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Four students working on their prototype device for Design Day. The device sits on top of a table; it is metal and has many wires attached to it..
Design Day
Crushing it in space
Published April 15, 2025
Engineering students are building a compact, energy-efficient device that can pulverize asteroid rocks for Design Day
Sal Khan
Commencement 2025
Khan Academy founder Sal Khan to give Commencement address
Published March 31, 2025 Video
Educator and entrepreneur launched an eponymous online education resource in 2008 that has grown to reach more than 180 million registered users in 190 countries
A large group of people look at a laptop screen.
Undergraduate research
Students play key role in bridge safety assessment
Published March 24, 2025
One year after the Key Bridge collision, a team of Johns Hopkins students has helped identify which major bridges might be next
Pink springtime blossoms on the Homewood campus
Undergrad admissions
Hopkins adds to Class of 2029
Published March 21, 2025 Video
They will have the opportunity to join 793 students previously admitted to the class in the Early Decision cohorts
A collage of photos of Fulbright Student grantees in Taiwan, Guinea, Spain, Germany, and Greece.
Awards+Honors
Hopkins among top Fulbright producers
Published March 4, 2025
Six Hopkins Fulbright grantees discuss how they're making a difference around the world, from Guinea and Germany to Taiwan and Japan
Students walk to class on a snowy day
Undergraduate admissions
Hopkins welcomes additional students to the Class of 2029
Published Feb 14, 2025
242 students in the Early Decision II cohort join 551 students admitted during the first Early Decision period in December
Rendering of a tree-lined campus quad with brick academic buildings
Campus life
Plans shared for new Homewood residence hall, dining facility
Published Feb 10, 2025
New building, expected to be completed by the end of 2028, will replace Alumni Memorial Residence I and Hopkins Café
Student volunteer with SOOTHE hold up canvas tote bags in a group photo
Grad student experience
Comfort through company
Published Feb 4, 2025
Students Offering Optimism to Help, or SOOTHE, gives companionship to patients while teaching future doctors about the human side of medicine
Two young adults stand in front of a rolling cart. Above it hangs a sign that reads "Free Harm Reduction Supplies."
Community
Students lead harm reduction efforts
Published Jan 30, 2025
HopOn Harm Reduction hands out free syringes, Narcan, and other supplies to decrease the dangers and stigmas surrounding drug use
A painter in a yellow safety vest smiles for the camera while standing in a warehouse. In front of them is a canvas and easel, as well as a sea of boxes.
Visual arts
The art of a second chance
Published Jan 28, 2025 Video
A new exhibition of oil paintings and photographs made by JHU students highlights the objects and associates of a second-hand furniture warehouse