eye target five feet below. The challenge: these cable cars can possess no motors or batteries. All movement must come from mousetraps and rubber bands.
November 29, 2012 Tags: engineering education, engineering students, higher education, mechanical engineering, student competitions
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Technology
The Johns Hopkins University performed $2.1 billion in medical, science and engineering research in fiscal 2011, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending for the 33rd year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also once again ranked first on the NSF’s separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.88 billion in FY2011 on research supported by NSF, NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense.
November 28, 2012 Tags: APL, Applied Physics Laboratory, Department of Defense, federal expenditures, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Bagger, NASA, National Science Foundation, R & D
| Category: Institutional News, Uncategorized, University-Related
Mark Brennan, of Highland Park, N.J., was recently selected to the 2014 class of George J. Mitchell Scholars. Brennan is one of 12 college seniors and recent graduates chosen for their academic distinction, leadership and service. Recipients spend a year at institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland engaged in post-graduate work.
November 28, 2012 Tags: Mitchell Scholarship, scholarships
| Category: Student-Related News
Ten Johns Hopkins University mathematicians have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2013, the program’s first year. The designation recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of mathematics.
November 27, 2012 Tags: AMS, Bernard Shiffman, Christopher D. Sogge, Edward Sheinerman, Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, J. Michael Boardman, Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University, Jun-Ichi Igusa, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Steven M. Zucker, Takashi Ono, W. Stephen Wilson, Whiting School of Engineering, William P. Minicozzi II
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins School of Education will host a panel discussion about Maryland’s new statewide curriculum. The forum, “Ready or Not: Here Comes Common Core,” will be held at 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3 in Mason Hall Auditorium on the university’s Homewood campus.
November 21, 2012 | Category: Education/K-12, Events Open to the Public
Investment entrepreneur Jeffrey H. Aronson, a trustee since 2006, has been elected to serve as the 16th chair of The Johns Hopkins University board of trustees beginning July 1.
November 16, 2012 Tags: board of trustees, Jeffrey Aronson, Pamela Flaherty, Ronald Daniels
| Category: Institutional News, University Administration, University-Related
For most of history, humans rose with the sun and slept when it set. Enter Thomas Edison, and with a flick of a switch, night became day, enabling us to work, play and post cat and kid photos on Facebook into the wee hours. However, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins biologist Samer Hattar, this typical 21st- century scenario comes at a serious cost: When people routinely burn the midnight oil, they risk suffering depression and learning issues, and not only because of lack of sleep. The culprit could also be exposure to bright light at night from lamps, computers and even iPads.
November 14, 2012 Tags: Advance Online Publication, AOP, cortisol, depression, exposure to light at night, ipRGCs, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, limbic system, Nature, Prozac, Samer Hattar, Seasonal Affective Disorder, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Psychology, Public Health, University-Related
For devising a disposable suturing tool to guide the placement of stitches and guard against the accidental puncture of internal organs, an undergraduate biomedical engineering team from Johns Hopkins won the $12,500 first-prize Tuesday in the 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition.
November 13, 2012 Tags: biomedical devices, biomedical engineering, engineering students, student competitions, student inventions
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology
Three Johns Hopkins engineering students have won a $15,000 prize in a national sustainable development competition for adapting a traditional Korean paper-making technique into an inexpensive way for impoverished villagers to produce paper for schools.
November 12, 2012 Tags: engineering students, environmental engineering, paper-making, student contest, sustainable development
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Student-Related News, Technology
Chia-Ling Chien, the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics and the Director of the Material Research Science and Engineering Center at The Johns Hopkins University, is a winner of the first-ever Asian Union of Magnetic Societies Award, recognizing his “seminal contribution to magnetic materials, nanostructures, magnetoelectronic phenomena and devices.”
October 31, 2012 Tags: AAAS, American Physical Society, Asian Union of Magnetic Societies, Carnegie-Mellon University, Chia-Ling Chien, China, Daniel Reich, Fudan University, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, IEEE, Lanzhou University, magnetic materials, magnetoelectric phenomena, Material Research Science and Engineering Center, Nanjing University, nanostructures, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled in favor of The Johns Hopkins University’s motion for summary judgment in litigation filed against the university by Timothy Newell and others regarding the Johns Hopkins Belward Research Park. The university has issued a statement in response.
October 26, 2012 Tags: Belward Research Campus, Montgomery County
| Category: Institutional News, University-Related
Astrophysicist Brice Ménard of the Johns Hopkins University has been selected by the Maryland Academy of Sciences as the Outstanding Young Scientist of 2012. He received the award at a ceremony to be held at the Maryland Science Center yesterday. Ménard, an assistant professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, was recognized for his research in extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology.
October 25, 2012 Tags: American Astronomical Society, Brice Ménard, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, cosmology, extragalactic astrophysics, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for Physics and Mathematics, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Maryland Science Center, Max Panck Institute for Astrophysics, Outstanding Young Scientist of 2012, Tokyo University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized, University-Related
More than 1,000 members of The Johns Hopkins University community will fan out across Baltimore at noon on Saturday, Oct. 27, for President’s Day of Service, an annual volunteer event supporting the city’s nonprofit organizations.
October 22, 2012 | Category: Institutional News, JHU Community Connections
With just over two weeks to go before election day, undergraduates at Johns Hopkins University will gather to watch the third and final presidential debate Monday night.
October 19, 2012 | Category: Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
October 17, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA CONTACT: Lisa De Nike (443)-287-9960 (office) (443) 845-3148 (cell) Lde@jhu.edu Andrew Watson, a Royal Society research professor who studies the carbon cycle and its connection climate change, will give the George S. Benton Endowed Lecture in Meteorology and Fluid Dynamics at The Johns Hopkins University at 4 p.m. [...]
October 17, 2012 Tags: Andrew Watson, carbon cycle, climate change, George S. Benton Endowed Lecture in Meteorology and Fluid Dynamics, global resources, Homewood campus, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Morton K. Blaustein Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia, The Johns Hopkins University, United Kingdom
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related