Johns Hopkins names diversity initiative after Fannie Gaston-Johansson

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland) renames its initiative to promote diversity to the Gaston-Johansson Faculty of Excellence Program. Since the program was launched in 2015, the proportion of underrepresented minorities has risen by two percentage points, to ten percent in 2019. Fanny Gaston-Johansson is honored in this way since she was the first Black woman to become a tenured professor at Johns Hopkins, ie get a permanent research position. Prior to that, Fanny Gaston-Johansson was a professor at the University of Gothenburg.
“I believe that diversity among faculty researchers makes a big difference to how you talk to people, how you understand people and how you treat them”, comments Fanny Gaston-Johansson, now an emerita.