Announcements Archive


DREAMS event returns April 5, presented by the Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR)

Save the date for the annual DREAMS event from 1–4 p.m., Friday, April 5, presented by the Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research (HOUR). All undergrad’s are encouraged to register and present & all faculty, staff, post docs, grad students, non-presenting undergrads, friends, family and alumni are encouraged to attend. The goal of DREAMS is to […]


DREAMS 2018 is coming to the Goldfarb Gym at the O’Connor Recreation Center on April 27

All undergrad’s are encouraged to register and present & all faculty, staff, post docs, grad students, non-presenting undergrads, friends, family and alumni are encouraged to attend to DREAMS, HOUR’s 2nd annual celebration of undergraduate research, scholarly, and creative projects on Friday, April 27, 2018 from 1 – 4pm in the Goldfarb Gym at the O’Connor Rec […]


Aspiring doctor is first Johns Hopkins student to earn Astronaut Scholarship

Rising senior Alfred Chin is the first Johns Hopkins University student to receive the Astronaut Scholarship, an award founded by the first U.S. astronauts, collectively dubbed the Mercury Seven. Chin, 21, is a neuroscience and biophysics double major. He works in a lab at JHU’s Department of Neuroscience, where his research focuses on the ways […]


Two student-athletes receive prestigious NCAA postgrad scholarships

The honors continue to roll in for a pair of Johns Hopkins student-athletes who graduated last month. Lindsay Cheu and Andy Greenhalgh have earned NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships it was announced recently. The NCAA selected 29 male athletes and 29 female athletes from all winter sports and all divisions and each of the 58 student-athletes will […]


From Arts & Sciences Magazine: Flipped Learning

Two years ago, Brenda Rapp looked out over the crowded lecture hall during her introductory cognitive neuroscience course and saw many students smiling and tapping on their laptops. Which was fine, except that no one smiles at lecture notes. “They were doing email, Facebook, whatever,” says Rapp, professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive […]


DREAMS 2017 (formerly URD) will be held on Friday, April 21

The Johns Hopkins University will be hosting the Day of Undergraduate Research in Engineering, the Arts & Humanities, Medicine and the Sciences which will be held on Friday, April 21 from 1-4 p.m. in the Goldfarb Gym, Ralph O’Conner Recreation Center (Homewood Campus).


Neuroscientist Patricia Janak Named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

The second cohort of Bloomberg Distinguished Professors was announced this past summer, including neuroscientist Patricia Janak, who studies the biological basis of behavior and associative learning, with a particular focus on addiction. She is a member of the Krieger School’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and of the School of Medicine’s Department of Neurology.