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A group in hard hats and yellow vests points at something in the distance while standing at a wastewater treatment plant.
Community
Designing for a wetter future
Published April 28, 2025
Environmental engineering students partner with Baltimore City to protect a major wastewater treatment plant from future climate-driven impacts
Aerial shot of the Port of Baltimore at sunset, looking across a container terminal and over industrial facilities along the quayside towards the city skyline.
21st Century Cities
Baltimore-area residents worry about effects of climate change on their lives
Published March 6, 2025
Survey data provides insight into how Baltimore-area residents feel about climate change
A painter in a yellow safety vest smiles for the camera while standing in a warehouse. In front of them is a canvas and easel, as well as a sea of boxes.
Visual arts
The art of a second chance
Published Jan 28, 2025 Video
A new exhibition of oil paintings and photographs made by JHU students highlights the objects and associates of a second-hand furniture warehouse
Aerial shot of Baltimore looking over residential streets in Greektown towards the downtown skyline
21st Century Cities
Survey shows decline in Baltimore-area food insecurity
Published Jan 23, 2025
JHU's wide-ranging annual Baltimore Area Survey also shows residents are more satisfied with their neighborhoods, government, and schools than a year ago
Beth Blauer
Community
JHU aims to enhance collaborations, impact in Baltimore
Published Dec 11, 2024
Beth Blauer, an expert in using data to help improve the work of governments, will lead a new effort to maximize the university's partnerships and investments to help fuel growth
A nurse stands outside of a building full of people
Community health
Nurses on call
Published Fall 2024
A School of Nursing pilot program brings health care to Baltimore neighborhoods by placing nurses and health workers in community focal points / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Two siblings hug each other on a Baltimore street corner
Shifting Perspectives
Published Spring 2024
Meet the six Baltimore-based artists whose work will be on permanent display at Johns Hopkins, helping to celebrate the city's flourishing artistic talent and build bridges between the university and surrounding communities / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A student kneels down next to a grave stone at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore
Humanities research
Overlooked history in sacred places
Published March 30, 2023
The course Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories brings together a community of scholars to discover, recover, and maintain Baltimore's Black cemeteries
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and artist Christopher Batten next to a portrait of Elijah Cummings
Names+Narratives
Elijah Cummings portrait honors 'devoted son of Baltimore'
Published April 28, 2022
Painting of the late congressman, created by Baltimore artist Christopher Batten, will hang in the university's MSE Library
Conceptual illustration of a woman with clouds surrounding her face. Doctors and other people are holding up the clouds
A needed community ally
Published Spring 2022
For nearly a decade, the Johns Hopkins Centro SOL program has promoted equity in health and opportunity for the Latino population of Baltimore / Johns Hopkins Magazine