Johns Hopkins Arts & Sciences
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The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is the core institution of the Johns Hopkins complex of schools, centers, and institutes.
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Congratulations to Stephanie DeLuca, Paul McHugh, and Steven M. Teles on being elected members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. 🎉
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American Academy of Sciences and Letters invests three from Johns Hopkins
Professors Stephanie DeLuca, Paul McHugh, and Steven M. Teles were recognized for outstanding scholarly achievement, and McHugh was awarded the Robert J. Zimmer Medal for Intellectual Freedom
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November 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Congratulations to Stephanie DeLuca, Paul McHugh, and Steven M. Teles on being elected members of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. 🎉
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Professors Janice Chen and @doramalech.bsky.social Malech launched a fiction contest to study how shifting emotions in a story shape memory and activate the brain. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/11/your...
Your Brain on Fiction - Arts & Sciences Magazine
The winning writers received a framed poster created by doctoral student Samira Tavassoli. (Photography by Will Kirk) What steps do you take to figure out
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November 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Professors Janice Chen and @doramalech.bsky.social Malech launched a fiction contest to study how shifting emotions in a story shape memory and activate the brain. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/11/your...
Great news! 🎉The Johns Hopkins film and media programs are ranked No. 20 in the U.S. by TheWrap’s 2025 Top 50 Film Schools list, recognizing decades of creativity, collaboration, and real-world filmmaking experience. hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/03/j...
Johns Hopkins film and media programs nationally ranked by TheWrap
Hopkins undergraduate and graduate programs land at No. 20 in rankings compiled by leading digital news outlet covering the entertainment and media industry
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November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Great news! 🎉The Johns Hopkins film and media programs are ranked No. 20 in the U.S. by TheWrap’s 2025 Top 50 Film Schools list, recognizing decades of creativity, collaboration, and real-world filmmaking experience. hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/03/j...
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute has partnered with nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum to publish one new work of literary translation each year. This collaboration also includes a translator residency, campus events, and graduate student workshops. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/deep...
Deep Vellum partnership creates new literary translations - Arts & Sciences Magazine
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and Deep Vellum have started a partnership to create new and innovative translations.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute has partnered with nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum to publish one new work of literary translation each year. This collaboration also includes a translator residency, campus events, and graduate student workshops. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/deep...
We tend to assume that we will see things right in front of us. "But if there is some big object casting light into our eyes, and we wouldn't see it because our attention is elsewhere—that's really fascinating!" says @chazfirestone.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
Seeing the bigger picture
Experts at Johns Hopkins shed new light on inattentional blindness, the tendency among us to miss noticing something obvious when our minds are caught up in other things
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October 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We tend to assume that we will see things right in front of us. "But if there is some big object casting light into our eyes, and we wouldn't see it because our attention is elsewhere—that's really fascinating!" says @chazfirestone.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...
The Race, Aesthetics, Speculation Conference brings together leading scholars to examine how the representation of race and ethnicity intersects with theories of aesthetics, literary form, and speculative thought. 📅11/10
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October 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Race, Aesthetics, Speculation Conference brings together leading scholars to examine how the representation of race and ethnicity intersects with theories of aesthetics, literary form, and speculative thought. 📅11/10
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A strange gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center could point to dark matter or a cluster of pulsars. 🌌https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/16/mysterious-glow-in-milky-way-dark-matter/
Mysterious glow in Milky Way could be evidence of dark matter
New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy
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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A strange gamma-ray glow at the Milky Way’s center could point to dark matter or a cluster of pulsars. 🌌https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/16/mysterious-glow-in-milky-way-dark-matter/
“Trying x Trying” fits right into this moment. In her @baltfishbowl.bsky.social interview, professor @doramalech.bsky.social talks about language, grief, motherhood, and writing through these trying times. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/what...
Q&A With Poet and JHU Prof Dora Malech
The poem's in JHU professor and Hopkins Review editor Dora Malech’s "Trying x Trying" find joy through a playful use of language and gravitas through a direct and keenly observed rendering of our worl...
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October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
“Trying x Trying” fits right into this moment. In her @baltfishbowl.bsky.social interview, professor @doramalech.bsky.social talks about language, grief, motherhood, and writing through these trying times. baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/what...
