Student Life

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Entrepreneurship

'Nonstop, relentless, inspiring'

Published April 4, 2024

The FastForward U innovation hub in Remington will be renamed in honor of Pava Marie LaPere, a trailblazing entrepreneur both at Johns Hopkins University and in Baltimore who died last year. A dedication ceremony is planned for Saturday, April 6.

Students on the DAVINCI+ team with their professor, who holds a phone so NASA engineers can participate via Zoom

Space science

Undergrads help NASA uncover the mysteries of Venus

Published April 8, 2024

Students are learning the ins and outs of the Venusian atmosphere and building a sensor for NASA's DAVINCI mission, thanks to the vision of APL planetary scientist Noam Izenberg and a small team of faculty experts

Headshots of Kyra Bowden and Grace Luettgen.

Undergraduate Honors

Two juniors named Goldwater Scholars

Published April 5, 2024

Goldwater Scholarship provides financial support to undergraduates pursuing research careers in STEM fields

A Penn State men's lacrosse player tries to stop an opponent from Johns Hopkins. Behind them, another Johns Hopkins player watches.

Image caption: Men's lacrosse pulled off a 9-8 overtime win against Penn State during Saturday's Big Ten game.

Credit: Will Kirk / Johns Hopkins University

Photos

This week in Jay-PEGs

Published April 11, 2024

Highlights include a huge Big Ten win for men's lacrosse and Alumni Weekend festivities

Mitt Romney to give Johns Hopkins Commencement address

March 28, 2024

New program gives Hopkins students a gateway to D.C.

March 19, 2024

Johns Hopkins invites 1,749 students to join its Class of 2028

March 20, 2024

Newest in Student Life

Students on the DAVINCI+ team with their professor, who holds a phone so NASA engineers can participate via Zoom

Space science

Undergrads help NASA uncover the mysteries of Venus

Published April 8, 2024

Students are learning the ins and outs of the Venusian atmosphere and building a sensor for NASA's DAVINCI mission, thanks to the vision of APL planetary scientist Noam Izenberg and a small team of faculty experts

Headshots of Kyra Bowden and Grace Luettgen.

Undergraduate Honors

Two juniors named Goldwater Scholars

Published April 5, 2024

Goldwater Scholarship provides financial support to undergraduates pursuing research careers in STEM fields

A framed photograph of Pava LaPere sits on a table.

Entrepreneurship

'Nonstop, relentless, inspiring'

Published April 4, 2024

The FastForward U innovation hub will be renamed in honor of Pava Marie LaPere, a trailblazing entrepreneur both at Johns Hopkins University and in Baltimore who died last year

an orange and white cat stands on its hind legs to look out a window

Science shows Baltimore's cats are friendly little guys

Published April 1, 2024

Postdoc Charlotte Fare has conducted a semi-quantitative analysis of the cats of Baltimore, surveying the appearance and disposition of a subset of the city's felines

Commencement 2024

Mitt Romney named Commencement speaker

Published March 28, 2024

Senator and 2012 Republican presidential nominee will address the Class of 2024 on May 23

Five students in white t-shirts smile while leaning over a fence at Homewood Field.

Community

Hopkins athletes give back to Baltimore

Published March 25, 2024

Blue Jays for Baltimore, a charity founded by current Hopkins football players, uses sports to improve youth well-being in Baltimore

Daffodils on a spring day at Homewood

Undergraduate admissions

Hopkins adds to its Class of 2028

Published March 20, 2024

The 1,749 students offered admission have the opportunity to join 809 students previously admitted to the class in the Early Decision cohorts

A college student fist-bumps Barbara Mikulski.

Undergraduate education

A gateway to D.C.

Published March 19, 2024

New Hopkins Semester D.C. program allows undergrads to pursue internships while living in the nation's capital

Team Awesome from the Waldorf School

Tower of power

Annual contest gets students noodling around

Published Feb 23, 2024

National Engineers Week competition pits area middle schoolers against Hopkins undergrads to build the tallest tower out of pasta and marshmallows

Awards+Honors

Ishan Kalburge awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Published Feb 23, 2024

Kalburge will investigate how humans form internal representations of uncertainty during decision-making

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