Moved by the Ukrainian people's resilience and outraged by the reported attacks on health care facilities, Jonathan Klein (far left), an Army veteran who is midway through an online master's degree in global security studies at Johns Hopkins, joined Project Independence Day, which purchased and personally delivered much-needed ambulances to the central Ukrainian city Kryvyi Rih.
JHU hosts a live expert briefing focused on innovative approaches for redressing the impact of social inequality and the pandemic on learning loss, preventing dropouts and absenteeism, and delivering school-based health care to address health disparities; registration required
The fall edition of Johns Hopkins Magazine includes a tribute to entrepreneur and philanthropist Ralph O’Connor—the treasured Hopkins alum, former trustee, and longtime supporter of student life whose generosity established the popular Homewood rec center bearing his name. Through his support, O'Connor has touched almost every corner of campus life, from athletics and recreation to academics and sustainability.
Josh Bilenker, Med '99, Keith Flaherty, Med '97, Steve Harr, Med '98, and Ross Levine, Med '99, simultaneously attended the School of Medicine, but they only grew close after graduation. It was the "common aspirations around pushing the envelope in making novel and disruptive therapeutics for patients" that brought them together.
Psilocybin can help people emerge from depression, spur others to quit smoking, and even allow those facing terminal cancer to make peace with death. A new $900,000 grant will allow researchers from Johns Hopkins, Yale, and NYU to build out a postdoctoral fellowship and gold-standard training program in psychedelic therapy.
Jay has graciously offered to be an im-peck-able fill-in (with great dance moves) for Poe, the Baltimore Ravens mascot who has been put on injured reserve for the rest of the season
Earth's "early record is lost, and we think it may have been really critical to when life was able to form on Earth," says APL planetary geologist Brett Denevi. "It shapes that habitable environment and really affects it."
"This is not in their heads," says Alba Azola, who helps run the post-acute COVID team at Johns Hopkins Hospital. "This is not something that is just to get out work or a disability scam. These patients just want to be themselves again."
Hopkins at Home and the Applied Physics Lab present a discussion with Elena Adams of APL about DART—NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission set to crash into an asteroid Sept. 26; registration required
Join a virtual discussion with panelists who will share their expertise on how to stop questioning our capabilities, particularly when perception does not match reality; registration required
Lawyer Traci Park, A&S ’97, and casting director Sunny Boling, A&S ’99, will talk about their career paths during this in-person discussion in Los Angeles; registration required
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