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Detail of the book cover has the title 'Homestand' written on the pink clouds of a sunset
The Boys of Summer
Published Summer 2025
'Homestand' isn't just a book about baseball—its real heroes are the fans / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of Jane Austen's world
Jane Austen lives on
Published Summer 2025
As the world celebrates Austen's 250th birthday, scholars share what makes the patron saint of marriage plots more popular today than ever before. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Detail of the cover of Shopgirls
End of the Innocence
Published Summer 2025
Jessica Anya Blau's new novel 'Shopgirls' is a charming, peppy tale of growing up in 1980s San Francisco / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Detail of the cover of 'American Poison' shows early model American cars
A Conversation with author Daniel Stone
Published Summer 2025
His book 'American Poison' chronicles the story of Alice Hamilton, whose decades-long legal battle to remove a deadly lead additive from gasoline pioneered the field of environmental justice / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Detail from the cover of Susan Choi's 'Flashlight'
Out of the darkness
Published Summer 2025
Susan Choi's sixth novel about the traumatic fallout of a father's disappearance blends themes of captivity, identity, and trusting one's intuition / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of musical therapy
Instruments of healing
Published Summer 2025 Video
At Johns Hopkins Hospital, music therapists use stirring rhythms and soothing melodies to support patients and their families during the hardest moments of their lives / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Dora Malech stands at the front of a room lined with books, leading a classroom of high school and college students
Community
Building community through writing
Published June 12, 2025
The Writers in Baltimore Schools program introduces high school students to the college experience while also providing undergraduates with teaching experience
Myrna Blyth
Commencement 2025
Embracing the joys of lifelong learning
Published May 15, 2025
More than 60 years after earning her bachelor's degree, Myrna Blyth enrolled in the master of liberal arts program at Hopkins. Blyth, who will graduate Monday at age 86, said this degree pursuit was 'less purposeful but more meaningful.'
JHU Shakati poses with their trophy after winning nationals. They are dressed in fancy Indian clothing.
Dance
JHU Shakti wins national dance competition
Published May 13, 2025 Video
The classical dance team emerged victorious in Chicago with a performance that critiqued India's caste discrimination
Martha Jones and David Yezzi
Faculty honors
Two faculty members named Guggenheim Fellows
Published April 24, 2025
Historian Martha Jones, poet David Yezzi among 198 scholars across 53 fields recognized for their achievements, exceptional promise