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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
Sue Porterfield
University news
Sue Porterfield named senior associate vice provost for research operations
Published May 15, 2025
Porterfield returns to Johns Hopkins in a new role designed to harmonize operations and enhance services across the institution's entire research enterprise
Myrna Blyth
Commencement 2025
Embracing the joys of lifelong learning
Published May 15, 2025
More than 60 years after earning her bachelor's degree, Myrna Blyth enrolled in the master of liberal arts program at Hopkins. Blyth, who will graduate Monday at age 86, said this degree pursuit was 'less purposeful but more meaningful.'