Nexus Awards

The Nexus Awards are a university-wide initiative launched in 2023 to support convening, research, and teaching anchored at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Awarded projects and programs span the breadth of the faculty’s scholarship and expertise: Artificial intelligence and health policy, the arts and humanities, planetary health and gender equity, and much more.

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2026 Nexus Awards recipients announced

The projects span every academic division of the university and include more than 100 scholars exploring a variety of topics, from AI in transportation and rare disease therapies to research in art history and public-private-university partnerships for American space leadership.

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  • Convening

    Awards up to $100,000 for up to one year for the development and execution of a conference or a series of related events on any topic, to be hosted at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Example:National Care Without Borders: Catalyzing New Pathways for Cross-State Telehealth (School of Medicine)

  • Research

    Awards up to $300,000 for up to two years, focusing on either a new area of collaborative work or an expansion of an ongoing area of collaborative work in fundamental, clinical, or applied research, or projects within the arts and humanities. Example:Transparency and Increasing Resiliency in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (School of Public Health)

  • Teaching

    Awards up to $25,000 for up to one year (with the option to renew for a second year) for undergraduate or graduate courses and co-curricular opportunities that will make significant use of the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. Example: “National Symphony Orchestra Masterclass” —Marin Alsop (Peabody)

“Since 2023, faculty from across our One University have harnessed Nexus Awards to bring our Hopkins Bloomberg Center to life as a hub of robust debate and dialogue. We are grateful to sustain this tradition with a third cohort of Nexus Awards recipients, who will continue to mobilize ideas, expertise, and insights to help address society’s most challenging concerns.”

JHU President Ron Daniels

previous Nexus Awardees

Every spring since 2023, more than 150 convening, research, and teaching endeavors based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center have been selected to receive funding from the Nexus Awards Program. Projects explore a range of topics, including musicians’ health advocacy, AI-enhanced forensics, and exposomics.

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