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Election 2024

Dashboard tracks campaign spending

Published Nov 4, 2024

Millions of campaign finance records are available through the new dashboard, which deploys machine learning across six million expenditure records reported by the nation's two main political parties

A toddler gets ready to select a toy from the machine, during the experiment.

Child development

Toddlers understand possibility

Published Nov 4, 2024

Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds

Faculty honors

Johns Hopkins chemist Rigoberto Hernandez elected president of American Chemical Society

Published Oct 28, 2024

With more than 155,000 members, the American Chemical Society is one of the world's largest scientific societies

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Election 2024

Poll: Nearly half of voters think those from other party are 'evil'

Published Oct 27, 2024

New SNF Agora/YouGov poll shows Harris gains, Trump maintains, and the divide between 2020 election deniers and the rest of the electorate grows

Local historians gather at Bmore Historic, a roomful of people excitedly sharing information

Baltimore history

Unpacking the past

Published Oct 17, 2024

A gathering of 168 history enthusiasts, including several Hopkins students, convened Sept. 27 to share fresh perspectives on a traditionally academic topic

From left, Dingchang Lin and Ziquan Zhuang

Faculty honors

Two researchers named Packard Fellows

Published Oct 15, 2024

Dingchang Lin, Ziquan Zhuang among 20 recipients of prestigious fellowship that supports creative and innovative lines of research by early career scientists