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Veterans Day

Hopkins honors veterans

Published Nov 12, 2024

The Johns Hopkins community marked Veterans Day on Monday with a Homewood campus event honoring those who have served in the military and armed forces. The event featured remarks from Admiral Gary Roughead, and JHU President Ron Daniels used the occasion to announce the creation of a university veteran employee resource group.

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Search committee formed to identify next Jhpiego president, CEO

Published Nov 18, 2024

15-member committee will help lead a global search for a successor to Leslie D. Mancuso, who will retire at the end of June

James Allan appointed assistant vice president for Alumni Relations

Published Nov 15, 2024

Allan has nearly two decades of experience in alumni relations and development at universities in Canada and Australia

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Faculty Honors

Danielle Speller honored by American Institute of Physics

Published Nov 14, 2024

Co-sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists, the award celebrates promising early-career physicists

Local leaders celebrate Johns Hopkins impact on Baltimore

Nov 1, 2024

Provost Ray Jayawardhana is charting new academic frontiers

Oct 29, 2024

Johns Hopkins breaks ground on building named in honor of Henrietta Lacks

Oct 28, 2024

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In memoriam

David Yarkony, renowned expert in theoretical chemistry, dies at 75

Published Nov 26, 2024

Yarkony, whose research changed scientists' understanding of radiationless decay, had been part of JHU's Department of Chemistry since 1975

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Undergraduate studies

Program prepares students to tackle challenges of a complex world

Published Nov 19, 2024

A new degree program in moral and political economy aims to give students the foundational skills and knowledge needed to think broadly about multifaceted problems

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Search committee formed to identify next Jhpiego president, CEO

Published Nov 18, 2024

15-member committee will help lead a global search for a successor to Leslie D. Mancuso, who will retire at the end of June

James Allan appointed assistant vice president for Alumni Relations

Published Nov 15, 2024

Allan has nearly two decades of experience in alumni relations and development at universities in Canada and Australia

Photo of Danielle Speller

Faculty Honors

Danielle Speller honored by American Institute of Physics

Published Nov 14, 2024

Co-sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists, the award celebrates promising early-career physicists

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In Memoriam

Diane Edmund Griffin, Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute founder, dies at 84

Published Nov 1, 2024

Griffin joined Johns Hopkins in 1970, where she completed groundbreaking research in virology and was founding director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute

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HopkinsLocal

Making an impact in Baltimore

Published Nov 1, 2024

With HopkinsLocal, the university and health system have spent more than $1 billion with Baltimore businesses since the initiative's 2015 launch

Student services

JHU commences work to replace SIS

Published Oct 30, 2024

After more than 20 years of use, JHU's Student Information System, or SIS, will be replaced with a new version that fits modern needs

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University News

New initiative to nurture 'dialogue across difference'

Published Oct 30, 2024

From residence hall programming to new grants for faculty, JHU will expand on its history of reaching across divides with new dialogue endeavor

Ray Jayawardhana

Q+A

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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