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Julia Verónica Matus Madrid, David Hogg, and Consuelo Amat at Power and Purpose: A Symposium on Mental Health and Democratic Agency
Mental health and democratic agency
Published June 22, 2023
Experts from Johns Hopkins led explorations of the relationship between mental well-being and democracy at a symposium in Athens
Book cover of 'Who Speaks for You?'
Law and disorder
Published Summer 2023
A new book about the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force comes from a unique perspective: Its author, Leo Wise, A&S '99, SAIS '00 (MA), was a federal prosecutor who helped take them down / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Voices
A year without Roe
Published June 21, 2023
Hopkins experts examine the abortion rights landscape a year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade
The 2023 Indispensable Role of Blacks at JHU inductees
Juneteenth festivities planned at Johns Hopkins
Published June 15, 2023
Black Faculty and Staff Association honors new inductees into the Indispensable Role of Blacks at Johns Hopkins; Juneteenth officially observed with the university's closing on Monday, June 19
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Voices
Justice for all?
Published June 7, 2023
Political scientist and sociologist Vesla Weaver listens to the voices of people whose experience of democracy, citizenship, and government is completely different from that of those not living under police surveillance
CTY Baltimore Emerging Scholar Bixby Coleman, a third grader at Patterson Park Elementary School, wore a Pi-themed dress to the program’s year-end celebration
K-12 Education
Baltimore students celebrate the end of the year with CTY
Published June 6, 2023
Students and their families attended a celebration on the Homewood campus marking the end of a fruitful year of academic exploration through the Baltimore Emerging Scholars Program
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Gun violence
Gun-related deaths reach record high in U.S.
Published June 6, 2023
2021 CDC data shows nearly 49,000 firearm fatalities, more than half as a result of suicide
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Policy briefing
Prescription drug shortages force tough treatment decisions
Published June 5, 2023
Hopkins experts discuss current shortages in chemotherapy drugs, antibiotics, and other critical medicines—and how to overcome them
Women in Africa
Bolstering economic independence for African women
Published May 31, 2023
Independent SAIS report shows women in three African countries earned and saved significantly more money through participation in an initiative led by Bloomberg Philanthropies
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Education
Novelty is essential to keeping bright learners engaged this summer
Published May 23, 2023
Recent research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth finds that advanced learners are engaged by new academic content and novel learning approaches