News Archive

Congrats to all who participated and to the 2019 3MT competition winners!

Winners: First Place: Eduardo Martinez-Montes, School of Medicine, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology The Lazy Librarian  Second Place: Katie Overbey, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Environmental Health and Engineering Application of Novel […]

Creating a Space for the Humanities by Dr. Egginton

William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities, reflects on the opening of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University and its contributions to students, faculty, and community programming at a STEM-oriented campus.

The Peabody Ballroom Experience

The Peabody Ballroom Experience is an ongoing public humanities collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore’s ballroom community, a performance-based arts culture comprising gay, lesbian, and transgender people of color. […]

Humanities-Focused Article by Dr. Egginton Published in New York Times

Is Computer Code a Foreign Language? No. And high schools shouldn’t treat it that way. Maryland’s legislature is considering a bill to allow computer coding courses to fulfill the foreign language graduation requirement for high school.

Johns Hopkins establishes Humanities Institute

Philanthropist Elizabeth Grass Weese and her brother, Roger Grass, have committed $10 million to advance humanities scholarship and teaching at the Johns Hopkins University and to promote literature, art, philosophy, history, and other cultural studies in Baltimore and the wider community. Their gift, through the Alexander Grass Foundation, is the largest ever to Johns Hopkins...