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Preparing for an Active Assailant
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
This training teaches survival techniques for an active-assailant scenario, including what to expect when the police arrive. The course is delivered by the Johns Hopkins Public Safety training team and is built on the Run. Hide. Fight. strategy.
2026 Horizons by Hopkins
10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Bloomberg Student Center
Hosted by the Doctoral Life Design Studio, Horizons by Hopkins is Johns Hopkins University's flagship career exploration conference for doctoral students and postdocs. It's designed to help doctoral students and postdocs make sense of their career options and prepare for what's next. Lunch will be served during the opening conversation. Doctoral students and postdocs are invited to join an alumni reception at the close of the day.
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. 
Building Team Resilience in Complex Systems: Strengthening Collective Capacity for Action
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
School of Nursing
The Center for Health/Salud and Opportunity for Latines (Centro SOL) and the HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative (HEAL) present the 2026 conference as a space to connect, reflect, and leverage our collective voices to advance health equity, launching with a leadership seminar titled "Building Team Resilience in Complex Systems: Strengthening Collective Capacity for Action." Open to community health work professionals; volunteer opportunities available for students.
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.
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.