Events

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.

Celebrate the Class of 2026 with an outdoor ceremony on Homewood Field at 9 a.m. on Thursday, May 21

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.

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.

Members of the Johns Hopkins research community are welcome to 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.

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.

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.

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.

Celebrate a decade of impact at the 10th Annual Johns Hopkins Below the Belt Stride and Thrive 5K on National Cancer Survivors Day. This milestone event brings the Baltimore community together to honor survivors, support caregivers, and raise critical funds for the Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service. Organizers are aiming for at least 1,500 participants and hope to exceed $500,000 raised for the second year in a row—help make this their biggest celebration yet.

Join the in-person 2026 Learning Health System (LHS) Symposium to explore this year's LHS research and innovation from across the Johns Hopkins health system. The symposium will feature a full day of panels, poster presentations, innovative projects, and networking opportunities.