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Research in action

'Big-world data, small-town values'

Published Sept 30, 2025

Community bonds and NIH funding have helped scientists at a Johns Hopkins research field center in Hagerstown, Maryland, collect some of the world's best population-based data on cardiovascular disease risk

Research in action

Flu fighters

Published Sept 10, 2025

Experts at Johns Hopkins and across the country work together to better understand the behavior and characteristics of respiratory viruses, how our immune system responds to them, and how we can prevent serious illness

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Politics+Society

Program brings range of perspectives to contemporary topics

Published Sept 9, 2025

Projects co-led by scholars from JHU, the American Enterprise Institute earn support via program designed to enhance collaboration, deepen insights, promote intellectual pluralism

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The make-it-happen motivator

Published Sept 4, 2025

As executive assistant to the dean and supervisor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Donna Sims is the first face many encounter and a guiding force behind the scenes bringing excellence, empathy, and encouragement to everyone she meets

Environmental health

New carbon capture method improves sewage treatment process

Published July 23, 2025

By adding an electrical current to trigger chemical reactions, Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a way to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

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Environmental health

Curtis Bay air pollution linked to coal terminal activity, wind

Published July 21, 2025

Findings suggest that existing coal dust mitigation measures are insufficient

3 Questions

End of animals-only testing brings opportunities, challenges

Published July 16, 2025

Hopkins expert Thomas Hartung discusses NIH announcement that it will no longer consider grant proposals that do not include alternative testing models