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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 Video
The world's food systems are in peril—but there's still time to act / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A student kneels down next to a grave stone at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Baltimore
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
Lou Burns
Changemakers
Lou Burns works to connect congressman with constituents
Published March 7, 2023
Burns, a 2021 Hopkins graduate, joined the congressional staff of U.S. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger one month after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol
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Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT's implications for higher ed
Published Feb 20, 2023 Video
As the new tech makes waves in education, scholars from Hopkins and UPenn discuss promising applications—and potential pitfalls
Johns Hopkins School of Education alumna Berol Dewdney with her pre-K students
K-12 education
Alumna Berol Dewdney is Maryland's teacher of the year
Published Feb 16, 2023
'Neuroscience totally transformed my teaching practice,' says Dewdney, an alum of the Johns Hopkins School of Education