Congratulations to @hahrie.bsky.social, recipient of a @macfound.org genius grant for her research on political organizing, social movements, collective action, civic engagement, and democracy. 🎉https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/hahrie-han-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant/
Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant
Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition
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October 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Congratulations to @hahrie.bsky.social, recipient of a @macfound.org genius grant for her research on political organizing, social movements, collective action, civic engagement, and democracy. 🎉https://hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/hahrie-han-macarthur-fellowship-genius-grant/
Congratulations to JHU chemist @tomkempa.bsky.social, who has received a $1.3M @moorefound.bsky.social award to advance his “lattice embossing” research, which aims to control quantum states in 2D materials. hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/t...
Johns Hopkins chemist Thomas Kempa receives $1.3M Moore Foundation award
Prestigious award from foundation's Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative supports work that advances fundamental research by 'brilliant mid-career scientists'
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October 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Congratulations to JHU chemist @tomkempa.bsky.social, who has received a $1.3M @moorefound.bsky.social award to advance his “lattice embossing” research, which aims to control quantum states in 2D materials. hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/t...
The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum reopens on October 13 after three years of updates, renewing a 140-year legacy as a hands-on space for students and scholars to connect with ancient cultures. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/home...
Home for Ancient Objects Enters New Era - Arts & Sciences Magazine
Photography by Will Kirk When the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum officially reopens on October 13, it will celebrate both 140-plus years of
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October 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum reopens on October 13 after three years of updates, renewing a 140-year legacy as a hands-on space for students and scholars to connect with ancient cultures. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/home...
On October 15, the Fifth Annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival will bring together civic leaders, students, scholars, and Baltimore community members for an afternoon of dialogue and ideas. snfagora.jhu.edu/event/fifth-...
Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival
The Fifth Annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival will bring together civic leaders, students, scholars, and local Baltimore community members for an afternoon of connection, curiosit...
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October 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
On October 15, the Fifth Annual Elijah E. Cummings Democracy and Freedom Festival will bring together civic leaders, students, scholars, and Baltimore community members for an afternoon of dialogue and ideas. snfagora.jhu.edu/event/fifth-...
Johns Hopkins has launched a new Department of Neuroscience, bringing together researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Arts & Sciences. With faculty across Hopkins, the department includes 1,000+ brain researchers, 450 neuroscience majors, and 121 PhD students. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/15/j...
Johns Hopkins brain scientists converge in cross-university neuroscience department
Shared by the schools of Medicine and Arts and Sciences, the Department of Neuroscience aims to unify neuroscience research and education across the university
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September 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Johns Hopkins has launched a new Department of Neuroscience, bringing together researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine and Arts & Sciences. With faculty across Hopkins, the department includes 1,000+ brain researchers, 450 neuroscience majors, and 121 PhD students. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/15/j...
Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how today’s political battles could destabilize the Federal Reserve and reshape the global economy. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/16/t...
The importance of preserving the independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve
Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how prevailing political forces threaten to disrupt the nation's money supply and the global economy
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September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how today’s political battles could destabilize the Federal Reserve and reshape the global economy. hub.jhu.edu/2025/09/16/t...
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First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
First day of my Philosophy of Cosmology class! I'm interpreting "cosmology" pretty broadly. There will be three main topics: 1) Anthropics and the multiverse; 2) The arrow of time; 3) Quantum foundations, especially Many-Worlds. The idea of self-locating uncertainties will be a common thread.
Hopkins researchers are using phone-camera style sensors to hunt for ultra-light dark matter, opening a new window in particle physics. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/27/n...
New dark matter detectors look for 'wimpier' particles
Hopkins researchers help develop technology to broaden search for universe's greatest mystery
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August 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hopkins researchers are using phone-camera style sensors to hunt for ultra-light dark matter, opening a new window in particle physics. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/27/n...
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When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
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In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
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Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the
locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates
can track individual conspecifics...
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August 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
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Rabbits and elephants aren’t so different...🐇🐘 Check out this cool research from @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social
On the left is a rabbit. On the right is an elephant. But guess what: They’re the *same image*, rotated 90°!
