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Janiah Fields, the 2025 Top 100 Women Scholarship winner, is honored at the Maryland's Top 100 Women awards ceremony on May 5, 2025. At back, from left are Denise Koch and Suzanne Fischer-Huettner. (Maximilian Franz Photography for The Daily Record)
May 7, 2025

Top 100 Women Scholarship winner devotes time to Black mental health advocacy, prevention strategies

Janiah Fields, a Baltimore native and a senior at McDaniel College majoring in psychology, is the 2025 Top 100 Women Scholarship winner.

Virginia Tech Professor Ashley Dayer, shown in July 2023 in the Adirondacks, New York, says she was informed on Monday that her NSF funding for a research project examining the role of bird feeders had been canceled because the research touched on DEI themes. (Provided by Ashley Dayer)
Apr 25, 2025

‘I was shocked and saddened’: Trump science cuts target multiple disciplines, including in MD

Hundreds of university researchers, including in Maryland, had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled.

Students protesting against the war in Gaza, and passersby walking through Harvard Yard, are seen at an encampment at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Apr 15, 2025

Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power

Harvard University and the Trump administration are digging in for a clash that could test the limits of the government’s power.

The remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge over the Patapsco River after a container ship collided with the span on March 26, 2024. (Mira Beinart/Capital News Service)
Apr 2, 2025

Survey: About half of Baltimoreans felt impacted by Key Bridge collapse

About half of Baltimoreans say their daily lives are disrupted following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, according to a new survey.

The Johns Hopkins University said it laid off 110 employees in June 2026, citing cuts in federal research funding. (The Daily Record/File photo)
Mar 28, 2025

Trump restricts federal research funding, a lifeblood for colleges like Hopkins

After decades of partnership with the U.S. government, colleges like Johns Hopkins University are facing new doubts about the future of their federal funding.

Vials of Pfizer's updated COVID-19 vaccine are shown in 2022 during production in Kalamazoo, Michigan. (Pfizer via AP)
Mar 19, 2025

Ex-employee sues Johns Hopkins University for religious discrimination, citing COVID-19 vaccine requirement

A former employee sued Johns Hopkins University, alleging religious discrimination for denying her COVID-19 vaccination exemption request.

The Johns Hopkins University said it laid off 110 employees in June 2026, citing cuts in federal research funding. (The Daily Record/File photo)
Mar 13, 2025

Johns Hopkins University to cut 2,200 jobs amid lost federal funding

Johns Hopkins University said it is cutting more than 2,200 workers because of a loss of funding from USAID.

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Jan 29, 2024

New Johns Hopkins institute aims to make Baltimore an AI hub

Johns Hopkins University leaders say a new endeavor will make Baltimore a hub of the booming artificial intelligence industry.

Johns Hopkins University. (The Daily Record/File photo)
Sep 22, 2023

Md. commission overturns approval for contested programs at Hopkins, Stevenson

The Maryland Higher Education has rejected proposed doctoral programs at Johns Hopkins University and Stevenson University amid objections from two schools, including one of the state's historically Black institutions.

This photo provided by the Lasker Foundation in September 2022 shows Johns Hopkins University civil engineering professor Lauren Gardner in Baltimore. The 2022 Lasker public service award went to Gardner, an engineer who studies the spread of diseases. She worked with her lab team to develop the COVID-19 tracker as the coronavirus began spreading worldwide in January 2020. (Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University via AP)
Sep 28, 2022

Johns Hopkins scientist honored for COVID-19 tracker

A Johns Hopkins University scientist who created a website to track COVID-19 cases worldwide is the recipient of this year’s Lasker award for public service.

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Sep 13, 2022

Johns Hopkins team a finalist in collegiate inventors competition

Two Johns Hopkins University undergraduates and a recent graduate who developed a simpler and more comfortable brace to treat kids born with clubfoot are among the finalists in a national competition.

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Sep 12, 2022

Hopkins grad students behind two health care innovations for women

Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University are behind two recent health care innovations designed to make life easier for women.