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Politics+Society

A classroom desk with school supplies and a mask

Education

COVID-19 and the new school year

Published Aug 9, 2021

As a new school year begins, Johns Hopkins education experts stress the high value of in-person learning balanced by mitigating community spread of the virus

Nathan D. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, teaches about the history and impact of racist practices in the U.S. housing arena.

A world more complete

Published Aug 3, 2021

Historian Nathan D. Connolly investigates the brick wall of race, class, and real estate

Environment

An expert look at natural resource management

Published July 23, 2021

In special feature published in 'PNAS,' Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Paul Ferraro demonstrates how sound science can help communities better manage finite resources

Pain management

Cannabis and athletes

Published July 20, 2021

Epidemiologist and former Olympic triathlete Joanna Zeiger is breaking barriers in cannabis research for pain and recovery treatment.

illustration of a microchip with binary 1s and 0s

Digital humanities

New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation

Published July 15, 2021

Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities

Recipe for independence

Published July 6, 2021

PhD candidate Anna Moyer's site Accessible Chef has become a go-to cooking resource for people with intellectual disabilities

A kid gets vaccinated in a drive-through clinic

Symposium

COVID-19 vaccines and kids

Published July 2, 2021

Public health and medical leaders explore the complexities of vaccinating kids during Johns Hopkins/UW symposium

Food systems

The tumultuous year of the fish

Published Summer 2021

New research examines the jolt to the seafood supply chain caused by COVID-19—and how we might build resilience in the future / Johns Hopkins Magazine