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
In @currentbiology.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I show how these images—known as “visual anagrams”—can help solve a longstanding problem in cognitive science. bit.ly/45BVnCZ
August 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Rabbits and elephants aren’t so different...🐇🐘 Check out this cool research from @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social
Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social
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Four Johns Hopkins scholars selected for Simons Foundation collaborations
The highly competitive projects bring together experts from a range of disciplines to explore promising topics of fundamental scientific importance
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August 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Four JHU scholars are joining @simonsfoundation.org collaborations in black holes, neural computation, ecological neuroscience, and cosmology. @emaberti.bsky.social
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Johns Hopkins welcomed the Class of 2029 on Sunday. Approximately 1,300 first-year students arrived from 49 states, 28 countries, as well as Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and American Samoa. Roughly one in five is a first‑generation college student. hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
Johns Hopkins welcomes hundreds of new Blue Jays to campus
Incoming first-year students moved into Homewood campus residence halls on Sunday, marking the beginning of New Student Orientation
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August 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Johns Hopkins welcomed the Class of 2029 on Sunday. Approximately 1,300 first-year students arrived from 49 states, 28 countries, as well as Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, and American Samoa. Roughly one in five is a first‑generation college student. hub.jhu.edu/gallery/2025...
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Baltimore folks, I’m really looking forward to talking this week at the Ivy Bookshop about my new book, Something Between Us. How can we rebuild a collective life beyond forces of division and suspicion? Please join us this Thursday, August 21st at 6pm.
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Ivy Bookshop - Anand Pandian: SOMETHING BETWEEN US: THE EVERYDAY WALLS OF AMERICAN LIFE, AND HOW TO TAKE THEM DOWN (with Emma Snyder)
In SOMETHING BETWEEN US, anthropologist Anand Pandian offers us a remarkable close-up of the forces that have hardened our suspicions of others. From car dealerships to sales conferences of home forti...
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August 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Baltimore folks, I’m really looking forward to talking this week at the Ivy Bookshop about my new book, Something Between Us. How can we rebuild a collective life beyond forces of division and suspicion? Please join us this Thursday, August 21st at 6pm.
www.theivybookshop.com/event/anand-...
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Bats are helping scientists map how the brain tracks moving objects without sight. Echolocation is giving us a new view of the hippocampus in action. 🦇 Read the study here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
August 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Bats are helping scientists map how the brain tracks moving objects without sight. Echolocation is giving us a new view of the hippocampus in action. 🦇 Read the study here: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Susan Choi, a professor in the Writing Seminars, recently released her sixth novel, Flashlight. The book follows Louisa as she revisits the night her father vanished, exploring themes of captivity, identity, and intuition across 1970s Japan and beyond.
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Out of the darkness
Susan Choi's sixth novel about the traumatic fallout of a father's disappearance blends themes of captivity, identity, and trusting one's intuition
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August 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Susan Choi, a professor in the Writing Seminars, recently released her sixth novel, Flashlight. The book follows Louisa as she revisits the night her father vanished, exploring themes of captivity, identity, and intuition across 1970s Japan and beyond.
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Pioneering algebraic topologist and beloved mentor Jack Morava, passed away at age 80. Considered a "mathematician's mathematician," he was often described as being ahead of his time. He was known for warmth, curiosity, and his legendary gorilla‑suit Halloween story. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/08/j...
Mathematician Jack Morava, renowned algebraic topologist, dies at 80
Morava, a member of the Hopkins faculty for nearly four decades, remembered for his warmth, brilliance
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August 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Pioneering algebraic topologist and beloved mentor Jack Morava, passed away at age 80. Considered a "mathematician's mathematician," he was often described as being ahead of his time. He was known for warmth, curiosity, and his legendary gorilla‑suit Halloween story. hub.jhu.edu/2025/08/08/j...
JHU anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social’s latest op-ed in the @baltimoresun.bsky.social explores the decline of neighborliness in America. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/t...
The decline of neighborliness in America | GUEST COMMENTARY
The decline of neighborliness has heightened our country’s divisions, writes Anand Pandian.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
JHU anthropologist @anandian.bsky.social’s latest op-ed in the @baltimoresun.bsky.social explores the decline of neighborliness in America. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/08/06/t...