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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 through performance, storytelling, and fashion.
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.
Lunch and Learn: How to Promote Your Own Research
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Maryland Hall
Join the Office of Vice Provost for Research to learn how to promote your own research findings by creating a rolodex of contacts, crafting an executive summary, and building a social media presence.
HopGPT Office Hours
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join this monthly drop-in series on Microsoft Teams for the HopGPT user community to learn about product updates, share use cases, and connect with the product team.
WSE Faculty Showcase | Designing a Competency-Based and Engaging STEM Lab
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 a competency-based approach to learning in the electronics lab, where students build understanding through iterative experimentation, instructor check-offs, and flexible deadlines. Rather than focusing only on completed circuits, the course emphasizes deep learning, troubleshooting, and the reasoning that underlies engineering practice.
Hopkins AI and Healthcare Convening: An HBHI x DSAI Capstone
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mount Washington
The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative Workgroup on AI and Healthcare and the Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute are convening together for the first time. The end-of-year capstone will bring together faculty, researchers, and clinicians from across Johns Hopkins for a half day of lightning-round research talks, discussion, and networking.
Idea to Industry: From Discovery to Clinic: A Chemist's Guide to Drug Development
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
FastForward 1812
In this session, Tim Dore brings a chemist's perspective to the full arc of drug development — from early hit identification and lead optimization through development candidate selection, IND-enabling studies, and post-market surveillance.
Becoming Women: Girlhood, Blackness, and Coming of Age in the Antebellum South
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Homewood Museum
In antebellum America, enslaved girls were among the most vulnerable members of society due to anti-Black racism, sexism, and ageism. But Black girls and their community laid claim to childhood innocence despite enslavers' persistent efforts to adultify them. Doctoral candidate MaDeja Leverett will highlight the girlhood experiences of two specific girls, Harriet Jacobs and Louisa Picquet, as significant examples that speak to the intricacies of enslaved girls' lives.
Health Research Day
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Join the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research for a lively day highlighting how health research shapes better care. Discover real-world impact, connect with experts, and take part in hands-on activities. Open to health-care professionals, patients, families, and anyone curious.