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Three people react with delight as a small copper still produces alcohol.
Intersession, distilled
Published Jan 13, 2026 Video
Biochemist Eric Johnson's one-week Intersession course introduces students to the complex processes used to make brandy and other liquors
A group of college students take a selfie together.
2025 in Review
The year in photos
Published Dec 22, 2025
A look back at some memorable Johns Hopkins University moments and images from 2025
Talia Hovsepian smiles for a photo at a Formula 1 race.
Applied Math
Student helps Formula One team shave off seconds
Published Dec 17, 2025
Undergraduate Talia Hovsepian is taking a gap year to work as a data scientist for Racing Bulls
Two adults ice skate hand in hand, looking down at the ice.
Campus life
Have an ice day!
Published Dec 17, 2025
Registration is now open for the rink's fifth season of skating, at the Hopkins Ice Rink which will run from Jan. 9 to Feb. 22
Students walk across the upper quad on the first snowy day of 2025
Undergraduate admissions
Hopkins welcomes first members of Class of 2030
Published Dec 12, 2025
553 of the most talented students from around the world have been admitted to Hopkins in the Early Decision I cohort
A lab researcher holds up a slide to look through it.
Undergraduate research
Could axolotls hold the key to restoring human vision?
Published Dec 11, 2025
Axolotls can regenerate optic nerves, retinas, and parts of their brain. Provost's Undergraduate Research Award-winner Ted Chor wants to understand how.
Amit Peled strokes his chin as a student plays the cello behind him. Behind the student, more classmates stand and listen.
Name that tune
Peabody professor goes viral in TikTok challenge video
Published Dec 10, 2025
With 2.1 million views on Instagram and 1.3 million views on TikTok, Amit Peled's ability to recognize his cello students by sound alone has impressed the Internet
Three college students smile for the camera while holding up a homemade mechanical toy vehicle shaped like a piece of pizza.
Mechanical Engineering
First-year engineers' minicars battle it out on racetrack
Published Dec 9, 2025
Mechanical Engineering's annual first-year design competition displayed a vast array of automobiles
Professor RT Ramesh teaches in front of a class. Behind him is a powerpoint titled "Predicted Impact Footprint in 2031" with an image of a simulated asteroid impact.
Undergraduate Studies
How to protect the planet from an asteroid threat
Published Dec 9, 2025
Professor K.T. Ramesh's How to Stop an Asteroid course introduces first-year Johns Hopkins undergrads to both the engineering and sociopolitical sides of planetary defense
Three Koshary Corner staff smile for a picture in front of their food stall in the Bloomberg Student Center.
Q+A
Koshary Corner brings a taste of Egypt to Homewood campus
Published Nov 18, 2025
Egypt's national dish finds a new home in JHU's student center thanks to local restaurant owner Iman Moussa