We, librarians, are fortunate that we get to meet a lot of incoming Hopkins students. We often request that they give us their “burning questions” — about Baltimore, Hopkins, the […]
Burning Questions: Getting Out on the Town
Apply to Be a First-Year Fellow!
Special Collections is accepting applications for First-Year Fellows, a one-year fellowship exclusively available to our fabulous First-Year undergraduates! The program is designed to introduce students to the joys, challenges, and […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Amy Li on Coeducation
Enjoy this post by Amy Li, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year! Hello, again! My name is Amy Li, a Freshman Fellow for the […]
Summer Reading Recs From Your Librarians! (Part 3)
Prepare yourself, for the third wave of your librarians’ book recommendations is upon you! If you missed our previous editions, make sure to check them out here and here. Let’s […]
Reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Papers, Part III: Fannie Gildersleeve Tonsler
In earlier posts, I talked about reprocessing the Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve papers and how that work led me to Fannie Manning Gildersleeve Tonsler, a Black woman from Charlottesville, Virginia, who […]
Entrepreneurial Engineers: Recap of the 2023 ASEE Conference
I recently attended the American Society of Engineering Education conference, held right here in Baltimore. It’s a great opportunity to network and learn, especially with division groups for every type […]
Barbenheimer
If you exist in the online world at all, you have probably taken note of the Barbenheimer phenomenon. Barbenheimer is a portmanteau of the titles of the two blockbuster films, […]
Celebrate! It’s Shark Week!
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – Shark Week! This week we celebrate all things shark where you’ll discover the beauty and mystery of these majestic sea beasts. […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Victoria Popoola on Translating an Untranslated Renaissance Latin Map
Enjoy this post by Victoria Popoola, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. Latin is widely considered to be a niche language. Although many of […]
Meet Our Freshman Fellows: Arusa Malik on Illustrating Women’s Lib
Enjoy this post by Arusa Malik, one of our Special Collections Freshman Fellows for the 2022-2023 academic year. When I began as a Freshman Fellow, I was drawn to the […]