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Adam Sheingate hands out food as part of the Baltimore County Student Support Network
Pandemic
Lending a helping hand
Published Feb 8, 2021
Professor Adam Sheingate takes a front-line role in helping distribute COVID-relief packages to Baltimore families
Protesters hold signs calling for release of Aung San Suu Kyi
International politics
A week after Myanmar coup, tensions still rising
Published Feb 8, 2021
SAIS Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence Vikram Nehru discusses what brought the country to this point and where it goes from here
High Speed Train
Transportation
Study details how faster train service would boost Baltimore economy
Published Feb 4, 2021
Johns Hopkins' 21st Century Cities initiative report suggests investments in MARC train service would provide benefits for both residents of Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
Empty vaccine vials are discarded in a cardboard box
Commentary
Government leaders should not skip to the front of the COVID-19 vaccine line
Published Jan 25, 2021
Prioritizing officials without clear, public criteria will undermine public health response, claims new paper by Johns Hopkins faculty
A city skyline is overlaid with intersecting lines representing digital connection
Urban policy
New Johns Hopkins report details plan for digital equity in Baltimore
Published Jan 25, 2021
A new 21st Century Cities Initiative report outlines steps to increase access to reliable high speed internet in cities with pronounced digital divides
SNF Agora Institute
SNF Agora Institute invites applicants for Visiting Fellows Program
Published Jan 19, 2021 Video
Diverse cohort sought to collaborate with the institute's permanent faculty on research, teaching, organizing conferences, and more
A student hugs his sister
Student life
About 1,300 undergraduate students return to Homewood
Published Jan 19, 2021 Photos
Students who choose to return to campus for in-person instruction must adhere to new safety precautions and testing requirements
Discarded medical mask
Economics
High income associated with masking, social distancing compliance
Published Jan 15, 2021
Survey suggests common public health measures such as masking, social distancing, and telework may be inaccessible or impractical for those with lower incomes
Composite image of two women
COVID-19
Bloomberg alums share strategy from Biden's COVID-19 task force
Published Jan 15, 2021 Video
Two Bloomberg School alums—now members of President-elect Biden's coronavirus task force—share the incoming administration's strategies for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic
Tear gas engulfs rioters outside the U.S. Capitol building
Q+A
The Capitol insurrectionists and the lingering threat of extremist violence
Published Jan 14, 2021
Eugene Finkel, an expert in violence, state collapse, and social change, discusses what we know about the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol one week ago and how the nation can confront the emerging threat of domestic terrorism