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Students file into school on the first day
Education
Center will help schools address health, safety challenges
Published May 6, 2019
Center for Safe and Healthy Schools, led by the School of Education, brings together experts from across the university to develop holistic approaches to school health and safety
Nneka N'namdi, Alex Riehm, and Danna Thomas
Tech Ventures
Former city schoolteacher wins $15K for her 'happiness revolution'
Published May 1, 2019
Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab also awards $10K to Fight Blight Bmore at its year-end celebration
City skyline and data
Hopkins expands efforts to help governments, nonprofits find data-driven solutions
Published April 29, 2019
Centers for Civic Impact will be part of university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
Handcuffs
Political science
Generational divides in crime and punishment
Published April 29, 2019
Study finds that millennials are arrested more often than previous generations, even when they report committing fewer crimes
Anne Applebaum
Journalist Anne Applebaum joins SNF Agora Institute
Published April 25, 2019
Applebaum, a 'Washington Post' columnist and an expert on the history of communism and post-communist Europe, will also join JHU's School of Advanced International Studies as a senior fellow
Zeynep Tufekci and Alec Ross
Democracy Dialogues
Big tech, China, and the new age of activism
Published April 19, 2019
Zeynep Tufekci and Alec Ross discuss the complex intersection of technology and democracy at event hosted by SNF Agora Institute
Social media influencer recording a post
Social media
Regulations harm influencers, marketers, followers
Published April 15, 2019
Carey Business School study shows how regulations meant to protect consumers may actually cause feeds to be flooded with ads
Prison cell
Incarcerated Women
Landmark study compiles data on pregnant women in prisons
Published April 11, 2019
Groundbreaking study calculates prevalence of pregnancy in prisons and tracks health outcomes of incarcerated mothers and their babies
Line chart art
'Gold standard' survey tracks decades of public opinion
Published April 10, 2019
Hopkins sociologist Stephen Morgan discusses the biennial General Social Survey, a key source of social science research since 1972
Laura Moro, Ashley Fadiora, and Jodie Pelusi with baby Nova
Nursing
The difference a doula makes
Published April 9, 2019 Video
Nursing students in Birth Companions program support pregnant mothers and help deliver safer, healthier babies