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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
Jessie Kanacharoen created these photoshop images of the Beach on the Homewood campus surrounded by smog and turned into a literal beach
Undergraduate education
Embrace the change
Published June 21, 2021
In a semester when the world still felt hemmed in by the virtual nature of most interactions, Krieger School faculty and teaching assistants had to draw on their creativity to connect with students through screens
Keyser Quad on the university's Homewood campus
University operations
University leaders provide spring semester planning update
Published Oct 1, 2020
In a message to undergraduate students, Provost Sunil Kumar and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Alanna Shanahan discuss the principles guiding decision-making
Gilman clock tower
University operations
Undergraduate instruction, activities move online for fall
Published Aug 6, 2020 Video
Students urged to stay home due to resurgence of COVID-19; JHU increasing financial aid and other supports to offset pandemic's burden
Professor in class
Undergraduate education
Committee outlines new model for undergrad education at JHU
Published Feb 5, 2020
Members of the Hopkins community invited to share feedback on CUE2 draft report online or in person