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Congratulations to our current student Leah Spellman who has been working on a book about war brides.

Episode 20-06: an interview with Kaitlyn Kingsland

Congratulations to the Center for Biotechnology Education alum Arthur Kuan for his spot on Forbes’ 30 under 30 in healthcare list! Kuan earned his MS in Biotechnology from JHU’s Advanced Academic Programs and is now the Chief Executive Officer of Cold Genesys, Inc.

Kasey Pipes (MA in Government ’99) returned to the JHU Center for Advanced Governmental Studies to discuss his latest book publication: After the Fall: The Remarkable Comeback of Richard Nixon (Regnery History: 2019).

Writing Program faculty member Susan Muaddi Darraj wrote a commentary on the statistics recently published by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, illustrating the lack of diversity in the publishing world. 

Sundance Institute announced the Future of Culture Initiative, an action plan that includes partnerships with Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University in order to implement key recommendations from a two-year global field scan that analyzed strategies for improving equity and inclusion in emerging media. The initiative puts artists in discourse with technologists, scientists, policymakers, advocates and business leaders to imagine and design for the future of culture.

Vanasco's memoir was both chosen for a full book review, as well as included in TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019.

Episode 19-05: An interview with Elizabeth Galvin

In this issue, we discuss the challenges that modern farming community is facing, nature conservation and sustainability in Cuba, the pristine ecosystem of Glacier National Park, and the importance of science communication in facilitating change.

The Inverse Poisson Functional has been proposed by Dr. Zachary as a tool for forecasting response time to environmental events and global climate change.