In October 2025, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins surveyed its membership about their preferences for in-person or online courses. The response rate of nearly 25% demonstrates that Osher at JHU members are interested in this issue and not shy in expressing their opinions.
For nearly 18 years, Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Museum Studies program has been attracting kindred spirits.
October 16-18 Event to Explore Security in a Time of Polarized Extremes
The Stories That Matter film series opens the 2025-26 academic year on Wednesday, October 8, with the screening of the Academy Award® winning Netflix documentary “The Only Girl in the Orchestra,” at 6:30 p.m. in the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C.
Forbes has recognized Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Economics graduate degree as their Best Online Master’s in Economics.
Three adventurous Johns Hopkins students - Fatima Malik, Anne Spencer Pratt, and Christine Boucher – and MS in Energy Policy and Climate professor Véronique Bugnion – stepped aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, a 111-year-old Norwegian Tall Ship, on July 8, 2025, for a three-week voyage from the Azores in Portugal to Nuuk, Greenland and the experience of a lifetime.
Osher at JHU members toured the Baltimore Museum of Art with instructor Nora Hamerman on Friday, August 8, and were treated to a one-day print media show with original woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs.
As a member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Johns Hopkins, I take lifelong learning seriously—especially when a class brings together art, history, religion, and sometimes even music and literature.
Osher at JHU congratulates member Dr. Maurine Beasley on her induction to the Hall of Fame of the University of Maryland’s Phillip Merrill College of Journalism on April 3, 2025.
This summer, Osher instructor Lidia Almidon and several class members met at the “Cuba de Ayer” restaurant in Burtonsville, Maryland for lunch. The group from the “Learn Spanish” Zoom class enjoyed good company and food while spending the afternoon together.