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Two Amazon packages
VOICES
Prime produce, delivered?
Published June 30, 2017
With Whole Foods acquisition, Amazon could 'change the grocery shopping experience forever'
Baltimore Pride
Blue Jays let their colors fly
Published June 19, 2017 Photos
About 200 members of the Johns Hopkins community march in parade at annual city festival
Hopkins on the Hill
The importance of federal research funding
Published June 12, 2017
At Washington D.C. event, researchers from across JHU showcase their work made possible by grants from federal agencies
Illustration depicts Baltimore rowhomes overlaid with circles and connecting lines suggesting treemaps
Stable homes
Published Summer 2017
To locate vacant Baltimore homes that could be saved from deterioration, acting housing commissioner turned to two JHU applied mathematicians for help / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration depicts a house with a faux-Roman colonnade, a crooked window, and various other garish add-ons like astroturf, a red convertible, and a turret
Architectural bazooka
Published Summer 2017
Blogger behind 'McMansion Hell' takes aim at American consumerism, one oversized foyer at a time / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Empty movie theater with blank screen
Economics
Screen test
Published Summer 2017
Policymakers can have disruptive effects on industries even if they have good intentions, Hopkins economist finds / Johns Hopkins Magazine
black and white photo of rhinoceros
Life lessons from rhinos
Published Summer 2017
A museum program pairs up with the Maryland Zoo, challenging students to create promo materials that educate and fascinate local school kids / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration shows melting ice blocks with sinister hands in the negative space
Arctic policy
As the ice breaks
Published Summer 2017
A massive territory-grab of underwater resources is taking place in the Arctic—but when it comes to staking its claim, America lags behind / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration depicts a political map of Europe with the coastline disintegrating to become birds in flight across the Atlantic
Global disorder
Coping with the displaced millions
Published Summer 2017 Video
Bloomberg School researchers Paul Spiegel, Len Rubenstein, and Courtland Robinson bring facts and data to the discussion of mass human migration / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration depicts a tank draped in the American flag in front of a red and white striped background
Sit rep
Published Summer 2017
A deep-dive into Eliot Cohen's 'thoughtful, carefully reasoned' book, 'The Big Stick' / Johns Hopkins Magazine