Hopkins Retrospective

09/03/2026

We can’t wait to get this on our shelf! What era of Hopkins are you looking forward to diving into?

Historian Andrew Jewett, author of 'Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years,' discusses how the university has changed since its founding and what lessons it should take into the future

09/01/2026

We can't wait to see the transformation. 😍

08/25/2026

Welcome Class of 2030! Meet the class of 1990 during their first year at Hopkins in 1986.

Photos: Students arrive to move into the resident halls (Hullabaloo 1987); A housemaster helps students at AMR II for the freshman check-in board where they get messages from advisors, and new students’ arrivals are confirmed (Stephen M. Hewitt, Hullabaloo 1987); Adams hall first-year students pose with stuffed animals and dolls (Hullabaloo 1987); Two student residents of Wood 125 photographed in their room (Joe Chen, Hullabaloo 1987); Rogers Hall first-year students take a photo on the building’s fire escape (Hullabaloo 1987); Yearbook notes that the student on the left, a native Baltimorean, is giving her friend from NJ “an insider’s view of Charm City” (Mark Bateman, Hullabaloo 1987).

08/13/2026

Introducing our newest Hugh Hawkins Fellows! 📜✨

Hugh Hawkins Research Fellowships are awarded annually to JHU undergraduate or graduate students who wish to research the university’s history. Four fellows were selected to be provided support on their research.

Shaan Bhandarkar, School of Medicine, ’28, Medicine, Neurosurgery, “Beyond Deficit: The Hardy Clinic and the Professionalization of Rehabilitation”

Grace Kim, School of Medicine, ’28, Medicine, “The Intersection of Early Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns and Surgical Practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1900–1940”

Honora Muratori, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, ’29, History, Political Science, German, “The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab: A Global University and National Lab?”

Myra Saeed, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, ’28, Chemistry, History, “Progress and its Price: Visually Mapping the University’s Property Acquisitions and Community Responses in Homewood Museum"

Visit our Hugh Hawkins Fellowship page for more information on the fellowship and our past fellows’ research. Link in the comments.

Photos: Headshots of our Hugh Hawkins Fellows for the 2026 – 2027 school year.

07/30/2026

297 is looking good on you, Baltimore. ✨

Even though half the age of the city it resides in, Johns Hopkins University has deep roots in it. Its original campus was seated in the Mount Vernon neighborhood. From its founding in 1876 until 1924, Hopkins owned buildings down the street from the then independent Peabody Conservatory. Actually, students at Hopkins used the proximity to Peabody to take advantage of its library as the university got its footing. All original buildings and land were sold once the university settled on its Homewood campus.

Images: Aerial view of Johns Hopkins University's original campus, note Peabody Conservatory in the top right, 1920; Interior view of Chemica Laboratory on Johns Hopkins University's original campus with students, 1900; A drawing of an exterior view of Biological Laboratory on Johns Hopkins University's original campus, 1885; View of Baltimore City, 1850.

06/22/2026

Are you ready for the dog days of summer?

Photos: Students play with their dogs on the Beach and campus quads, 1992.

06/17/2026

Here’s a little backstory on our favorite bird, Jay, for National Mascot Day. 💙

Images: A series of graphics describing the timeline of how the blue jay mascot for Johns Hopkins University came to be.

All images come from the Ferdinand Hamburger University Archives, Johns Hopkins University; Will Kirk and other university photographers; The Hub.

05/21/2026

From the 50th to the 150th, congratulations Class of 2026!

In the pages of the 1926 Hullabaloo, a student-run yearbook from 1889 to 2015, a student from the class of 1926 reflected on their time at Hopkins and the many changes that occurred at the university and amongst themselves. The student laments, “But what did we do as a class in those four long and variegated periods of time?”.

What do you hope students 50 or 100 years from now know your class for? What are some of your favorite memories? Let us know in the comments!

Photos: The Class of 1926, Senior Class, in the Hullabaloo; The Class of 2026 poses for their first photo together as first-year students in 2022

05/18/2026

05/06/2026

Congratulations to our Hugh Hawkins Fellows for presenting their research! And thank you to all of the archivist and faculty mentors, family, and friends who supported them.

Suzanka Belik (Peabody, ’26) presented “An Evolving Planet: The Peabody Institute Under Climate Change” that explored how artists at the conservatory have intertwined music and environmentalism.

Yemok Jeon (SoM, ’28) presented “Fragile ‘Heroes’ Under Benevolent Control: U.S. Aid, Heroic Narratives, and the Silencing of Korean Student Doctors at Johns Hopkins, 1945-1950s”. His research touches on the experiences of three Korean students who would become trained physicians in their home country and how they were often treated with a paternalistic attitude by peers and institutional leaders.

Darrell “Riley” Stait (KSAS, ’28) presented “Web of Women: Characterizing the Realities of Homewood’s Women Through Poetry” where he performed several poems from the perspective of Harriet Chew Carroll who navigated an abusive marriage and wrestled with motherhood.

Sandy Peeples, (KSAS, ’27) presented “From Studying Africa to African Students: Tanganyika/Tanzania at Johns Hopkins 1940-1980”. She focused on her archival research on SAIS and its relationship with U.S. federal government agencies, and how these relationships influenced and directly impacted east Africa.

Tony Ye (KSAS, ’27) was not able to present, but did his research this year on “Learning Across Borders: The Hopkins-Nanjing Center and Its Role in China’s Reform and Opening Era”.

We’re proud of all they have done, and we can’t wait to see what they do next!

Photos: From left to right, fellows Suzanka Belik, Yemok Jeon, Darrel “Riley” Strait, Sandy Peeples, and Hopkins Retrospective Program Manager Allison Seyler.