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Annual report marks Hopkins' sustainability achievements
Published June 8, 2021
Over the past fiscal year, the university has significantly reduced carbon emissions and is on track to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goal three years early
Vaccination
Johns Hopkins joins College Vaccine Challenge
Published June 7, 2021
The initiative, launched by the White House, is part of a push from the Biden administration to have 70% of adults at least partially vaccinated by July 4
Alanna Shanahan named athletics director at University of Pennsylvania
Published June 2, 2021
Shanahan, who joined Johns Hopkins in 2016 and has served as vice provost for student affairs since 2019, will return to her alma mater this summer to lead an athletics department that includes 33 varsity programs
Diversity+Inclusion
University shares update on diversity and inclusions efforts
Published May 28, 2021
Feedback sought on set of 65 recommendations developed by Roadmap 2020 Task Force
Featured speaker
Bloomberg: 'Be present for others'
Published May 27, 2021
'Digital technology cannot replace physical togetherness,' entrepreneur, philanthropist, and JHU alum tells the Hopkins Class of 2021
President's remarks
'You are our beacons. Lead us toward a healed world.'
Published May 27, 2021
The upheaval that has marked the past year presents us with a 'rare opportunity for lasting, nontrivial, meaningful change,' President Daniels tells graduates
Honorary degree
Pioneering neurosurgeon, entrepreneur Ernest Bates honored
Published May 27, 2021
Bates, a 1958 Johns Hopkins graduate, was the first Black student in the university's School of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2021
New graduates join Order of the Engineer
Published May 26, 2021
The ceremony officially welcomed nearly 150 members of the graduating Class of 2021 to the engineering profession
Pediatrics
Pediatric medicine expert Eliana Perrin joins JHU
Published May 25, 2021
She is a leader in the field of pediatric primary care and childhood obesity; she comes to JHU from Duke University
In memoriam
Computer scientist Jan Vandenberg dies at 48
Published May 24, 2021
He helped propel citizen science forward with his astronomy projects and collaborations / The Baltimore Sun