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Archaeology
Evidence of oldest known alphabetic writing unearthed
Published Nov 21, 2024
Findings suggest alphabetic writing may be some 500 years older than other discoveries
Political scientist Glory Liu
Undergraduate studies
Program prepares students to tackle challenges of a complex world
Published Nov 19, 2024 Video
A new degree program in moral and political economy aims to give students the foundational skills and knowledge needed to think broadly about multifaceted problems
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Faculty Honors
Danielle Speller honored by American Institute of Physics
Published Nov 14, 2024
Co-sponsored by the National Society of Black Physicists, the award celebrates promising early-career physicists
A print of Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein on display at Peabody Library
Arts+culture
The Stein way
Published Nov 14, 2024
Sheridan Libraries exhibit explores the many facets of modernist matriarch Gertrude Stein
An artists' panel discussion for "Bearing Witness: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore" in September
A celebration of Inheritance Baltimore
Published Nov 12, 2024
Through panels, performances, and showcases, Inheritance Baltimore partners will share highlights and lessons from the past four years
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Election 2024
7 takeaways from the presidential election
Published Nov 11, 2024 Video
Experts and authors from both sides of the political divide discuss the 2024 election and what it means for the U.S. and the world
People voting in rows of voting booths with American flags on the side.
Election 2024
What did we learn from the 2024 Presidential election?
Published Nov 7, 2024
Johns Hopkins experts offer analysis about what led America to choose a second Trump term
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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 Video
Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds
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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