Tuition going up at Johns Hopkins Homewood campus
Tuition for liberal arts and engineering students at Johns Hopkins University will go up 3.5 percent this fall. The Baltimore Sun reports that tuition for the 5,400 graduates in the Krieger School of...
View ArticleO’Malley joins Metrolab Network
Martin O'Malley, noted for his use of data analytics during his time as mayor of Baltimore and governor of Maryland, is joining a organization focused better government through technology.
View ArticleAs yearbooks die, Md. colleges lose a link to the past
For 126 years, the annual yearbook of the Johns Hopkins University — called, at different times, the Debutante, the Hopkinsian and, most enduringly, the Hullabaloo — has documented a range of life on...
View ArticlePartnership will provide glasses to Baltimore youth
Every Baltimore City Public Schools student between pre-K and eighth grade will soon receive free vision screenings and — if needed — free eyeglasses. It’s part of the new Vision for Baltimore program,...
View ArticleJHU sees record number of Fulbright grants
Ever wanted to learn more about 17th-century anxieties over visionary experiences, as expressed through artwork at a Spanish monastery?
View ArticleJohns Hopkins ends use of live animals to train its med students
One of the country’s premier medical schools will no longer use live animals to train its students. Effective next month, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore will eliminate a popular but...
View ArticleVendor fair connects Md. food businesses to buyers
The idea of shopping local is one that most people support but often don’t do in practice. On Monday, some of the region’s biggest employers sought to change that. At the second annual “Made in...
View ArticleDaniels’ term as JHU president extended 5 years
Ronald J. Daniels’ tenure as president of the Johns Hopkins University has been extended by five years, meaning he is now slated to lead the institution through June of 2024. The move comes just two...
View ArticleJHU, UM among top schools filing patents, say inventors
Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland were among the top patent-filing universities worldwide in 2015, according to a report published this month by the National Academy of Inventors and the...
View ArticleReport: Md. 30th for student debt in Class of 2015
A new report ranking states by their average student debt puts Maryland in the No. 30 spot, with the average borrower that graduated in 2015 owing $27,148. Fifty-four percent of students who received...
View ArticleHopkins ranks 10th on U.S. News’ university rankings
Johns Hopkins University is holding steady as the 10th-best national university, according to the 2017 Best Colleges rankings published by U.S. News & World Report. The university reported a...
View ArticleJHU, UMB researchers, startups get funding awards
Researchers and startup companies from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore were awarded a total of $200,000 at the 2016 Innovation Showcase hosted by the two institutions...
View ArticleThese Md. companies are participating in the ‘cancer moonshot’
Maryland-based companies and organizations of all sizes are contributing to the national initiative to end cancer. More than 70 commitments to new actions, such as funding additional research, making...
View ArticleMikulski to join Johns Hopkins as professor, adviser
Former U.S. Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski will join the Johns Hopkins University on Jan. 16 as a professor of public policy and presidential adviser, the school announced Thursday. Mikulski will participate...
View ArticleHopkins incubator nurturing film industry in Baltimore
After reading about the first nationally known case of a UFO abduction from the 1960s, Laura Wexler was interested in turning the story into a film using virtual reality. But she knew nothing about how...
View ArticleHopkins’ president: Trump policy charts an ‘ominous’ course
President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugee policies last week spurred some business and university leaders in Maryland to offer personal statements about their own experiences...
View ArticleHopkins 4th among US universities for fundraising last year
Johns Hopkins University raised $657.3 million last year, the fourth-highest figure for universities in the U.S., the Council for Aid to Education reported. Overall, charitable contributions to...
View ArticleHenrietta Lacks’ family plans to sue Hopkins over use of cells
The son of Henrietta Lacks is seeking compensation for the unauthorized use of his mother’s cells in scientific research since her 1951 death, as detailed in a best-selling book. The Baltimore Sun...
View ArticleHopkins class competes to challenge extremism
A communications class at Johns Hopkins University wants to help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security fight ISIS. Students in Professor Leslie Kendrick’s Advertising and Integrated Communications...
View ArticleHey, Alexa: Amazon funds Hopkins fellowship
Amazon’s Alexa can already hail an Uber, order a pizza and organize your shopping list. Now she’s funding a fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Amazon announced a partnership with the university...
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