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Bees from Julia Burdick-Will's hives
Buzzworthy
Beekeeping with Julia Burdick-Will
Published June 21, 2024
An associate professor in the Department of Sociology shares her apian affinity
Synchronized swimmers in water
Swimming in synch
Published Summer 2024
A new book by Vicki Valosik, 'Swimming Pretty,' probes the push and pull between art and athletics as it chronicles the untold story of women in water. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Leslie King Hammond
Alumni profile
The way maker
Published Summer 2024
Art historian Leslie King Hammond, A&S '73 (MA), '75 (PhD), reflects on her life spent championing Black and women artists—and a 1988 exhibit that jolted the art world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of four sisters looking at the camera as they're being filmed by video cameras
The sisterhood
Published Summer 2024
With 'Tehrangeles,' writer Porochista Khakpour explores reality television, sisterhood, and sketchy ayahuasca shamans / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Poetry
Ode to the Mother's Hands
Published Summer 2024
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SHAN Wallace speaks at the installation of her photographs at the School of Nursing
Arts+culture
Art finds a new home at Nursing
Published June 17, 2024
Two black and white photographs by Baltimore artist SHAN Wallace are now on display at the School of Nursing—the debut location for the university's new public art initiative
Blue skies with bright white clouds, looking up toward the Gilman Hall clock tower
Art + Mind
Baltimore writers to help scientists learn how brain processes stories
Published June 12, 2024
Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories; deadline extended to July 31
Chris Childers
Arts+culture
Chris Childers' epic accomplishment
Published June 12, 2024
Ten years in the making, poet and Writing Seminars alum Chris Childers' 956-page translation of Greek and Latin lyric verse is a 'personal odyssey' gathering over 80 poets from across eight centuries
A collage of different sculptures, paintings, and printed photographs.
Arts
Hopkins launches major effort to elevate the arts
Published June 4, 2024
A new initiative led by Dan Weiss, former president of the Metropolitan Museum, aspires to boost the arts across the university
Dorothy Ross
In memoriam
Historian Dorothy Ross dies at 87
Published May 29, 2024
The first woman to be named chair of the History Department, Ross's research focused on historical writing in the social sciences, revealing insights that transformed scholars' understanding of the past