Issue: Fall 2023, Volume 21, Number 1
Features
Building up Democracy at the SNF Agora Institute
Scholars and students at the SNF Agora Institute are leading efforts to advance civic engagement.
Centerpiece: art by Joyce J. Scott
On permanent display in Gilman Hall’s Hutzler Reading Room, “Ancestry Doll 1” by Baltimore-born artist Joyce J. Scott.
Trusting the Process at the Center for Visual Arts
Center for Visual Arts nears 50 years of evolution.
Footprints from the Past
With the help of their professors, undergraduates explore new ways of uncovering lost, and at times unsettling, history.
News
Johns Hopkins Opens a New Home in Washington, D.C.
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center, focused on policy and housing JHU’s new School of Government and Policy, opened this fall in Washington, D.C.
From the Krieger School Dean
Fall 2023 updates from Christopher S. Celenza, James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Environmental Justice in Curtis Bay
Students in the Environmental Justice Workshop went to class in South Baltimore’s Curtis Bay, to work with residents who are lobbying against transport company CSX.
Missing Piece in Human Genome Decoded
The chromosome associated with male development, which is the last mysterious piece of the human genome, has been fully sequenced by a team including Johns Hopkins University scientists.
Art Historian Daniel Weiss Returns
Art historian Daniel H. Weiss, A&S ’82 (MA), ’92 (PhD), has returned to Johns Hopkins as Homewood Professor of the Humanities.
Research
Digital Comedy Series Takes Dad Jokes Seriously
Adam Rodgers, Faxon Director of Film and Media Studies, on his online comedy series Turf Valley.
Do We Hear Silence?
Psychological and Brain Sciences faculty and students investigate whether silence affects our auditory systems the same way noise does.
The Political Dynamics of Disasters
Sarah Parkinson has dedicated her research to studying the behavior of organizations that are active in conflict and crisis zones.
Faculty
Yulia Frumer on edible landscaping
Yulia Frumer holds a professorship in East Asian science, but she also is an experienced gardener who uses fruits, herbs, and edible flowers in her landscaping.
Ask the professor: Danielle Evans
We ask Associate Professor Danielle Evans about her writing process and how she drafts her work.
Questioning Reality and Our Place in It
William Egginton discusses his new book “The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality.”
Student Research
Agricultural Development and Food Sovereignty
Iván Ruiz-Hernández speaks about his research into the food systems affecting small farms in southern Mexico.
Helping Avoid Opioid Relapse
Robbie Kuang discusses her research on whether cannabidiol might help people cope better with opioid withdrawal symptoms.
Pop Culture and Feminism
Arusa Malik discusses her First-Year Fellowship focused on using library artifacts to understand connections between feminism and pop culture over the last 100 years.
Ending Disparity in Birthing
Cleo Bluthenthal hopes her research on high maternal mortality, especially for Black women, may help develop policies to improve preterm birth and maternal deaths.
Classroom
Syllabus: Children’s Literature and the Self
All about the Comparative Thought and Literature class “Children’s Literature and the Self: From Fairy Tales to Science Fiction”
Alumni
Seeds of Success
Mahzi Malcolm Martin ’15 is the founder of Planticular, a Manhattan-based company that helps individuals and organizations design and maintain plant-filled indoor and outdoor spaces.
Brewing Up a Little History
Noah Chadwick ’13 is part owner of Mobtown Brewing Company, which opened in 2019 in a southeast Baltimore neighborhood.
Gulfstream Expert
Jenifer Clark ’75 MA is a satellite oceanographer specializing in the patterns of the Gulf Stream.
Bringing Art to New Audiences
Asma Naeem ’91 is the new director of the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Notable: Cherié Butts
Cherié Butts ’92 BS, ’97 MS is a medical director in the Therapeutics Development Unit at Biogen, a global biotechnology company that seeks to develop novel therapies for complex diseases.
On Campus
Blue Jays take the lead
What’s happening around the quad this year: focus on Blue Jay athletics and their stellar progress last year.
Collective Creativity
JHU students contribute to murals across Baltimore as part of the art club bARTimore.