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Ebony McGee has joined Johns Hopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Inclusion in the STEM Ecosystem. She holds primary appointments in the School of Education and the Department of Mental Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is also part of the Advancing Racial Equity in Health, Housing, and Education cluster. McGee has dedicated her career to understanding and diminishing racism in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. She studies how racialized biases and marginalization impact graduate and career trajectories for high-achieving historically marginalized students, including Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Asian individuals. McGee has shown that racialized marginalization results in many forms of racial trauma, including impostor syndrome. McGee's book, published in 2020 and titled Black, Brown, Bruised: How Racialized STEM Education Stifles Innovation, proposes key reforms. She argues that a more equitable and inclusive STEM education for Black and brown students can be realized. Her systemic methodology targets the root causes of racial disparities in STEM rather than attempting only to manage their symptoms.

Suchi Saria, the John C. Malone Associate Professor in the Whiting School was named to Business Insider's 2024 AI Power List. The list spotlights the 100 most influential people in artificial intelligence this year as selected by the news site. Leading Insider's business category, Saria was recognized for her role as the founder and CEO of AI startup Bayesian Health, her research on AI in health care at the Johns Hopkins University, and her part in establishing the Coalition for Health AI. Saria's research uses sophisticated computer science and the deluge of data available in health care and other settings to individualize patient care and to save lives. Her pioneering work centers on enabling new classes of diagnostic and treatment planning tools for health care—tools that use novel state-of-the-art AI techniques to tease out subtle information from "messy" observational datasets and provide reliable inferences for individualizing care decisions.

Alex Brown joined Johns Hopkins as vice president of the Fund for Johns Hopkins Medicine. He comes from Emory University, where he spent 22 years in leadership roles, most recently as vice president for advancement. At Emory, Brown played a leadership role in two comprehensive campaigns that together raised more than $5 billion.

Rigoberto Hernandez, a professor of chemistry in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is the 2025 president-elect of the American Chemical Society, one of the world's largest scientific societies. He will serve as society president in 2026 and immediate past president in 2027. During those years, he will also be a member of the board of directors. His aim is to maintain the society's legacy and increase its value for modern chemists. Hernandez has been an ACS member for 32 years.

Johns Hopkins University faculty members Christopher G. Chute and Jeffrey D. Rothstein are among 100 scholars newly elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Chute is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Informatics, with primary faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing. He is the chief research information officer for Johns Hopkins Medicine, deputy director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Johns Hopkins, and head of the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Section in the Division of General Internal Medicine. The NAM recognized Chute for his work on how clinical data is represented to support data inferencing and discovery science in the learning health system, focusing on ontologies, classifications, and real-world data. He chaired the World Health Organization's International Classification of Diseases' 11th revision, which transformed the century-old system to support data science, and he co-leads many large-scale national repositories of electronic health record data to advance outcomes research. Chute joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2015. Rothstein is a professor of neurology and neuroscience at the School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research, director of the Brain Science Institute, and founder and co-director of the ALS clinic. He is also a member and ex-executive of the Association of American Physicians. The author of more than 360 research articles on ALS pathophysiology and on basic neuroscience, Rothstein is also the founder and director of the Answer ALS program, which combines longitudinal clinical data, at-home smartphone data collection, and generation of induced pluripotent stem neurons from more than 1,000 American ALS patients, and their comprehensive biological analytics, leading to a dataset of 6 billion biological and clinical data points per patient.

Five Johns Hopkins graduate students from the Whiting School and the School of Medicine were named 2025 Siebel Scholars in September. The honor recognizes the exemplary achievement in academia, research, and leadership of students working in areas that include biomedical engineering. Since its founding in 2000, the Siebel Scholarship has been awarded to 80 Johns Hopkins graduate students. Each Siebel Scholar receives $35,000 for their final year of studies. This year's Johns Hopkins honorees are Jieneng Chen, Anastasia Georgiou, Benjamin Killeen, Denis Routkevitch, and Fangchi Shao.

Janet L. Rathod, a senior information security leader with more than two decades of experience heading enterprisewide security teams in the public and private sectors, has been named vice president and chief information security officer at Johns Hopkins. She will work closely with senior security colleagues across the institution. Rathod joins Johns Hopkins from Citigroup, where she led cyberintelligence across multiple global teams. Her career also includes 16 years in the FBI as a member of the senior executive service, which governed the intelligence program for 56 field offices and four operational divisions. Rathod succeeds Darren Lacey, who has been named chief engineer for cybersecurity in the Information Technology Services Department at the Applied Physics Laboratory.

Alisha Knighthas been appointed to the newly created position of executive director of faculty diversity. She works collaboratively to promote equity and inclusion among Hopkins professors, focusing on supporting faculty from a range of diverse backgrounds. Her responsibilities support the hiring, retention, and advancement of faculty, and she manages initiatives including the Fannie Gaston–Johansson Faculty of Excellence Program. Knight joins Hopkins from Washington College, where she was both an administrator and an English professor.

Peabody faculty artist and acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves was named one of 11 U.S. Global Music Ambassadors. This partnership between the Department of State and YouTube elevates music as a diplomatic platform to promote peace and democracy in support of the United States' broader foreign policy goal, and in September Graves traveled to France to support the U.S. mission to UNESCO.

Jeremy Nathans, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Department of Neuroscience in the School of Medicine, received the World Laureates Association Prize in Life Science or Medicine, which brings an award of RMB 10 million, or about $1.4 million. This international science prize was initiated in Shanghai in 2021 by the World Laureates Association. Nathans is also the Samuel Theobald Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, and an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was honored "for discovering the genes, regulation, and plasticity underlying human color vision and elucidating disease mechanisms that lead to blindness." Each year, the WLA Prize is awarded in two categories: Computer Science or Mathematics and Life Science or Medicine.