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Issue: Fall 2020, Volume 18, Number 1
Features
Giving Back Makes a Comeback
Students find innovative ways to volunteer in the community in the face of a global pandemic. 'We can still make a difference—even through a screen.'
Research in the Time of COVID-19
When COVID-19 began its assault earlier this year, many Krieger School faculty members quickly noticed ways the virus—or its impact—intersected with their own research interests. Here are some of their stories.
COVID-19-related Research
A sampling of additional COVID-19-related work underway by faculty members and researchers across the Krieger School.
It’s Time for Some Truth Telling
Professor Martha S. Jones explores fact and fiction in women’s right to vote.
Centerpiece
Even COVID-19 can’t stop fall from arriving on Keyser Quad.
From the Dean
From the Dean’s Desk
Since the coronavirus arrived in the United States, various words and phrases have become a regular part of our lexicon … One word that I have not heard quite as much, but that I have witnessed a great deal of at Johns Hopkins, is resilience.
News
Sports Bits
JHU sports news from Summer and Fall 2020.
Snapshot: From the Office of Chaz Firestone
See what Professor Chaz Firestone's office looks like. He surrounds himself with objects that give...
What are you reading?
Kali-Ahset Amen, Assistant Research Professor, Sociology, Associate Director, Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts I just...
First-Year Students Ask Deep Questions
The first-year Common Question sparks intellectual discussions and builds stronger ties between students and faculty....
New Dean Named for School
Christopher S. Celenza, dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University and professor of history and...
A Fall Semester Like No Other
Citing concerns about a resurgence in COVID-19, President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Sunil Kumar...
Seen & Heard: Jessica Marie Johnson
Look who’s talking: Jessica Marie Johnson on magazine covers featuring Viola Davis and Simone Biles
Seen & Heard: Ho-Fung Hung
“The choice is between dying quietly without the world noticing, or dying with dignity with...
Seen & Heard: Meredith Greif
“If we don’t take drastic measures soon, many, many more millions of people are going to be...
Seen & Heard: N. D. B. Connolly
“We have long felt that it was important for young people, really across the board,...
In Memoriam
We remember Robert Forster, Pier Larson, Sakiko Olsen, Douglas Poland, Mark O. Robbins, and S....
Research
Nothing to Fear but Fearmongering Itself
Professor Filipe Campante's research and recent working paper investigate the impact of 2014 media coverage...
Developing a Digital Picture of Race
Assistant Professor Jessica Marie Johnson’s research stretches across the Atlantic, travels back and forth in...
Faculty
More Faculty Books
Faculty books published in 2020 that focus on democracy, divinity, the business of science and...
The Push and Pull of American Democracy
Robert Lieberman's new book, Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy, discusses the pillars...
Student Research
Field Notes: Lucie in the Sky with Software
Sophomore Lucie Afko is working to improve detectors on the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Survey...
Field Notes: Conquer the Divide
Senior Niat Habtemariam is working to find the cause of holoprosencephaly, or when an embryo's...
Field Notes: Cell Knowledge
Taharat Sheikh is working on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, focused on the role of the...
Field Notes: Double Feature
Brothers Curtis and Thomas Nishimoto recently collaborated on screenwriting and production on the fantasy film...
Classroom
Syllabus: Past Meets Present Among the Tiles
The Antioch Recovery Project course, part of the Krieger School’s Classics Research Lab, is an...
Major Infatuation: Public Health
Hear from students what they love about majoring in Public Health.
Alumni
Reducing Military Suicides
Alums Brian Kinsella, Craig Gridelli, and Nick Black returned from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Louise Erdrich: CV
Catch up with alumnus Louise Erdrich, award-winning novelist and short story author.
The Eyes Have It
Ethnie Jones, BA '83, MD '87, is a comprehensive ophthalmologist who specializes in cataract surgery...
A Path to Public Service
Molly Dillon ’11, wrote the New York Times best seller Yes She Can, and spent...
Alumni Kudos: Fall 2020
Krieger school alumni to watch.
Alumni to Watch
Alumni to watch includes Samuel Cheney, Kiara Eldred, Nicole Gaudelli, and David Jones.
On Campus
Five Questions: Renee Eastwood
Renee Eastwood is the Krieger School’s Director of Academic and Student Affairs for Graduate Students...
Class of 2024
Get a closer look at the Class of 2024.
Growth Mindset
Get the breakdown of what it's like to work in the JHU Greenhouse, wit the...
Then and Now: The Greenhouse
Then and Now comparing JHU's Greenhouse when it was built in 1908, and now.