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News
Stars Align for Hubble Space Telescope Discovery
PhD candidate Brian Welch discovered a new (and thus far, furthest ever observed) star with data from the Hubble Telescope.
Investor Bill Miller Gives $50 Million to Department of Physics and Astronomy
The department is now the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy in honor of the investor and philanthropist’s gift.
Johns Hopkins Scientists Contribute to First Sequence of Human Genome
Johns Hopkins University scientists collaborated with more than 100 researchers around the world to assemble and analyze the first complete sequence of a human genome.
Building the SNF Agora Institute
The SNF Agora Institute broke ground in late fall 2021, with a community celebration, and the naming of eight endowed SNF Agora Institute Professors.
Spring 2022 Faculty Awards
Krieger School faculty garnered more than 20 notable awards and honors this spring, including the Rumford Prize, an NSF Career Award, and election to the National Academy of Medicine.
Musical Artifacts Inside Modern Languages Professor’s Office
See inside Professor Derek Schilling’s office, which features a 1940s Philco radio console.
Faculty We Lost, Spring 2022
In memoriam of Maurice Bessman, Ludwig Brand, Charles Dempsey, and Paul Feldman.
From the Dean’s Desk
Dean Christopher S. Celenza weighs in on the Krieger School's new ways to focus on the undergraduate and first-year experience.
We’ve discovered millions of genetic variants that were previously not known across samples of thousands of individuals whose genomes have already been sequenced. We will have to wait until future work to learn more about their associations with disease, but a big focus of work now will be on trying to discover new genetic variations that were previously uncharacterized.”
Rajiv McCoy, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, on the potential impact of fully sequencing the human genome.
TIME, March 31, 2022
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Peep Gilman Hall on this quick campus tour 👀
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Samanda Robinson, a PhD student in the Department of English, has a busy schedule this summer ...
Samanda Robinson, a PhD student in the Department of English, has a busy schedule this summer teaching a @jhuhopin course for incoming @johnshopkinsfli students and working on her dissertation about the connection between Black speculative fiction and social justice. Check out our story for a link to her vlog.
Photo: Will Kirk, Johns Hopkins University
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Less than two weeks until the JHU Class of 2026 gathers on Keyser Quad for their group photo. How ...
Less than two weeks until the JHU Class of 2026 gathers on Keyser Quad for their group photo. How "warm" was your class photo day? 🔥 ☀️🌡️
Photo: Will Kirk, Johns Hopkins University
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