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(09/17/25 10:00am)
Whether a student is out exploring the numerous activities Baltimore has to offer or being confined to a desk to study for an upcoming exam, history is ever-present. There is history to every human being and object, as the past affects the present and the present affects the future. The Undergraduate History Association (UHA) is one such club that emphasizes the integral role of history in society to the Hopkins student body.
(09/25/25 1:50am)
“When I first did the hearing experiment on mice, it was so straightforward — I could see the connection right away between what we were testing and the bigger picture of hearing loss,” Kate Xie shared in an interview with The News-Letter. As a senior double majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Writing Seminars, Xie is involved in research investigating hearing loss and neural pathways involved with it.
(09/17/25 1:10am)
School is officially back in session! It’s been a couple of weeks since our first day of classes, and so the fall season of Hopkins sports are well underway. The 2024-25 was an immense success for the Blue Jays, as they finished runners up in the DIII Learfield Director’s Cup, only trailing Emory University. Hopefully this season can see continued success across all disciplines, and perhaps a first place finish in the Director’s Cup to make it three in four years! Without further ado, let’s look at some of the action from the beginning of the season…
(09/16/25 3:31am)
This week’s installment of To Watch and Watch For comes conveniently before the inevitable onslaught of midterm season. Now is the ideal time to enjoy a packed lineup of film, books, music and live shows before the semester truly kicks in. One way to soften the unstoppable march of time is to slow down, immerse yourself in the arts and appreciate what the world has to offer at the moment. On that note, the Arts & Entertainment section has you covered.
(09/16/25 2:50pm)
Welcome (or welcome back) to Hopkins! If you’re a seasoned visual artist looking to continue your exploration of the arts, or if you’re just someone curious about what Hopkins and Baltimore have to offer in that regard, here’s what I’ve discovered during the past year.
(09/17/25 1:00am)
Virginia Anderson, in addition to being an adjunct professor in the Program of Museums and Society at Hopkins, is the Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) Curator of American Art and Department Head of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts. In an interview with The News-Letter, Anderson discussed her academic journey and her current experiences at the BMA.
(09/17/25 6:00pm)
On June 2, President Ronald J. Daniels announced a series of budget cuts facilitated by the Faculty Budget Advisory Committee and the Johns Hopkins University Council to offset recent federal funding reductions. These initiatives included pausing annual pay increases for most employees, freezing hiring for new and existing staff positions, slowing capital projects involving research and student life and reducing discretionary spending on travel, food, supplies and professional services.
(09/17/25 1:24am)
How do brains turn environmental inputs into motor outputs?
(09/16/25 4:00pm)
Laboratory workshops, collaborative or independent projects, community events and personal fulfillment — Agara Bio brings it all together.
(09/16/25 9:00am)
2,977 American flags were placed on Decker Quad on Wednesday, Sept. 10 to commemorate the Sept. 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, in which three airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with another airplane crashing in Western Pennsylvania. This memorial was completed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins College Republicans, Democrats and the Hopkins Political Union.
(09/24/25 10:02pm)
This summer, I built Ikea furniture. Well, not exactly. I had many pieces thrown at me at once. The instructions were written in a completely different language, and every time I put one shelf together, my work table collapsed under the weight of all my other half-built shelves. Most of my time was spent panicking, since I needed to have a giant complex-shaped shelf with interlocking pieces, that included functional drawers and sliding panels with many fragile components, fitted together in just a few days. I was expected to know how every single piece fit together perfectly. In case it wasn’t obvious, I completed Organic Chemistry I in just one month this summer.
(09/15/25 4:46pm)
During the COVID lockdown in his gap year at the Technical University of Munich, Hopkins senior Alexander Kim started development of what would become the haptic communication device. He is currently working toward a combined Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Robotics, and he is in the late stages of patenting his device through Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV). In an interview with The News-Letter, Kim described his journey developing his idea and the patent process.
(09/16/25 1:00am)
Second Year Experience hosted the “Sophomore September Resource Fair” on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. Rooms 204 and 210 in the Bloomberg Student Center were home to an exhibition of the varied Hopkins facilities available for its second-year students. This year’s fair – the first of its kind held at Hopkins – contained enough booths to fill two rooms. It was dedicated to providing students with the opportunity to learn more about how they could make full use of the University’s student-focused assets.
(09/15/25 3:15am)
In Baltimore, wings are more than just a late-night craving. They’re a comfort food, a neighborhood staple and for many newcomers, their first delicious introduction to the city’s food scene. Whether you’re chasing that classic Old Bay hit or craving a fusion twist, these five spots prove that Baltimore knows how to do wings right.
(09/16/25 11:00am)
During the first week of college, my roommates and I walked to Kung Fu Tea. We had just moved into our dorms and barely knew the city, but boba felt like a safe place to begin. I ordered my usual: brown sugar milk tea with 50% sugar and light ice.
(09/22/25 1:00am)
I’m living The Simple Life.
(09/18/25 8:00am)
Week One of the NFL season is officially complete, and as such, there is no better time to take a preliminary look at what could be some of the best teams in the league this year. Will this hold up by season’s end? Probably not… but a bit of harmless predicting has never hurt anyone! So let’s get into it…
(09/17/25 4:00am)
From boundary-pushing progressive country and uncompromising hardcore hip-hop to rebellious electroclash, this recent summer’s album releases delivered something for everyone. In keeping with the Arts & Entertainment section’s yearly tradition, our writers are here to share their album of the summer picks. Each writer will make their case for their favorite(s), and maybe help you discover a new sound that sticks with you!
(09/18/25 4:00am)
Artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction and protein design tools have revolutionized structural biology. Chief among these tools is AlphaFold, which was developed by researchers at Google DeepMind and recently won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. AlphaFold was trained on existing protein structures, which makes it extremely proficient at predicting the structure of stable proteins with well-characterized domains. However, it struggles with predicting the structures of misfolded proteins and intrinsically disordered domains, which are prevalent in many degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and cystic fibrosis. Therefore, it is crucial to study how proteins related in these diseases misfold in order to understand the pathologies and develop treatments and cures for these diseases.
(09/18/25 12:00am)
Erin Sutton, flight dynamics model validation lead for NASA’s Dragonfly mission, visited to the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics on Sept. 10 to share her work on the Dragonfly, a car-sized rotorcraft whose goal is to fly through the methane-rich atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The seminar highlighted the challenges of validating flight dynamics for Titan’s environment, a notoriously hazy, treacherous terrain, and how Sutton’s team continues to push the boundaries of aerospace engineering and planetary exploration.
