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Thomas Edling poses in a polo shirt that has the American Humane logo
Creature comfort
Published Winter 2021
Behind the scenes of Hollywood's biggest movies and TV shows, Johns Hopkins alum Thomas Edling helps ensure the safety and humane treatment of all on-set animals. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Handwritten list of names and relationships
University history
Honoring the humanity of enslaved people at Homewood
Published Jan 21, 2022
Today's Ritual of Remembrance honors the legacies of those who lived and labored on the land where the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University now sits
Students at Henderson-Hopkins attend a portraiture workshop after a new portrait of Elijah Cummings was unveiled January 20, 2022
Names+Narratives
Portrait honors Elijah Cummings' enduring legacy
Published Jan 20, 2022
Elijah Cummings, longtime congressman from Baltimore who received an honorary degree in 2015 and died in 2019, held the national stage while maintaining steadfast support for his city
Jacob Yoffee (left) and Roahn Hylton pose in front of sound mixing equipment
Music
Sounds of the '60s
Published Dec 10, 2021
Peabody alum Jacob Yoffee co-composes the score for the new Wonder Years reboot
A saxophone player plays while student record
Acoustics
The science of the sound of music
Published Dec 7, 2021
Engineering students teach acoustics course at Peabody, opening a new avenue for scientific and musical collaboration
Matthew Pavesich
CUE2
Under Matthew Pavesich, Krieger offers expanded writing instruction
Published Nov 19, 2021
The new Expository Writing Program director leads an effort to provide writing classes to each first-year student and to integrate writing into all Arts and Sciences majors
Mufasa Cruz Moreno writes out a toe tag
Lives lost to hostile terrain
Published Nov 15, 2021 Photos
The 3,200 toe tags of the Hostile Terrain 94 art instillation aim to "rehumanize" migrants who have died while crossing the Sonoran Desert
Leon Fleisher
Peabody to honor Leon Fleisher during memorial event on Nov. 7
Published Oct 22, 2021
Fleisher, who taught piano at Peabody for more than six decades, died in August 2020 at 92
Andrew Motion and Adam Riess
First-Year Seminar
Contemplating our place in the universe
Published Oct 13, 2021
Luminary faculty members Adam Riess, Andrew Motion engage in wide-ranging discussion ahead of upcoming launch of the James Webb Space Telescope
Edith Windsor portrait at Johns Hopkins
Names+Narratives
Portrait of LGBTQ rights trailblazer unveiled
Published Oct 12, 2021
Edith Windsor, who received a JHU honorary degree in 2014 and who died in 2017, played a pivotal role in the fight for marriage equality in the U.S.