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The title page of 'What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking' by Abby Fisher

A legacy of Southern delicacies

Published Spring 2023

Johns Hopkins' Special Collections acquires first-edition copy of What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, a cookbook believed to be only the second one authored by a Black woman in the United States / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Crazy Legs Conti sits in his apartment and leans toward the camera

Crazy Legs is still hungry

Published Spring 2023

Competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti has yet to max out on gross out / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen pictured here

Neuroaestheics

The healing powers of a brain on art

Published March 27, 2023

In new book, authors Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross contend that making and experiencing art can help us flourish

A rock band plays in the Peabody cafeteria March 10, 2023

Arts+Culture

From pandemic pivot improvisation to Peabody tradition

Published March 22, 2023

Conservatory students return to the cafeteria to commemorate the third anniversary of a spontaneous final performance before the COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020

Students play with Persephone, a light and sound organ, at the ice rink in February 2023

Arts+Culture

Interactive light organ brightens Homewood

Published March 14, 2023

Persephone, which debuted at the Lighting of the Quads in December, is the product of first-ever collaboration between the Digital Media Center and Makerspace

Innovative academics

Center for Digital Humanities connects human thought and computation

Published March 7, 2023

The Center for Digital Humanities helps advance research by exploring what humans do that computers can't, and vice versa, and discovering connection points between the two

Theater

Dunbar Baldwin Hughes Theater Co. celebrates 30 years

Published March 3, 2023

The group, which for three decades has brought expressions of Black culture and experience to the stage at Johns Hopkins, opens a three-show run of the critically acclaimed 'Is God Is' by playwright Aleshea Harris

Jed Gaylin rehearses with the HSO while sitting at a grand piano

Arts+Culture

Jed Gaylin finds his musical home

Published March 2, 2023

A concert on March 4 features the longtime music director, who will serve as both conductor and pianist for the spirited program performed in his honor