News – Johns Hopkins University Student Well-Being

Students wrap up Design Day projects

Students finalize their projects—including an edible tortilla tape, an odorous elephant enrichment device, and others—ahead of the annual Design Day engineering showcase May 3

Johns Hopkins graduate students create a lymphedema detection sensor

Device detects fluid buildup in tissue and alerts patients and their doctors, potentially preventing thousands of cancer patients from developing the debilitating condition

Johns Hopkins unveils portrait of Elijah Cummings, 'devoted son of Baltimore'

Painting of the late congressman, created by Baltimore artist Christopher Batten, will hang in the university's MSE Library

Community organizing led Dominique Hazzard to research the history of food inequity, a discipline that, in turn, fueled in her an even stronger drive to advocate for change

Blind people remember language better than sighted people do

Researchers theorize that the area responsible for vision in sighted people may enhance recall or language processing abilities in people who are blind

Indoor oceans for science's sake

Opened in summer 2020, the Applied Physics Laboratory's new NAMI facility allows researchers to simulate real-life marine environments

Unscrambling our memories in the wake of COVID-19

Recent research highlights the pandemic's impact on our perception of time and memory. Can we jumpstart new memories, or is this shift permanent?

JHU's pep band turns 100

A look back at the persistently pesky music troupe

What is guaranteed income?

As Baltimore announces a pilot program to provide cash payments to its poorest residents, experts on the health effects of poverty discuss guaranteed income programs and their impact on public health

In 'Shelter,' JHU Professor of English and History Lawrence Jackson processes a homecoming to Baltimore