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Johns Hopkins University and The Atlantic Host Civic Education Conference

WASHINGTON– The Atlantic and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) convened various leaders in education and business to discuss civic education on Wednesday at the Newseum in Washington D.C. The conference, Civics and the Future of Democracy, included six panels that discussed the meaning of civic education and the role […]

November 6, 2019

Why Does Harvard Have a Police Force?

In April and May, student protesters at Johns Hopkins University engaged in a civil protest against the establishment of a police department on their campus. As the university moved towards rolling out the police force, they quashed the students’ protest with the help of the Baltimore Police Department. While Johns Hopkins may have won the battle against the student protestors, the students’ activism has opened the door for other students around the country to attempt to preempt the establishment of police forces at their own universities.

June 19, 2019

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Johns Hopkins CDO Departing for Diversity Post at Law Firm

Fenimore Fisher, who in 2017 became the first vice provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer at Johns Hopkins University, is leaving July 12 to Advance recruitment, retention, development and promotion of diverse talent at DLA Piper LLP.

June 12, 2019

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Johns Hopkins University Purchases Newseum Building in D.C.

In an effort to consolidate the university’s operations in Washington, D.C., Johns Hopkins University has announced it plans to purchase the Newseum building, located on Pennsylvania Avenue. The university will purchase the building from the Freedom Forum for $372.5 million, pending approval. Johns Hopkins will renovate the building, including creating office and classroom space for […]

January 25, 2019

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Michael Bloomberg: Johns Hopkins University Needs Armed Police Force

Former Mayor of New York and major donor to Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg, recently said it’s “ridiculous” that the university does not have an armed police force. “When you have a city that has the murder rate that Baltimore has, I think it’s ridiculous to think that they shouldn’t be armed,” Bloomberg said. The […]

January 24, 2019

New Johns Hopkins University Building Named after Henrietta Lacks

Johns Hopkins University will honor Henrietta Lacks, a Black woman who was the source of the HeLa cell line that has been critical to numerous advances in medicine, including the development of the polio vaccine, studies of leukemia and AIDS, and chemotherapy.

October 9, 2018

New Platform Makes It Easier to Donate to Colleges

GiveCampus, a website that allows academic institutions to raise funds digitally, has announced that donations can now be made through Apple Pay, allowing the platform to become more accessible to potential school donors.

June 25, 2018

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17 Universities Oppose Anti-Smoking Group with Tobacco Ties

Seventeen public health schools in the U.S. and Canada pledged Thursday to refuse research money from a new anti-smoking group funded by the tobacco industry. The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World was created in September with nearly $1 billion from the Philip Morris tobacco company, saying it aims to end smoking worldwide and support research […]

January 25, 2018

4 Johns Hopkins Students Overdose at Fraternity Party

BALTIMORE — Officials say four Johns Hopkins University undergraduates were hospitalized for apparent opioid overdoses following a fraternity house party. The school mentioned the overdoses in a public safety advisory emailed to its student body Tuesday evening. According to the email, the Delta Phi fraternity has been suspended by its national organization and is not […]

May 10, 2017

Low-income, Minority Students Lag in High School Grad Rates

WASHINGTON — Despite rising national graduation rates, low-income and minority students continue to lag behind their peers in finishing high school, according to a study released Wednesday. While the national graduation rate for the year 2015 was 83.2 percent, it was only 77.8 percent for Hispanic students and 74.6 for Black students, said the […]

May 3, 2017

Faculty & Staff

Former Senator Barbara Mikulski Joining Johns Hopkins Faculty

BALTIMORE — Former U.S. Senator Barbara Mikulski will join the faculty at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The university announced Thursday that the 80-year-old Mikulski will start next week as a professor of public policy and an adviser to university leaders. Mikulski was the longest-serving woman in the history of Congress. The Baltimore native representing […]

January 12, 2017

Johns Hopkins’ Student Tutors Offer Youngsters Glimpse of Possibilities

The Johns Hopkins Tutorial Project is a program in which elementary school students get one-on-one help in reading and math from Hopkins students who volunteer.

December 28, 2016

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