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Yara Shahidi sits on a chair while speaking into a microphone.
Life Design
Actress Yara Shahidi sits down with Hopkins students
Published March 14, 2025
The 'grown-ish' star answered questions about her career and mindset during a recent installment of the Horizons by Hopkins speaker series
Julia Ye outside the World Trade Center in Baltimore on a sunny summer day with blue skies
Undergraduate education
Student interns spend summer 'InBaltimore'
Published July 31, 2024
For 10 weeks this summer, 13 students worked 40 hours a week at nonprofits, government agencies, and companies around the city
An illustration in yellow and magenta of a worker before a metaphorical career path with arrows in several directions
Career course corrections
Published Winter 2023
The Alumni Life Design Experience course is a joint venture from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association and Integrative Learning & Life Design that guides alumni through career changes / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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National Intern Day
Hopkins helps connect grad students with internship opportunities
Published July 27, 2023
As more PhDs pursue careers outside academia, internships can help ease the transition, open doors to new career paths
Illustration of people lifting one person up to open a pink door
Alumni mentors broaden students' minds
Published Summer 2023
Many alumni mentor undergraduate and graduate students through both formal and informal opportunities offered by Integrative Learning and Life Design, in partnership with the Alumni Association / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Black graduate students attend the inaugural Black Excellence Conference
Professional development
Johns Hopkins hosts inaugural Black Excellence Conference
Published Jan 4, 2023
Program convening Black graduate and doctoral students focuses on identity, culture, and self-advocacy
Trevor Noah appears on a Zoom virtual meeting
Professional development
Trevor Noah to Hopkins students: Follow your passion
Published Nov 17, 2022
The comedian and longtime host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central delivered a keynote address during the Horizons by Hopkins conference
A group photo of 10 people holding awards
Mentorship
10 from Hopkins recognized with Career Impact Awards
Published Nov 17, 2022
The awards, supported by PHutures, celebrate individuals who provide outstanding mentorship or professional development for students and trainees
Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi on antiracism in higher education
Published Dec 9, 2021 Video
The author and scholar spoke at a virtual conference hosted by PHutures about the role universities and researchers play in dismantling racism
Julie Lythcott-Haims
Q+A
Mastering adulting
Published June 25, 2021
Self-help author Julie Lythcott-Haims discusses the challenges of transitioning from college to adulthood in advance of a talk she will give July 1