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Hopkins volunteers pose by the turkey drive banner
Community
'Truly something special'
Published Nov 25, 2025 Video
Hopkins employees donated nearly $12,000 to the 49th-annual Vernon Rice Memorial Turkey Drive, which provided Thanksgiving dinner boxes through local partners
A group photo at the expungement clinic
Community
Legal aid and other services offered at fall expungement clinic
Published Oct 28, 2025
Local partner organizations joined Johns Hopkins and Maryland Legal Aid to provide career resources, vaccinations, and housing assistance
Beer labels for Blind Spot
Mechanical engineering
A touching beer story
Published Fall 2025
Students at Johns Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering design a printer capable of punching braille text into beer labels and more / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Sun rises over a campus and city skyline
Economic impact
Analysis: Hopkins delivers $40B impact for Maryland
Published Oct 14, 2025
Collectively, the impact of Johns Hopkins University and Health System in Baltimore was estimated to be $19.4 billion last year, including one out of every five jobs in the city
A group of people gather in a circle to pray with their hands on one person's shoulders.
Film
Documentary explores how dialogue can bridge divides
Published Oct 10, 2025
SNF Agora Institute will host director Nicholas Ma on Oct. 14 for a free screening of his film 'Leap of Faith,' which follows 12 Christian leaders
Aerial view of the Homewood campus and Baltimore
Economic impact
Hopkins, other city nonprofits to double contribution to Baltimore
Published Oct 1, 2025
'Eds and meds' institutions to voluntarily provide $48M over five years on top of the billions of dollars in economic impact their operations generate for the city
Khari and Shawn Parker smile for a photo in the Bloomberg Student Center's food hall.
Q+A
Connie's brings comfort food to student center location
Published Sept 29, 2025
Baltimore-born co-owners Shawn and Khari Parker will serve their signature chicken, waffles, and a variety of other culinary offerings at JHU's new Bloomberg Student Center
Chef Jasmine Norton smiles for the camera while standing in her restaurant, the Urban Oyster.
Q+A
Local flavor comes to Bloomberg Student Center
Published Sept 22, 2025
Chef Jasmine Norton, a James Beard Award semifinalist and Baltimore native, will open a new food stall this fall on Homewood campus
A child's hand fills up a cup of water in the sink.
Community
Community outreach pushes Baltimore toward safer drinking water
Published Aug 8, 2025 Video
As Baltimore faces a federal deadline to identify and replace lead service lines, local researchers and community groups are stepping in to reach residents the city has struggled to engage
An aerial view of a coal terminal at left, including large piles of coal and rail cars, and a nearby neighborhood at right
Environmental health
Curtis Bay air pollution linked to coal terminal activity, wind
Published July 21, 2025
Findings suggest that existing coal dust mitigation measures are insufficient