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A highly decorative hand-embroidered tapestry, or sampler, on display at Baltimore’s St. James Episcopal Church
Community
Threads of history
Published July 1, 2024
Johns Hopkins' Inheritance Baltimore effort helps return a 19th-century embroidered sampler to a Black Baltimore church in time to celebrate its 200th anniversary
Flat Map With Location Pointer Illustration
Neuroscience
Brains can tune their navigation system without landmarks
Published June 27, 2024
Johns Hopkins team discovers visual motion clues alone help recalibrate your brain's internal GPS
Julie Lundquist
Sustainability
Sustainable energy expert Julie Lundquist to join JHU
Published June 25, 2024
Lundquist, a national leader in research in sustainable energy generation from wind, named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Wind Energy
Bees from Julia Burdick-Will's hives
Buzzworthy
Beekeeping with Julia Burdick-Will
Published June 21, 2024
An associate professor in the Department of Sociology shares her apian affinity
Susan Courtney
In memoriam
Visionary cognitive neuroscientist Susan Courtney dies at 57
Published June 13, 2024
Courtney's research focused on understanding the neural basis of higher cognitive function, and she was especially interested in how brain structure was affected by aging or disease
Blue skies with bright white clouds, looking up toward the Gilman Hall clock tower
Art + Mind
Baltimore writers to help scientists learn how brain processes stories
Published June 12, 2024
Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories; deadline extended to July 31
Chris Childers
Arts+culture
Chris Childers' epic accomplishment
Published June 12, 2024
Ten years in the making, poet and Writing Seminars alum Chris Childers' 956-page translation of Greek and Latin lyric verse is a 'personal odyssey' gathering over 80 poets from across eight centuries
Illustration of the Earth in a bright blue sky, with images of man-made construction on the surface
Science visualization
A visualization of everything on Earth
Published June 5, 2024
A new interactive visual depicts everything on the planet Earth, showing, with scientific precision and breathtaking profundity, how man-made things now outweigh all forms of natural life
Dorothy Ross
In memoriam
Historian Dorothy Ross dies at 87
Published May 29, 2024
The first woman to be named chair of the History Department, Ross's research focused on historical writing in the social sciences, revealing insights that transformed scholars' understanding of the past
Steven David holds class outside in March 2024
Q+A
Students debate Israel's future in long-running Hopkins course
Published May 16, 2024
Steven David's course helps students form and share thoughtful opinions about one of the most polarizing conflicts of our time