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A colorful array of book covers selected by Johns Hopkins scholars and experts

Books

A few of our favorite reads

Published Dec 16, 2025

Johns Hopkins faculty and staff are a notoriously innovative, curious, and extremely busy cohort. Yet in the midst of an unusually hectic year, they made it a priority to set aside some time to read many good books—sometimes at the suggestion of their colleagues and friends (or even with their friends in at least one case). Here are some of their favorite reads of 2025.

Amit Peled strokes his chin as a student plays the cello behind him. Behind the student, more classmates stand and listen.

Name that tune

Peabody professor goes viral in TikTok challenge video

Published Dec 10, 2025

With 2.1 million views on Instagram and 1.3 million views on TikTok, Amit Peled's ability to recognize his cello students by sound alone has impressed the Internet

Dress rehearsal shot of Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara

Theater

Of space, time, and typewriters

Published Nov 25, 2025

Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and Johns Hopkins theater professor James Glossman co-authored the play 'This World of Tomorrow,' which premiered off-Broadway in November

An adult reads off their phone into a microphone. People listen in front of them.

Psychology

Your brain on fiction

Published Dec 1, 2025

A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research

Elam Ray Sprenkle, Peabody professor and prolific composer, dies at 77

Nov 25, 2025

Art historian Daniel Weiss to depart Johns Hopkins to lead Philadelphia Art Museum

Nov 21, 2025

Luneborch Prayer Book, Crucifixion with patron and his armorials at the foot of the cross, fantastical beasts, and historiated initial

A medieval art form, digitized

Oct 23, 2025

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Name that tune

Peabody professor goes viral in TikTok challenge video

Published Dec 10, 2025

With 2.1 million views on Instagram and 1.3 million views on TikTok, Amit Peled's ability to recognize his cello students by sound alone has impressed the Internet

Psychology

Your brain on fiction

Published Dec 1, 2025

A flash fiction contest hosted by The Hopkins Review uses short stories to push the boundaries of psychology research

Theater

Of space, time, and typewriters

Published Nov 25, 2025

Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and Johns Hopkins theater professor James Glossman co-authored the play 'This World of Tomorrow,' which premiered off-Broadway in November

In memoriam

Peabody faculty member Elam Ray Sprenkle dies at 77

Published Nov 25, 2025

An alum, Sprenkle taught at the Peabody Conservatory for more than 40 years

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Art historian Daniel Weiss to lead Philadelphia Art Museum

Published Nov 21, 2025

Weiss, a JHU alum who serves as Homewood Professor of the Humanities and senior advisor to the provost for the arts, previously led the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

A group of film students with a camera and microphone in an urban playground setting

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Film and media programs nationally ranked by TheWrap

Published Nov 3, 2025

Hopkins undergraduate and graduate programs land at No. 20 in rankings compiled by leading digital news outlet covering the entertainment and media industry