Five Hundred Buildings of Paris Text by Kathy Borrus, A&S ’98 (MA), photos by Jorg Brockmann and James Driscoll (Black Dog & Leventhal) At 3 pounds and over 600 slick pages, this guidebook extraordinaire is worth any overage on your flight to Paris. Maps and photos are arranged according to the city’s 20 arrondissements, with […]

The Volunteer Summit explores how students and faculty can capitalize on the best of both the virtual and the actual world.

Orphaned at 11, a Lost Boy returns to South Sudan in a new role: founding father.

Brian Ganz, Peab ’93 (AD) In 16 hours, you could drive from any Johns Hopkins Baltimore campus to Memphis, with time to stop for lunch in Nashville along the way. You could run the New York City Marathon three and a half times. You could watch Gone with the Wind four times through, including a […]

Erin Ganju, A&S ’91, SAIS ’92, traded corporate success for her dream job—increasing literacy around the world.

Rebecca Chiao, SAIS ’04 Weeks before its formal December launch, the Cairo-based website HarassMap was already buzzing with dozens of contributions. “Car full of pervs in Zamalek,” read one anonymous report of sexual harassment in the Egyptian capital. “Nearly every male passing me slowed to ogle and smirk, making me less confident and more angry […]

Michael D. White, SAIS ’76 Mike White had a rough workweek last summer as a rookie employee with DirecTV, the satellite television provider. He was clumsy wielding a power drill during a rooftop dish installation. Clueless in the warehouse, he was instead dispatched outside to jump up and down in a dumpster to flatten a […]

It took years for human trafficking whistleblower Kathy Bolkovac to turn her story into a major motion picture. It took Cari Lynn, A&S ’97 (MA), just six weeks to write the book.

John Cody, Med ’49 (Cert)—illustrator, author, and retired psychiatrist—has spent a lifetime painting beautiful and ornate saturniid moths.

The Volunteer Summit takes a fresh look at old challenges. First up: finding innovative ways to engage with the local community.