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News
New Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Jeff Coller, a groundbreaking genetics researcher, has joined Johns Hopkins University as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of RNA Biology and Therapeutics.
New Dean in Pursuit of Truth
How Christopher S. Celenza, James N. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School, is beginning to shape the future of the School in his first year.
In Memoriam
Faculty and emeritus faculty we lost in spring 2021.
Faculty Awards
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences faculty won more than 30 awards over the last semester.
Snapshot: From the studio of Sasha Baskin
Peek into fiber artist (and Center for Visual Arts instructor) Sasha Baskin’s home studio.
Mellon Foundation Supports Inheritance Baltimore Project
A team of Krieger School professors was awarded a $4.4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a humanities-based project focused on the history of racism in higher education and preserving Black history.
From the Dean’s Desk
Spring 2021 welcome from Christopher S. Celenza, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
The discovery of this lost city is the second most important archaeological discovery since the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Betsy M. Bryan, Alexander Badawy Chair in Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, on her team’s discovery of the 3,000-year-old “lost golden city” of Aten, founded during ancient Egypt’s 18th dynasty.
The Washington Post, April 8, 2021
Social
See you in a cupola months 👀 We can’t wait!
#jhu #JohnsHopkins
How willing are people to engage in phone-based “digital contact tracing” to curb the pandemic? ...
How willing are people to engage in phone-based “digital contact tracing” to curb the pandemic? To find out, behavioral biology major Lauren Maytin spent last summer developing and analyzing a survey on digital contract tracing for people ages 18 to 24. And the results surprised her.
“If you can track your friends in a social setting, that’s fine. But if someone’s asking you to be tracked for public health purposes, suddenly it’s an invasion of privacy?”
#jhu #JohnsHopkins #StudentResearch #ContactTracing
Aren’t these botanical paintings inspiring? 🪴
course: “Botanical Painting in Watercolor and Gouache”
#JHUVisualArts #jhu #JohnsHopkins #painting
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