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Yara Shahidi sits on a chair while speaking into a microphone.
Life Design
Actress Yara Shahidi sits down with Hopkins students
Published March 14, 2025
The 'grown-ish' star answered questions about her career and mindset during a recent installment of the Horizons by Hopkins speaker series
A smiling Tim Ma leans against a wall while wearing a kitchen apron.
Q+A
Chef Tim Ma is back for seconds
Published March 14, 2025
The new Hopkins Student Center will feature a sit-down restaurant, coffee shop, and Chinese-American food stall from acclaimed restaurateur and alum Tim Ma
*A Lovely Blue And !* by Sam Gilliam on display at Hopkins Bloomberg Center
Arts+culture
Sam Gilliam Lecture series inaugural speakers announced
Published March 4, 2025
Launching April 9 in partnership with the Sam Gilliam Foundation, the series invites speakers to reflect on the intersection of art, academia, and public policy
photo from Porcelain War
Film
Oscar-nominated 'Porcelain War' to screen at Hopkins Bloomberg Center
Published Feb 25, 2025
Portrait of everyday Ukrainian artists and citizens fighting to save their country and culture will screen March 31 as part of new film series
A painter in a yellow safety vest smiles for the camera while standing in a warehouse. In front of them is a canvas and easel, as well as a sea of boxes.
Visual arts
The art of a second chance
Published Jan 28, 2025
A new exhibition of oil paintings and photographs made by JHU students highlights the objects and associates of a second-hand furniture warehouse
Christopher Cannon
Literature
Classical giant
Published Jan 23, 2025
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new scholarly-yet-accessible set
Four young girls
Film
Film series launches at Hopkins Bloomberg Center
Published Jan 21, 2025
Stories That Matter series opens with Oscar shortlisted documentary film 'Daughters' on Feb. 21
Rachel Williams, a Stern Center Curatorial Fellow, works with a 17th-century “paper supercomputer” created by Italian friar Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. By twisting its wheels, users can perform complex astrological and astronomical calculations, determine Catholic feast days, and more.
Arts+Culture
Browsing through history
Published Jan 17, 2025
The Johns Hopkins Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance provides many opportunities for students and researchers to gain archival experience
Photo of Lupe Fiasco
Q+A
Acclaimed rapper Lupe Fiasco joins Peabody faculty
Published Jan 7, 2025
The Grammy Award-winning artist will teach students in the Conservatory's new Hip Hop program beginning this fall
Painting of Mary Jo Salter, a woman with short hair and glasses
Q+A
What makes a poem good
Published Winter 2024
Chatting with Mary Jo Salter, the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024 / Johns Hopkins Magazine