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(4:50) Angela Guarda, MD, the Stephen and Jean Robinson Associate Professor, helps patients break the cycle of driven behavior and sets the standard of intensive care for anorexia and other eating disorders. Visit rising.jhu.edu/anorexia-treatment to learn more.

(1:40) Jeremy Sugarman – deputy director for medicine of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and the Harvey "Bud" M. Meyerhoff Professor of Bioethics and Medicine – takes on ethical challenges from HIV prevention to organ transplants. Visit https://rising.jhu.edu/Meyerhoff-professor to learn more.

(1:33) Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels meets with a group of expectant and adoptive parents to announce extensive new paid parental leave benefits for full and part-time employees.Video Transcript[lighthearted music]Woman’s voice: We’re going to a baby shower![lighthearted music continues]Ronald J. Daniels/Johns Hopkins University President: The purpose of this baby shower is to share the great news with several of our expectant parents.We will commencing July 1, 2017 be offering fully paid parental and birth recovery leave and expanded adoption benefits to you all.Man’s voice: Hooray![applause]Daniels: All new parents—mothers, fathers, adoptive parents and surrogate parents will receive four full weeks of fully paid parental leave.New mothers who give birth will be given an additional six weeks.Vernita Mouzon/Expectant Mother: My due date is October the tenth and it’s really really exciting.It is life changing for me.Vijitha Lahanda Awdu/Expectant Mother: This is my first child, so having 10 weeks off with pay is a great amazing thing for me.Melissa Lopez/Expectant Mom: I think it’s a really great opportunity to spend that time with your child and really grow and learn, get to know them and not have to worry about that at all.Daniels: We have also tripled our benefit for employees who are adopting a child from $5,000 to $15,000.Greg Burks/Planning to Adopt: The cost of adoption is almost insurmountable. We’ve had to save for about eight years. We’re just truly thankful for this opportunity and this benefit.[laughter]Woman: At Hopkins…Daniels: Our employees are family and we felt veery strongly that we could be helpful in embarking on life’s greatest journey.[lighthearted music]Video By: Johns Hopkins Office of Communications video@jhu.edu Producer/Editor-Len Turner Photographers- Dave Schmelick

(3:35) Irv Litofsky, A&S '73, has played in the Johns Hopkins Pep Band since he was a freshman 48 years ago. A new endowment in his name honors his school spirit and promotes attendance and involvement at Hopkins sports events. Visit www.rising.edu/pepband to learn more.

(3:56) As the Gompf Family Chair and a computational and theoretical chemist, Rigoberto Hernandez explains how his team develops models and frameworks and uses theoretical techniques and algorithms to simulate chemical reactions. This basic science could apply to health issues like Alzheimer's Disease and environmental questions like how to best create sustainable, clean energy. Visit rising.jhu.edu/chemistry-Gompf-chair to learn more.

(1:15) When trying to be heard over noise, humans and other animals raise their voices. It’s a split-second feat, from ear to brain to vocalization, and Johns Hopkins University researchers are the first to measure just how fast it happens in bats.

(2:05) Johns Hopkins Medicine volunteer leaders and supporters take a bench-to-bedside, behind-the-scenes tour of the Department of Neurology, learning about the latest in stroke diagnosis and recovery. From a hands-on experience with rehabilitative equipment to speaking directly to patients, Trustee Francis X. Knott says about these Live the Mission tours, "It's an opportunity lost if you don't do it." To learn more about Hopkins Neurology visit http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery.

(3:53:47) Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement 2017 Royal Farms Arena May 24, 2017

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(3:33) Class President, Syed Hossain, speaks at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday May 24.Video by: Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video@jhu.edu

(11:40) President Ronald J. Daniels speaks at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday May 24.

(12:17) Journalist Frank Bruni, whose 22-year career at The New York Times has included stints as White House correspondent, restaurant critic and now columnist, speaks at the Johns Hopkins University’s commencement ceremony on Wednesday May 24.Video by: Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video@jhu.edu

