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Frary Gallery Exhibition: Artistic Generosity and the American Artist Abroad
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Hopkins Bloomberg Center
On view from April 7 to June 13, this exhibition reflects four decades of artistic exchange through the efforts of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation providing permanent works of American art for U.S. embassies around the world.
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive National Symposium 2026
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) is hosting a unique, virtual, three-day symposium that offers a series of complementary panels that demonstrates OIDA's value in addressing fundamental questions of importance to historians, health policy and legal experts, journalists, archivists, and people with lived experience. 
Social Innovation Lab Showcase: 2025–2026 Cohort
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Pava Center
Celebrate a new cohort of changemakers as they pitch ventures tackling real-world challenges and compete for funding and audience support.
WSE Faculty Showcase | Engineering What AI Cannot: A Translational Biomedical Instrumentation Practicum
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the Whiting School for a faculty showcase celebrating high-impact teaching and demonstrating authentic, hands-on teaching in practice. This session highlights an honors-level practicum where students design, build, and validate biomedical instrumentation systems under real-world constraints. Through stakeholder engagement, iterative prototyping, and translational deliverables, students move beyond theory to produce validated engineering solutions with clinical relevance.
Multicultural Celebration
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Hodson Hall
This pre-Commencement celebration honors the experiences of graduating students and is an opportunity to recognize the Johns Hopkins community's community, resilience, contributions, and accomplishments as graduates embark on their next journeys. This year's theme will be "Connecting Communities." A reception immediately follows at 4 p.m. in Levering Hall. Graduating students who want to participate must register by 11:59 p.m. EDT on May 4.
Hopkins Dining Farm Stand
11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Levering Courtyard
Come join Flock Farm Stand and local farm partner Richfield Farm every third Tuesday and meet the farmers keeping local agriculture alive. Offerings vary due to seasonality. Bring your own bag to be more sustainable. Cash and card are accepted. Tell your friends and neighbors in the community—all are welcome.
Johns Hopkins Birthday Celebration & International Studies Thesis Showcase
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Bloomberg Student Center
Join the International Studies Program for a special event celebrating both the legacy of the university's founder and the outstanding work of the next generation of Johns Hopkins scholars in international studies.
Universitywide Commencement ceremony
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Homewood Field
Celebrate the Class of 2026 with an outdoor ceremony on Homewood Field at 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 21
In the Stacks: Queer Archives
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
George Peabody Library
Join this exploration of queer and trans identities across history through historic postcards that offer powerful evidence of queer presence in the past. In dialogue with these archival materials, musicians and local drag artists will bring the past into conversation with the present through performance, storytelling, and fashion. Registration opens at 10 a.m. on April 30.
WSE Faculty Showcase | AI in Teaching Computational Drug Discovery and Development
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Join the Whiting School for a faculty showcase celebrating high-impact teaching and demonstrating authentic, hands-on teaching in practice. This session explores how students learn to use artificial intelligence responsibly while developing hands-on experience in computational drug discovery. Through scaffolded coding, model development, and a capstone focused on AI-enabled drug discovery pipelines, students connect ethical AI use with technical and scientific problem-solving.