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Writing
Your story starts here
Published Winter 2023
With a simple prompt, author Jami Attenberg got thousands worldwide to start writing / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Johns Hopkins student and selection committee member Maya Kelsey Johnson, standing, and artist LaToya Hobbs look at a painting titled *How Johnetta Taught Us to Pray II*
Names+Narratives
Baltimore artists to inspire campus conversations
Published Nov 7, 2023
Initiative will bring contemporary works of art to JHU, with a goal of selecting artists and artwork representing a broad range of perspectives
David Leonhardt
Hopkins in D.C.
Hopkins Bloomberg Center launches Authors & Insights series
Published Oct 30, 2023
Series starts with book events featuring 'New York Times' author and columnist David Leonhardt, SAIS expert Eliot Cohen
Photo of an amp with a volume nob that goes to 11
Q+A
Cutting through the distortion on musician hearing health
Published Oct 30, 2023
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Kris Chesky talks about the musician-specific earplug industry, and what might be done to improve how musicians and their teachers prevent noise-induced hearing loss
Detail of blue tiles with white painted lines resembling clouds
Arts+Culture
A virtual guide to art at Hopkins
Published Oct 23, 2023
More than 200 works of public art at Hopkins locations in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., can now be viewed via the Bloomberg Connects app
Glass blower demonstrates how to form globes
Television
JHU group eyes science TV reboot
Published Oct 10, 2023
Inspired by a landmark Hopkins television show from the '40s and '50s, a small team wants to create a new type of science program for the streaming age
A man walks through a flooded field. Behind him is a white building.
Film
Climate change in black and white
Published Oct 9, 2023
Documentary co-produced by SNF Agora Institute visiting fellow Rona Kobell explores the nexus of climate change and historic racism
Sal Gentile
Television
Late night laughs
Published Fall 2023
Sal Gentile mines comedy gold for Late Night With Seth Meyers / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Kara Cooney
Near Eastern Studies
Disruptor of the pharaohs
Published Fall 2023
Egyptologist Kara Cooney wants us to stop romanticizing ancient Egypt / Johns Hopkins Magazine
An intern at the MCHC's Jim Henson exhibition puts eyebrows on a puppet.
Community Impact
Henson's world
Published Aug 15, 2023
Sharon Lee, one of 49 students involved in this summer's Community Impact Internships Program, spent the summer as an education intern for the Jim Henson exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture