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(02/27/26 3:00am)
In honor of its 150th anniversary, Hopkins launched the “Next Conversations” series on Feb. 18, held at the George Peabody Library. Bringing together classicist Karen ní Mheallaigh, philosopher Jenann Ismael and Nobel-Laureate astronomer Adam Riess, the session moderated by Sean Carroll sought to tackle the complex conundrum of how humanity can find its place in an ever-expanding universe.
(02/23/26 12:00pm)
This Valentine’s Day, my boyfriend planned a special date and surprised me with a trip to the Walters Art Museum! Despite his usual tendency to plan low-key outings, I was thrilled by the thoughtfulness of the adventure. With my camera in hand and my inner art critic fully activated, I hurriedly packed my bags to capture as many pictures as I could before someone noticed my awkward posing next to medieval cats.
(02/24/26 10:29pm)
On Thursday, Feb. 19, Ali May, an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai presented her research on the various ways tissue resident macrophages shape embryonic salivary gland development as part of the Department of Biology Seminar Series. Through her research, primarily on embryonic salivary glands, May presented her investigation on macrophages and their capabilities to potentially guide organ development, expanding the role of these cells outside of fighting infection and sculpting tissue architecture during the cell cycle.
(03/01/26 11:52pm)
On Friday, Jan. 23, I had the privilege of attending the University of Maryland’s Spatial Biology Symposium, which featured talks on developmental biology, cancer and neuroscience. In this piece, I highlight one particular talk that caught my interest — given by Elana Fertig, Dean E. Albert Reece Endowed Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland. Fertig’s talk centered around rethinking how we can predict and monitor the carcinogenesis of pancreatic cancer through a spatial biology and computational lens. Although my knowledge in the field of spatial biology is limited, frankly, I would like to offer my best understanding of the key ideas and takeaways.
(02/22/26 5:51pm)
It comes as no surprise that Emerald Fennell, the daughter of a wealthy jewelry baron, gravitates toward stories drenched in excess. While she certainly brings copious amounts of style with her shocking and provocative films, a common critique of her works is in their lack of substance. Her films A Promising Young Woman (2020) and Saltburn (2023) allude to commentaries on the #MeToo movement as well as wealth and class struggles, respectively, that never actually present themselves, and her latest venture, “Wuthering Heights” (2026), completes this trifecta of disappointing discourse bait — films designed less to mean something than to make everyone argue about what they think they meant.
(03/09/26 3:00am)
All of this has happened before. Right now, I am drinking a 16 oz. Watermelon Celsius because CharMar ran out of Blue Crush. I am writing another article about riding a train slightly less than a year after the first because my mind ran out of other ideas. This article will be less interesting because I did not venture outside Union Station this time in Chicago, and instead of reading books to spark cognitive shifts I watched Wicked. And Dear Evan Hansen. And Criminal Minds. Call this a sequel, the type that’s worse than the first. At least this time, no one called me Jack Harlow — only something worse. You be the judge.
(03/11/26 4:03am)
From my little desk in the corner of the Housing Office in Wolman 103, I’ve gotten to witness the freshman and sophomore classes grow into the comfort of calling their dorms “home.” Groups of strangers on move-in day leave as best friends on move-out.
(03/07/26 10:12pm)
It's such a simple question. Deceptively simple, even. Whether it’s meeting your roommate for the first time or waiting awkwardly in line at Levering Kitchens, I’m sure many of us have encountered this staple of small talk. Answering this question should be easy — second nature by now. Yet it’s one I’ve always struggled to respond to.
(03/07/26 10:11pm)
One morning, I woke up to find my phone charger unceremoniously tugged to the floor, in the space between my bed and the window ledge where it was originally placed. And as I did the usual awkward reach into that crevice, I realized that the loss of my phone and the subsequent back pain for its retrieval were punishment. The skein of baby pink yarn on that same ledge, studded with my 0.7 mm crochet hook, was tangled with my charging cable. My toxic situationship wanted attention, and it had decided that aggressively strangling my phone was the best way to receive it.
(02/21/26 5:57pm)
With the Seattle Seahawks’ victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX, Seahawks QB Sam Darnold has reached the summit of professional football. However, his climb has been anything but smooth. Darnold’s career shows that the combination of perseverance, dedication and the right support can completely warp one’s trajectory.
(02/25/26 11:00am)
The sound of a blender at seven in the morning is usually the herald of a New Year’s Resolution. It’s the sound of frozen blueberries, spinach, protein powder and milk being pulverized into some slush; the kind of health smoothie that promises a fresh start with a healthier body and mind.
(03/11/26 4:34am)
When I was twelve, I wrote a children’s book called What’s In My Lunchbox? for my sixth-grade English class, which detailed the origins of a B.L.T. sandwich, an apple juice box and a bag of potato chips. As I put together drawings of a little ant crawling his way through the genesis of my lunch, I learned that Mott’s apple juice is bottled in my home state of New York, that the potato chip factories often throw away entire truckloads of potatoes if too many are found to be blemished and that the crispy bacon in my sandwich was produced in a massive industrialized farming facility run almost entirely by an underpaid migrant workforce. My book was celebrated with many prestigious literary awards (check pluses, gold stars...). I became a vegetarian shortly afterwards.
(02/16/26 2:34pm)
Nanjing, China. I thought I would eventually write this. It’s just too emotional for me. It’s hard to put into words, which is funny, because you’re also where my words began.
(02/13/26 5:00am)
Jeff Bowen is a social psychologist who has been an associate teaching professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences since the fall of 2017. He primarily teaches undergraduate research methods and statistics classes and also runs an undergraduate research lab focused on the social psychology of interpersonal relationships. In an interview with The News-Letter, Bowen discussed his lab’s focuses on romantic partnerships, how people navigate both online and in-person social experiences and the methods used to measure these concepts and experiences.
(02/11/26 12:00pm)
The University has begun construction of the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Institute (DSAI) by cutting down trees on Remington Avenue in early January 2026. Construction has closed Wyman Park Drive to drivers and soon will to pedestrians in summer 2026. The project is scheduled to conclude in 2029.
(02/12/26 9:00am)
On Feb. 8, the Hopkins Tea Club hosted its third annual “Tea Formal.” The Tea Club is a cross-campus student organization with members from both the Peabody and Homewood campuses. Its mission, to educate Hopkins affiliates on the practices of tea brewing, serves to spread the traditions of tea to all through events such as the Tea Formal.
(02/11/26 8:00pm)
On Thursday, Feb. 5, the Center for Social Concern (CSC) held a discussion on Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as part of its Hop Talks series. The event was held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Levering Great Hall.
(02/11/26 5:00am)
Anicca Harriot, a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins specializing in tissue engineering, was recently awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Community Service at Hopkins’ Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration on Jan. 16. This year’s theme for the award was “Impact: The Power of Communities.” As the CEO of Vanguard: Conversations with Women of Color in STEM, #VanguardSTEM for short, Harriot has greatly contributed to the community of women and non-binary people of color pursuing careers in STEM-related fields.
(02/09/26 7:09pm)
Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women in the United States, with more than 300,000 new cases being diagnosed each year. While approximately half of diagnoses are middle aged women (50-70 years old), about 10% are women under the age of 45 and 20% are women over the age of 70. Current forms of treatment range from surgery such as lumpectomy (removal of a tumor from the breast) and mastectomy (removal of all breast tissue from the breast) to radiation therapy to chemotherapy, as well as multimodal approaches involving two or more treatments.
(02/13/26 8:00am)
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute describes its mission as follows: to “support open dialogue, active debate, and collaborative efforts to address public problems” and to “strengthen democracy through these efforts.” Its Visiting Fellow program aims to support this mission by providing selected candidates with funding to pursue independent projects designed to promote democracy. This year, Johnnie Moore, head of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial aid outfit condemned by humanitarian groups for its militarization of assistance for civilians, was selected as a 2025–26 SNF Agora Visiting Fellow.
