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School of Arts and Sciences

A highly decorative hand-embroidered tapestry, or sampler, on display at Baltimore’s St. James Episcopal Church

Community

Threads of history

Published July 1, 2024

Johns Hopkins' Inheritance Baltimore effort helps return a 19th-century embroidered sampler to a Black Baltimore church in time to celebrate its 200th anniversary

Flat Map With Location Pointer Illustration

Neuroscience

Brains can tune their navigation system without landmarks

Published June 27, 2024

Johns Hopkins team discovers visual motion clues alone help recalibrate your brain's internal GPS

Buzzworthy

Beekeeping with Julia Burdick-Will

Published June 21, 2024

An associate professor in the Department of Sociology shares her apian affinity

Paula Boggs, A&S ’81, with Christopher Celenza, dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Paula Boggs looks back at her time as one of the first African-American female students at Johns Hopkins, an experience that led her to establish the Nathaniel Boggs Jr. PhD Memorial Fellowship / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Illustration of an older, white-haired woman, standing in front of a large, framed picture of a girl in a cap and gown

Pioneering Women

Published Summer 2024

In 1974, the first undergraduate class at JHU to include women received their diplomas. Many of them recently returned to campus to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the university's coeducation program. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Bridging Generational Divides

Published Summer 2024

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Swimming in synch

Published Summer 2024

A new book by Vicki Valosik, 'Swimming Pretty,' probes the push and pull between art and athletics as it chronicles the untold story of women in water. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Alumni profile

The way maker

Published Summer 2024

Art historian Leslie King Hammond, A&S '73 (MA), '75 (PhD), reflects on her life spent championing Black and women artists—and a 1988 exhibit that jolted the art world / Johns Hopkins Magazine