Boggs, A&S '81, says her latest album, Janus, tells a story of "chapters opening and closing." A creation born by pandemics—not just COVID-19 but what Boggs saw as the overlapping pandemics of racial violence and a toxic political climate—the album is a blend of jazz, folk, soul, bluegrass, and blues, or "soulgrass."
JHU President Ron Daniels led the charge to eliminate legacy admissions at JHU, with the help of a $1.8 billion gift from Michael R. Bloomberg, a member of the Class of 1964, to support undergraduate financial aid. The effect? "It's simple: It's opened up a lot more space for us to be able to recruit students from a host of different backgrounds," Daniels says. NBC Nightly News shared an interview with President Daniels on Wednesday.
The Sheridan Libraries has acquired the full collection of the Academic Film Archive of North America, bringing more than 7,600 vintage 16-mm films to Johns Hopkins. "We think it has a great deal of value pedagogically and artistically," says Adam Rodgers, director of the Film and Media Studies program.
The university's diversity action plan, its Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative, and disability equity expert Bonnie Swenor received recognition as part of a new White House effort to overcome historical inequities in access to the nation's STEM enterprise
Grover, who earned a PhD from the Bloomberg School in 2004, serves as executive director of the Association of American Medical Colleges' Research and Action Institute
The fellowship, sponsored by the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the U.S., supports interdisciplinary scientific and technological innovations
Certain lifestyle changes can lead to sleep disruption later in life, says Adam Spira, a professor and sleep researcher at the Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dragging the party further to the right might be a good way to avoid primaries in the country's reddest districts, says political scientist Steven Teles, but it also creates a race to the bottom
"Given the high cost of dropping out of high school to both the individual and society, it would be worth it if we had to loosen standards or requirements a bit," says education researcher Robert Balfanz
Hopkins at Home presents a livestream talk at 7 p.m. EST with Hugh Calkins, cardiologist and director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Johns Hopkins; registration required
This New Year’s event at 1 p.m. PST will feature business and career coach Courtney Parks as she shares tips and strategies for successful goal setting and creating a healthy work-life balance in the year ahead and beyond; registration required
Check out the spring 2023 courses from the Alumni Association's Odyssey Program, the Baltimore region's award-winning lifelong learning partner for more than 25 years; click for more info and to register
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