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(3:21) An award-winning journalist, a trailblazing university president, the nation's top librarian, an inspiration for the movie Hidden Figures, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, and a Johns Hopkins alumnus whose generous philanthropy has had an indelible impact on the lives of JHU students, received Johns Hopkins University honorary degrees this year.Video TranscriptHonorary Degrees 2017 Video ScriptGraduate: Today we are proud to honor six men and women. They’re work and dedication have changed our world for the better.Graduate: Best-selling author, journalist and this year’s Commencement speaker, Frank Bruni. He’s a critically acclaimed op-ed columnist for one of the world’s most respected newspapers. He’s written three New York Times best-selling books.Frank Bruni: I just hope in whatever small way I can I’m getting people to think about matters of the common good and about what’s true for all of us not just necessarily what’s good for some of us.Graduate: Frank Bruni’s work shines a light on facts. And it embodies our own Johns Hopkins motto the truth shall set you free.”Graduate: Mathematician and space pioneer, Katherine Johnson.TV Announcer: An American hero, Katheirne Johnson!Graduate: The world knows Katherine Johnson for her mastery of math. Her complex calculations helped launch America into space—a giant leap in the era of segregation.Voice of Katherine Johnson: I was always around people who were learning something. You learn if you want to, so you’ve got to want to learn.Graduate: America’s 14th Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. She is the first woman and first African-American to stand watch over the world’s largest library. Carla Hayden has devoted her career to bringing public libraries into the digital age.Carla Hayden: Today all of us are inundated with information overload and I am working to make sure that we present information as accurately and as authoritatively as we can.Graduate: Scholar, educator and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann. She’s one of the nation’s most respected university leaders. Amy Gutmann places a premium on education’s’ role in our democracy. She’s worked tirelessly to make higher education and healthcare accessible for everyone.Amy Gutmann: I fervently hope that the work I do can open doors to more affordable high quality education and health care for everybody.Graduate: Nobel Prize-winning researcher Harold Varmus.Harold Varmus: I’ve been privileged to be a part of remarkable increases in our understanding of how cancer arises.Graduate: He’s a leader in the fight against cancer and the former director of the National Institutes of Health. In 1989, he and a colleague won the Nobel prize for Medicine. He’s been a staunch advocate for young investigators.Harold Varmus: I strongly believe in the idea that we can further improve the human condition. I’m dedicated to that.Graduate: Entrepreneur, alumnus and Blue Jay booster, Ralph O’Connor. He’s a proud member of the Hopkins Class of 1951. You recognize his name from the rec center that’s become a centerpiece of Homewood campus life.Ralph O’Connor: On that shelf is all blue jays…Over the past five decades, he’s also given us the gift of public art, plus professorships, scholarships and support that encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.Ralph O’Connor: Be happy. Give back. Keep learning. Keep thinking and have some fun. But be true to yourself is the main thing I think you should be.Graduate: We salute you all and thank you for showing us how determination, leadership and a dedication to others makes our world a better place.[Johns Hopkins University logo]Video by: Johns Hopkins Office of Communications video@jhu.edu Producer/Editor: Len Turner Phototgrapher: Dave Schmelick

(2:23) Ghana native and Davis Family Foundation Scholar Derick Ansah talks about his volunteering with veterans, his studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and his future plans to give back. Visit rising.jhu.edu/volunteering-with-veterans to learn more.

(1:44) The Johns Hopkins University Intercultural Greek Council hosted the Spring 2017 Back to School Block Show on Monday, Feb. 6, 2017. The following video features JHU’s National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternity and sorority members from Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc; Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc; and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.

(44:47) Johns Hopkins Presents went live inside the restaurant of PekoPeko Ramen in Baltimore, owned by alumnus David Forster and co-operated by fellow alumnus Andrew Towson. PekoPeko opened in February 2017 in the Charles Village, a block away from the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus. Student host Jessica Moog walked us through PekoPeko's kitchen and interviewed David on how to make ramen.

(25:04) This annual year-end event united all of Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering departments for one day of presentations for the first time -- and Johns Hopkins Presents was there to interview the students live. This episode aired live on Facebook on May 9, 2017.To learn more about our Engineering Design Day, read our Hub article: https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/05/08/design-day-challenges-students-to-perfect-their-pitch/Johns Hopkins Presents student host: Jessica Moog (Class of 2017)

(1:21:09) JHU Race in America: Carl Hart - Drug Policy is Race PolicyCarl Hart, driven by his scientific research on the effects of drugs on the brain, believes that drug policy in the United States is used to perpetuate racial discrimination.Hart, chair of the Department of Psychology at Columbia University, has published nearly 100 scientific articles in the area of neuropsychopharmacology. He is co-author of the textbook Drugs, Society and Human Behavior with Charles Ksir, and his most recent book—High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society—was the 2014 winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.

(3:41) Increasing prevalence of digital hacks, breaches, and theft reduces not only our personal safety and privacy, but also our trust in businesses, social institutions, our own government, and those of other countries. Hundreds from the Johns Hopkins community gathered in Boston to discuss these threats and potential solutions and to hear an update on the Rising to the Challenge campaign. Visit https://rising.jhu.edu/boston-cybersecurity to learn more.