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Provost charts new academic frontiers

Published Oct 29, 2024

Ray Jayawardhana reflects on JHU's momentum, innovation, and what lies ahead as he begins his second year at Hopkins

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Construction

Honoring a 'transformative legacy'

Published Oct 28, 2024

University and health system leaders were joined by members of the Lacks family and elected officials Monday to officially kick off an East Baltimore building project that honors the legacy of a woman whose cells have revolutionized science and medicine

Faculty honors

Johns Hopkins chemist Rigoberto Hernandez elected president of American Chemical Society

Published Oct 28, 2024

With more than 155,000 members, the American Chemical Society is one of the world's largest scientific societies

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Sustainability

Inaugural Campus as a Living Lab grants awarded to 10 projects

Published Oct 25, 2024

Grant recipients will use JHU's campuses to explore solutions for the university's new sustainability goals

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William G. Howell named dean of new School of Government and Policy

Published Oct 24, 2024

Howell, a scholar of issues related to separation of powers, political institutions, democratic reform, and the U.S. presidency, will join JHU from the University of Chicago beginning Jan. 1

University history

Recommendations made on fellowship, residence hall entry named for former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson

Published Oct 24, 2024

Johns Hopkins Name Review Board considers complex legacy of only U.S. president to hold a PhD, which he earned from JHU in 1886

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Sustainability

EPA recognizes JHU as a leader in green power

Published Oct 23, 2024

University purchases 60% of its total power needs from green sources, No. 4 among U.S. colleges that are part of the EPA's Green Power Partnership

Jhpiego President Leslie Mancuso to retire this summer

Published Oct 23, 2024

Since arriving in 2002, she has helped transform the JHU-affiliated nonprofit into one of the world's most highly-regarded global health organizations