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Hand holds a brown cardboard box of paper on a blue background
Shaking boxes—for science
Published Spring 2024
What shaking boxes can teach us about how our brains work / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The furry hand of an ape reaches out to touch a framed photo of a mom and baby ape
Apes remember old friends
Published Spring 2024
A study on apes' surprisingly long memories offers new insight into the evolutionary origins of human social memory / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Cover art for 'Behind You Is the Sea' features a red illustration of a Baltimore row home, with flowers growing from the roof
Assimilating to America
Published Spring 2024
Susan Muaddi Darraj's debut novel tells the intertwined stories of Palestinian Americans living in Baltimore / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Cover art for 'Waders' features a moody green illustration of a man walking through underwater seaweed
Sands of time
Published Spring 2024
Andrew Motion's new collection features 15 poems he has written since moving to from the U.K. to the United States / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of grenade and radio waves for feature story
Battle of the airwaves
Published Spring 2024
How to Win an Information War, authored by SNF Agora Institute senior fellow Peter Pomerantsev, chronicles the life of WWII-era propagandist Sefton Delmer / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Washington monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C, USA and Colorful Cherry blossom trees in spring
Arts+Culture
Cherry tree trailblazer
Published March 21, 2024 Video
Alumna biographer Diana Parsell discovers Eliza Scidmore, the forgotten heroine behind Washington's celebrated cherry trees
Daffodils on a spring day at Homewood
Undergraduate admissions
Hopkins adds to its Class of 2028
Published March 20, 2024 Video
The 1,749 students offered admission have the opportunity to join 809 students previously admitted to the class in the Early Decision cohorts
A college student fist-bumps Barbara Mikulski.
Undergraduate education
A gateway to D.C.
Published March 19, 2024
New Hopkins Semester D.C. program allows undergrads to pursue internships while living in the nation's capital
Total eclipse of the Sun. The moon covers the sun in a solar eclipse.
Q+A
There goes the sun. Again?
Published March 14, 2024
Just seven years after the last total solar eclipse, millions of Americans will once again be in the path of daytime darkness on April 8
Black and white photo of two children hugging on a street corner in Baltimore
Arts+Culture
Seeing Baltimore through a new lens
Published March 13, 2024
Meet the six Baltimore-based artists whose work will be on permanent display at JHU, helping to celebrate the city's flourishing artistic talent