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Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Romila Detering on Early Student Records

Posted on March 12, 2025 by Brooke Shilling
scan of Johns Hopkins University's application to undergraduate admission from the early 1900s

Enjoy this post by Romila Detering, one of our Special Collections First-Year Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year. As I paged through the yearbooks from the late 1910s, I gasped […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Maneeza Khan on Early Student Records

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Brooke Shilling

Enjoy this post by Maneeza Khan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. Interested in applying? Find out about the 2024-2025 program here. Welcome back […]


In Memoriam: Remembering Aurelia Garland Bolton

Posted on May 4, 2024 by Amy Mulvihill
Aurelia Garland Bolton stands on Homewood Museum's South Portico after having cut the green ribbon at the museum's 25th anniversary celebration in 2012.

The Johns Hopkins University Museums mourn the recent passing of Aurelia Garland Bolton, a stalwart supporter who had an exceptionally long history with and fierce devotion to Homewood. 


JHU Museums Year in Review: Interns

Posted on December 14, 2023 by Amy Mulvihill

It is often said that the Johns Hopkins University Museums are laboratories of learning. Homewood Museum and Evergreen Museum & Library certainly lived up to that reputation in 2023, hosting […]


Meet Our First-Year Fellows: Maneeza Khan on Early Student Records

Posted on December 9, 2023 by Brooke Shilling

Enjoy this post by Maneeza Khan, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year. My eyes widened in awe as I read the impressive accomplishments of […]


In Memoriam: Remembering Sylvia Eggleston Wehr

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Amy Mulvihill
Sylvia Eggleston Wehr

Dear Friends, On behalf of the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums, I express our profound sadness at the passing on Sunday of Sylvia Eggleston Wehr, the trailblazing development doyenne who […]


Homewood Museum’s Historic Privy: Renovation and Reconsideration

Posted on July 7, 2023 by Amy Mulvihill

Throughout the summer and fall of 2022, carpenters, masons, and painters worked to restore the interior of Homewood Museum’s historic privy. Built between 1801 and 1804, when construction on the […]


On the Road With a JH Alum: Bruce Wade and the Legacy of Johns Hopkins Geology

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Margaret Burri

[Today’s post is written by a classmate of mine, Dr. Patricia Maurice. A 1982 graduate of Hopkins, Patricia is a professor emerita in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering […]


Meet our Freshman Fellows: Amy Li on Coeducation

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Katie Carey

Enjoy this post by Amy Li, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year!  Welcome to my first blog post! My name is Amy Li, and […]


Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Katherine Budinger on Hopkins Yearbooks through History

Posted on August 2, 2022 by Jim Stimpert

Enjoy this post by Katherine Budinger, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2021-2022 academic year! Hello! I am Katherine Budinger, and I have dedicated my time over […]


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