Skip to main content

Johns Hopkins UniversityEst. 1876

America’s First Research University
Archived articles

Arts+Culture

Julie Rose in the Homewood dining room
History
Homewood Museum embraces a more inclusive history
Published Feb 1, 2019
New guided tour includes a focus on the lives of two enslaved families who lived and worked there: the Connors and the Rosses
Students paint with found objects
Intersession
Creating art from scratch
Published Jan 30, 2019 Photos
Color Theory class teaches students the principles of design and color
Skyline of futuristic city
Intersession
A counter-narrative for the future
Published Jan 24, 2019
Course examines how African-American science fiction authors and activists alike grapple with the past and create alternative paths for the future
Russell Baker
In Memoriam
Journalist, alum Russell Baker dies at 93
Published Jan 23, 2019
A 1947 Hopkins graduate, his nationally syndicated column for The New York Times appeared nearly 5,000 times from 1962 to 1998
The Beatles
Intersession
The times were a-changin'
Published Jan 10, 2019
In Dylan, Motown, and the Beatles, students examine the dynamic and tumultuous period of the 1960s through lens of popular music
The inaugural class of medical students
Hopkins History
Exhibition traces 125 years of medical milestones
Published Dec 17, 2018
Exhibition created to highlight the celebrated history of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is on display in MSE Library through March 18
Page from Erasmus book
Manuscripts
Erasmus unredacted
Published Winter 2018
It will take a team of conservators, data scientists, and even an astrophysicist to find out what's written on the Red Cyprian's paint-slathered pages / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Excerpt from Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes
Publishing
Well-shod kid lit
Published Winter 2018
With her new children's book, alum Eva Chen celebrates female empowerment through fashionable footwear / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Composite image of Frances Pollock and Tia Price
Peabody
Reality opera
Published Winter 2018 Video
Composer Frances Pollock insists that opera needs to tell new stories, with new collaborators, for new audiences / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Collage of photos of Gertrude Stein, Robert Wilson, and others
Seeing Robert Wilson plain
Published Winter 2018
Hopkins is home to the bookseller's obsessively collected cache of Gertrude Stein books and ephemera / Johns Hopkins Magazine