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Aerial photograph of the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD, showcasing the Harbor Wetland, which consists of grasses that float on the water's surface
Exhibition
Floating Wetlands
Published Fall 2024
Omar Lloyd, A&S '20, helped the National Aquarium bring a tidal salt marsh back to the Inner Harbor / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Zoe Bell, a white woman with short brown hair, sits in a park at a table that's painted to look like a checkerboard
Vignette
Her work? All play
Published Fall 2024
Zoe Bell, A&S '09, is the executive producer of games for The New York Times / Johns Hopkins Magazine
the words 'circle of hope' against a yellow and orange background
Ball of confusion
Published Fall 2024
To write 'Circle of Hope,' alum Eliza Griswold spent four years embedded within an evangelical church / Johns Hopkins Magazine
a collage that creates the american flag. the stripes consist of pieces of writing from the American Prison Writing Archive
Writing within prison walls
Published Fall 2024
Johns Hopkins houses the country's largest digital collection of writings by incarcerated people / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Ronald Paulson
In memoriam
Literary scholar Ronald Paulson dies at 94
Published Sept 10, 2024
Paulson questioned assumptions throughout his career about the role and power of art, and how cultural developments changed how art was perceived
View from the Mariana Trench, the deepest depths in the Western Pacific, 3d render illustration
Biology
AI helps reveal how life's building blocks adapt to high pressure
Published Sept 10, 2024
The findings by Johns Hopkins researchers show the potential of AI to dramatically increase the speed of scientific discovery
Paulette Clancy
Artificial intelligence
JHU, Morgan State partner for AI-driven microelectronics training
Published Sept 6, 2024
A $2.7 million NSF grant will launch a program to train a diverse graduate-student workforce to revolutionize semiconductor and microelectronics processing
George M. Wilson
In memoriam
George M. Wilson, philosopher of aesthetics who spent 28 years at Johns Hopkins, dies
Published Aug 28, 2024
Wilson, who left JHU in 2000, specialized in the philosophy of film, theory of action, philosophy of language, and the work of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
A nebula made up of cloudy gas and dust in the form of soft and wispy clouds and, in the centre, thin and highly detailed layers pressed close together. Large, bright stars surrounded by six long points of light are dotted over the image, as well as some small, point-like stars embedded in the clouds. The clouds are lit up in blue close to the stars; orange colours show clouds that glow in infrared light.
Astrophysics
Possible clues to how stars are born
Published Aug 27, 2024
Survey of young star-forming cluster offers evidence that the same cosmic processes that give birth to stars may also play a role in making objects only slightly bigger than Jupiter
Peter Pomerantsev and Anne Applebaum
Politics+Policy
Hopkins experts anchor new podcast on autocracy in the U.S.
Published Aug 19, 2024
Series features Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev, both senior fellows at the university's SNF Agora Institute