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Lainie Rutkow and Cynthia Minkovitz
University news
Provost shares reimagined faculty affairs portfolio
Published May 28, 2025
Executive Vice Provost Lainie Rutkow will assume expanded responsibilities with universitywide shared governance bodies; pediatric health expert Cynthia Minkovitz will serve as vice provost for faculty development
Keshia Pollack Porter
University news
Keshia Pollack Porter named next Bloomberg School of Public Health dean
Published May 27, 2025
Pollack Porter, a health policy expert and a dynamic leader who has been a member of the Bloomberg School faculty since 2006, will assume her new role on Aug. 1
Johns Hopkins University President Ron Daniels
President's Remarks
'Begin again in whatever calling summons your greatest passion'
Published May 22, 2025 Video
In address to the Class of 2025, he urges students to find the fortitude and persistence to pursue those endeavors that mean the most to them
Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan
Featured speaker
'Invest in what gives you meaning'
Published May 22, 2025 Video
Khan Academy founder urges the Class of 2025 to chase meaning and contentment rather than material comfort and recognition
Four people receive honorary degrees
Honorary degrees
Four transformational leaders recognized
Published May 22, 2025 Video
University honors AFRO publisher Toni Draper, JHU board chair Lou Forster, Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan, and visionary astrophysicist Alex Szalay
Student speaker Dalhart Dobbs
Senior speaker
'We have become Hopkins'
Published May 22, 2025 Video
Senior Dalhart Dobbs encourages graduates to carry the spirit of Hopkins with them in whatever they do
Jiawei Ge and Run Peng, with family
Commencement 2025
He got a hood, she got a ring
Published May 22, 2025
Johns Hopkins engineering doctoral student makes day extra memorable by proposing to longtime girlfriend
Passenger plane flying in the blue sky
Sustainability
New dashboard tracks environmental impact of travel across the university
Published May 20, 2025
The Travel Emissions Dashboard will guide better decision-making to help consolidate trips, choose more efficient airlines, avoid stopovers, and opt for lower-emission modes of transit where possible
Clockwise from top left: Sal Khan, Lou Forster, Alex Szalay, and Toni Draper
Commencement 2025
JHU to recognize four honorary degree recipients
Published May 16, 2025
Degrees will be conferred during the universitywide Commencement on May 22 at Homewood Field
Two people sit on a stage and converse in front of a full auditorium audience
Hopkins in D.C.
38 proposals receive funding via Nexus Awards
Published May 16, 2025
Nexus Awards Program supports a diverse range of programming, research, and teaching at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center