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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 Video
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 Video
Recent research from the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth finds that advanced learners are engaged by new academic content and novel learning approaches
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