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Arts & Sciences Magazine, Fall 2025 The fall 2025 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine covers the ongoing value of a doctoral degree, a spotlight on sociology research at the Krieger School, and the difference Reintroduction to Writing is ...

The Fall 2025 issue of the Arts & Sciences magazine has arrived. Take a look inside for stories on groundbreaking research, standout students, and alumni making an impact. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu

Of space, time, and typewriters Award-winning actor Tom Hanks and Johns Hopkins theater professor James Glossman co-authored the play 'This World of Tomorrow,' which premiered off-Broadway in November

Time travel, nostalgia, and a shot at true love. This World of Tomorrow, a new play co-written by Tom Hanks and James Glossman, a lecturer in JHU’s Theatre Arts & Studies program, premiered off-Broadway in November. hub.jhu.edu/2025/11/25/t...

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

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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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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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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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

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/

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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...

“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...

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

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 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'

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...

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

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-...

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

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...

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

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...

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.

New dark matter detectors look for 'wimpier' particles Hopkins researchers help develop technology to broaden search for universe's greatest mystery

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...

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...

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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Rabbits and elephants aren’t so different...🐇🐘 Check out this cool research from @talboger.bsky.social and @chazfirestone.bsky.social

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

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 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

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...

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...

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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Bats give scientists new glimpse into ‘GPS of the brain’ Sound-based navigation is teaching us how the hippocampus builds spatial representations.

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...

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

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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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

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...

The decline of neighborliness in America | GUEST COMMENTARY The decline of neighborliness has heightened our country’s divisions, writes Anand Pandian.

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...

Four Johns Hopkins professors to speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians Held every four years, the congress is considered the top showcase for new developments in math

Congratulations to four Hopkins mathematicians, Jacob Bernstein, Chikako Mese, Emily Riehl, and Ziquan Zhuang, who have been invited to speak at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). 🎉 #ICM2026 #math
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