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Three college students smile for the camera while holding up a homemade mechanical toy vehicle shaped like a piece of pizza.
Mechanical Engineering
First-year engineers' minicars battle it out on racetrack
Published Dec 9, 2025
Mechanical Engineering's annual first-year design competition displayed a vast array of automobiles
Professor RT Ramesh teaches in front of a class. Behind him is a powerpoint titled "Predicted Impact Footprint in 2031" with an image of a simulated asteroid impact.
Undergraduate Studies
How to protect the planet from an asteroid threat
Published Dec 9, 2025
Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering and sociopolitical sides of planetary defense
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Intersession 2026
SNF Agora explores democracy through new Intersession courses
Published Dec 3, 2025
This year's SNF Agora Intersession classes will spark discussions on how democracy intersects with comedy, technology, and global activism
Yellow fall leaves on the Homewood campus
JHU hosts 2025 First-Generation Lower-Income Consortium conference 
Published Nov 18, 2025
The gathering of administrators and faculty aims to build community and share best practices among peer institutions from across the country
A male student sets up a wooden vehicle on a wooden ramp
Mechanical engineering
Student designs take flight
Published Dec 9, 2024
At the 2024 MechE Freshmen Design Challenge, 22 teams of first-year mechanical engineering students showed off their small vehicle designs in a fun competition
Political scientist Glory Liu
Undergraduate studies
Program prepares students to tackle challenges of a complex world
Published Nov 19, 2024 Video
A new degree program in moral and political economy aims to give students the foundational skills and knowledge needed to think broadly about multifaceted problems
A green room with stained glass windows, hanging lights, and desks where students are studying
Common Question
A big idea for all to ponder
Published Oct 1, 2024
In first-year seminars and extracurricular programming offered by the Writing Center, students are invited to consider what it means to be human
Students walk on a red brick campus walkway
Undergraduate studies
Major help for undergrads
Published Feb 13, 2024
JHU's first-ever Major Fair will give undergraduate students a chance to talk to faculty and student representatives from prospective majors and minors
Students sitting in the audience of an MSE Symposium lecture
'A new experience of wow'
Published Jan 23, 2023
Upperclassmen reflect on their first semester free of COVID-19 restrictions since spring 2020
Demere Woolway and Michael Falk
Undergraduate education
Course examines sexual and gender identity in STEM
Published Dec 1, 2022
In First Year Seminar, Johns Hopkins undergrads explore the history of LGBTQ people in STEM and how science in turn affects the lives of LGBTQ people