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Mark Shiffman and Christopher Shallal work in their home engineering lab

Student life

There's no workspace like home

Published Jan 11, 2021

Christopher Shallal, Parker Treadway, and Mark Shifman have converted their pingpong table room into the manufacturing laboratory of their dreams, complete with metal-working stations, 3D printers, and electronics cabinets

Hopkins Student Center concept rendering

Design concept selected for Hopkins Student Center

Published Nov 2, 2020

The concept, submitted by the international architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group, features an open design with a large central campus living room, a variety of social spaces, themed community lounges, art and enrichment spaces, and dining options

Student experience

Tracing the path of COVID-19

Published Oct 12, 2020

Johns Hopkins students volunteer as contact tracers—an experience at once eye-opening, frustrating, monotonous, and rewarding

Student life

Give and bake

Published Sept 24, 2020

Over the summer, sophomore Christin Lê founded Lê Crumb Bakery, where 20% of all sales go to support Doctors Without Borders' COVID-19 relief efforts

On writing history's first drafts

Published Summer 2020

The Johns Hopkins News-Letter journalists work to make sure students' voices become part of the archives we use to tell stories about our past / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Hollywood up-and-comer

Published Summer 2020

With major roles in an Amazon original and the new 'Ghostbusters,' actress Celeste O'Connor is determined to use her star status—and Hopkins degree—as a force for good in the world / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Performing arts

Can't stop the music

Published May 6, 2020

With their on-campus routines upended, Hopkins students find new ways to sing, dance, and perform while still adhering to social distancing guidelines