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Students walk along a brick pathway with white brick columns on the Homewood campus on a late summer day with blue skies and green trees in the background
University rankings
Hopkins No. 7 in 'U.S. News' Best Colleges rankings
Published Sept 23, 2025
University recognized for academic excellence as well as for low student debt, value, innovation, undergraduate research, and disciplines including biomedical engineering and biotechnology
Chef Jasmine Norton smiles for the camera while standing in her restaurant, the Urban Oyster.
Q+A
Local flavor comes to Bloomberg Student Center
Published Sept 22, 2025
Chef Jasmine Norton, a James Beard Award semifinalist and Baltimore native, will open a new food stall this fall on Homewood campus
Richard Huganir looks into a microscope
Brain science
New cross-university neuroscience department
Published Sept 15, 2025
Shared by the schools of Medicine and Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience aims to unify neuroscience research and education across the university
Architectural columns seen against a blue, cloudy sky
Politics+Society
Program brings range of perspectives to contemporary topics
Published Sept 9, 2025
Projects co-led by scholars from JHU, the American Enterprise Institute earn support via program designed to enhance collaboration, deepen insights, promote intellectual pluralism
Last fall's Family Movie Night feature, "Monsters, Inc."
Family Fun
Family Movie Night returns with 'The Lego Movie'
Published Sept 4, 2025
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to bring their families and friends to a free movie screening on Sept. 26
Three students hold up cardboard props--two stars, and a pennant reading "Go Vote"--while smiling.
Democracy Day
'Guardians of fact and truth'
Published Aug 26, 2025 Video
In its fifth year, Johns Hopkins' Democracy Day introduces new students to foundational principles, models inclusion of diverse perspectives, and cultivates skills for democratic engagement
Students wearing bucket hats at convocation
Convocation 2025
Hats off to the Class of 2029
Published Aug 26, 2025
Johns Hopkins University officially welcomes its 150th undergraduate class at the annual Convocation ceremony
Students from the Class of 2029 are arrayed on a large green space to spell "JHU 29"
Class of 2029
All together: JHU's Class of 2029 makes it official
Published Aug 25, 2025 Video
Members of the new undergraduate class assembled and arranged themselves to spell out their class year, a Hopkins Orientation tradition
Raymond A. "Chip" Mason
In memoriam
Financier Chip Mason, founder of Baltimore's Legg Mason, dies at 88
Published Aug 25, 2025
Mason was a longtime member of the Johns Hopkins University and Medicine boards, made a major financial contribution for the construction of Mason Hall on JHU's Homewood campus
Arturo Casadevall, left, discussing his Wavelengths book, *What if Fungi Win?*, in March at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center
Books
Wavelengths program builds on success, expands eligibility
Published Aug 19, 2025
Program to support public outreach efforts has been expanded and extended through 2029; applications now open