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School of Arts and Sciences

Voices

Conversation series aims to foster dialogue on difficult topics

Published Jan 23, 2025

'Conflict in the Middle East: Contexts and Ramifications' will bring together experts from a variety of perspectives while demonstrating that civil discussions can take place around contentious and complex issues

Christopher Cannon

Literature

Classical giant

Published Jan 23, 2025

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new scholarly-yet-accessible set

Four young girls

Film

Film series launches at Hopkins Bloomberg Center

Published Jan 21, 2025

Stories That Matter series opens with Oscar shortlisted documentary film 'Daughters' on Feb. 21

Rachel Williams, a Stern Center Curatorial Fellow, works with a 17th-century “paper supercomputer” created by Italian friar Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. By twisting its wheels, users can perform complex astrological and astronomical calculations, determine Catholic feast days, and more.

Arts+Culture

Browsing through history

Published Jan 17, 2025

The Johns Hopkins Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance provides many opportunities for students and researchers to gain archival experience

conceptual illustration with linear patterns, geometric shapes

Artificial intelligence

Arts and sciences meets AI

Published Jan 7, 2025

How researchers are tapping into the power of artificial intelligence to propel research advances in history, sociology, and more

Cell biology

Structural biology expert Yuan He named BDP

Published Jan 2, 2025

He explores how flaws in the transcription and DNA repair pathways contribute to cancer predisposition, accelerated aging

Chef Kat prepares ingredients for the dish.

HAPPENINGS

KSAS serves up a fresh approach for supporting well-being

Published Dec 18, 2024

HR and 1876 Distinction team up for a hands-on cooking class

Concept art depicting two white dwarf stars of equal mass but differing temperatures. The hotter white dwarf on the left appears slightly larger and puffier, surrounded by a glowing blue halo, while the cooler white dwarf on the right looks more compact and has a slightly less pronounced halo. The background consists of a dark starry sky with faint nebular patterns.

Astrophysics

Study confirms key details of extreme stellar behavior

Published Dec 18, 2024

Telescope observations of more than 26,000 dying stars match theories of hotter, puffier white dwarfs

Anne Applebaum, Henry Farrell, and Sergey Radchenko

Faculty books

Three Johns Hopkins scholar-authors on 'Foreign Affairs' best books list

Published Dec 10, 2024

Works by Anne Applebaum, Henry Farrell, and Sergey Radchenko are among reviewers' top picks for 2024

Rope with reef knot isolated on white background.

Human perception

Judging knots throws people for a loop

Published Dec 9, 2024

Experiment reveals new blind spot in our physical reasoning: Most people cannot tell a weak knot from a strong one by looking at them