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Arts+Culture

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Digital humanities

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation

Published July 15, 2021

Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities

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Archaeology

Dead letters

Published July 13, 2021

Alphabetic writing may have begun 500 years earlier than believed

Bringing sustainability to fashion

Published July 8, 2021

Recent graduates Mecca McDonald and Mia Dunn have launched Mo.Na. Gems, a jewelry store selling biodegradable earrings and necklaces of their own design

Essay

A tale of two islands

Published Summer 2021

Author Elin Hilderbrand reminisces on a childhood spent beachside / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Q+A

Writing along with the Tour de France

Published June 30, 2021

Peabody alum and budding cycling superfan Kate Wagner will chronicle the sport's three-week mega event in all its wheel-spinning, hill-climbing glory

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Arts+Culture

'A space for love'

Published June 28, 2021

Electric Marronage digital humanities project fosters Black exploration and expression free from the confines of traditional academia

Juneteenth

Baltimore artists, scholars, and educators will present dramatic performances based on writings by Black Baltimoreans at the forefront of the 19th-century abolitionist movement during a Juneteenth livestream Friday at noon

Nonfiction

The WWII-era scientist who revolutionized cancer research—despite the Nazis

Published June 4, 2021

In his new book, Ravenous, Johns Hopkins faculty member Sam Apple explains how Nobel laureate Otto Warburg's once disregarded cancer metabolism research has undergone a major resurgence