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A gallery of the 2023-24 SNF Agora visiting fellows
SNF Agora names new visiting fellows
Published May 16, 2023
The incoming cohort of journalists, artists, scholars, a poet, policy consultants, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit leaders will engage with issues around democracy through a variety of lenses
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Education
U.S. textbooks miss opportunities to teach Latino history
Published May 16, 2023
Analysis of how Latinos are portrayed in U.S. history textbooks reveals lack of authenticity, failure to cover seminal events in the Latino experience
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Education
Hopkins joins national effort to address K-12 learning loss
Published May 10, 2023
JHU among a group of 26 universities answering a call from the Biden administration to help close achievement gaps heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic
Anand Parekh
Changemakers
Public health policy insights help bridge bipartisan divide
Published May 9, 2023
Former Johns Hopkins Hospital resident Anand Parekh has carved out a successful career in public service and currently serves as chief medical advisor at the Bipartisan Policy Center
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K-12 Education
A RESET for school counselors
Published April 26, 2023
The School of Education was awarded a $4.7 million grant to build a strong pipeline to recruit, educate, and hire culturally responsive school counselors
Laura Friedel
Changemakers
Pivoting after 22 years on The Hill 
Published April 7, 2023
Laura Friedel, who earned a master's degree in international relations and government affairs from JHU, spent more than two decades in key congressional staff roles
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Hard histories
Students discover stories of girls who lived at former Hopkins orphanage
Published April 5, 2023
The course is part of the ongoing Hard Histories at Hopkins project, which examines the role that racism and discrimination have played at the institution
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How will we feed the future and save the planet?
Published Spring 2023
The world's food systems are in peril—but there's still time to act / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Humanities research
Overlooked history in sacred places
Published March 30, 2023
The course Researching the Africana Archive: Black Cemetery Stories brings together a community of scholars to discover, recover, and maintain Baltimore's Black cemeteries
Martha S. Jones
History
Martha Jones appointed to U.S. historical committee
Published March 13, 2023
As a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise, Jones will oversee ongoing efforts to document the history of the U.S. Supreme Court