PhD candidate Brian Welch discovered a new (and thus far, furthest ever observed) star with...
Issue: Spring 2022, Volume 19, Number 2
Features
What Economists Really Do
More than just Wall Street types or stock market prognosticators, Johns Hopkins economics faculty and students apply their tools to address the world’s most important issues.
The Writers Room at Johns Hopkins
Where budding scriptwriters learn that creating your next binge-watch is a team sport.
Black Beyond Data
Historian Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history.
Centerpiece
This spring included a special commencement ceremony for the Class of 2020.
From the Dean
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.
News
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...
Building the SNF Agora Institute
The SNF Agora Institute broke ground in late fall 2021, with a community celebration, and...
Spring 2022 Faculty Awards
Krieger School faculty garnered more than 20 notable awards and honors this spring, including the...
Spring 2022 Sports News
Sports news from the 2022 spring season of the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.
Musical Artifacts Inside Modern Languages Professor’s Office
See inside Professor Derek Schilling's office, which features a 1940s Philco radio console.
Books to Read in Spring 2022
Three suggested books to read in spring 2022 from Krieger School faculty.
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...
Seen and Heard: Beth Blauer
Creating standards that are easily adoptable, like measuring cases and deaths for COVID, will be...
Seen and Heard: Peter Pomerantsev
One of the most popular Christmas films in Ukraine is Home Alone, which has a...
Seen and Heard: Rajiv McCoy
We’ve discovered millions of genetic variants that were previously not known across samples of thousands...
Seen and Heard: Brenda Rapp
You can imagine how frustrating it is if you can’t find words, if you can’t...
Seen and Heard: Brian Welch
This really opens up a new window into those early days of the universe.”
Faculty We Lost, Spring 2022
In memoriam of Maurice Bessman, Ludwig Brand, Charles Dempsey, and Paul Feldman.
Research
Studying Brain Response to Social Interaction
Assistant Professor Leyla Isik's research focuses on how looking (or watching) social situations helps humans...
Examining the Haitian Revolution
Professor Daniel Desormeaux's work on voodoo, the history of secrecy, and the Haitian Revolution helps...
Faculty
Top Faculty Books Spring 2022
Ten new books from Krieger School faculty, including books on growing up in Baltimore, the...
New Book: What About the Baby?
Academy Professor Alice McDermott discusses her latest collection of essays, What About the Baby.
Student Research
Saving the Bay from Dead Zones
Molecular and cellular biology major Paul Gensbigler is helping to answer unresolved questions about the...
Delving into Social Networks and Teen Vaping
Student Daniel Habib studies social networks and teen vaping, or the use of e-cigarettes, after...
Confronting Cancer through Creative Writing
Student Joyce Ker is developing and leading creative writing workshops to help cancer patients process...
The Neural Links Between Voice and Thought
Behavioral biology major student Jessica Dure is working to better understand how our ability to...
Classroom
Creating a Link Between You and the Universe
The course "The Grandeur of You and the Universe" helps students understand how basic earth,...
Why Students Love the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Major
Four Medicine, Science, and the Humanities majors tell us what makes the MSH major exciting,...
Alumni
Alumnus Wes Unseld Jr., Washington Wizards
Wes Unseld Jr. '97 got a degree in economics at Johns Hopkins before starting a...
Spring 2022 Alumni to Watch
This spring our alumni won Academy Awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards, Tickner Writing Fellowships and more.
Alumnus Leads Health Systems During the Pandemic
Selwyn Vickers '82 led the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System through the pandemic,...
Traveling, Writing, and Finding a Career in Digital Media
Rachel Schnalzer ’15 is an editor at the Los Angeles Times, but has worked at...
Working to Make America a ‘Weather Ready Nation’
Richard Spinrad ’75 has forged a career at the intersection of research and public policy...
On Campus
Matthew Pavesich of the University Writing Program
Matthew Pavesich of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Program discusses the importance and writing and...
Gilman Hall, Then and Now
See Gilman Hall before and after its big renovation.