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A daughter sits at a desk doing homework while her mom stands beside her helping
Q+A
Are K-12 teachers assigning too much homework?
Published Jan 17, 2024
After decades of research, School of Education Professor Joyce L. Epstein remains certain that homework is essential—but the quality of homework matters
Closeup of a record player
Music
Faculty, staff pick their favorite albums of 2023
Published Dec 21, 2023
We asked music-minded members of the Hopkins community for their favorite listens of 2023
An array of books
Books
Book recommendations from Hopkins scholars
Published Dec 18, 2023
We asked faculty members, library staff, and many others about the best books they read in 2023. This is what they told us.
Letters to the editor
Published Winter 2023
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Editor's note
Published Winter 2023
In memory of Catherine Pierre, former editor of Johns Hopkins Magazine / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Book cover of The Cycle by Shalene Gupta
A story of stigmas
Published Winter 2023
Part memoir, part journalism, Cycle seeks to raise awareness about a medical condition suffered by millions worldwide: PMDD / Johns Hopkins Magazine
The cover of the book
Hard choices at midlife
Published Winter 2023
The novel Hedge starts with the makings of a riveting romance—but not all is as it appears / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Book cover of
Reality Writes
Published Winter 2023
A writer, a physicist, and a philosopher walk into a bar ... replace "bar" with "book" and you have the gist of The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Panelists on a stage during a recent about whether the United States still needs race-based affirmative action.
Politics+Society
Does the U.S. still need affirmative action?
Published Nov 22, 2023
Experts deliberated the pros and cons of race-based affirmative action in a debate open to the public hosted by Johns Hopkins University's SNF Agora Institute
screen shot of a Johns Hopkins Congressional Briefing Series video
Congressional briefing
Studying the healing power of psychedelics
Published Nov 21, 2023
JHU Congressional Briefing panelists explain how the controlled substances could transform mental health treatment