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(2:54) Meredith Kerr of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing talks about her passion for addiction nursing and how she is working to reduce accidental overdoses and educate people about the opioid crisis. Visit rising.jhu.edu/opioid-crisis to learn more.

(1:17) Johns Hopkins University researchers tested the two leading brain training exercises and found one works much better than the other. This game, similar to one used in the research, demonstrates how it works.Video TranscriptGraphics: What's the best way to train your brain? Johns Hopkins University researchers compared two of the most popular brain training exercises. They found one is far more effective than the other. The training requires you to remember the location of objects flashing on the screen (like these blue squares). You also have to remember the letters you hear.Woman's voice: P-V-V-CGraphics: Let's give it a try. Round 1: Remember the second to last location and letter in the sequence.Woman's voice: C-V-P-V-P-CGraphics: Do you remember the second to last letter and location? The answer this time was...Woman's voice: P-P-PGraphics: Each round requires a little more brain power. Round 2: Remember the location and letter that's third from last in the sequence.Woman's voice: V-C-D-C-V-PGraphics: Can you remember the third to last letter and location? The answer this time was...Woman's voice: C-C-C-CGraphics: Researchers found this kind of training constantly updates the brain's working memory. Working memory is like your brain's virtual sticky note. It holds temporary information you need to make decisions. The Johns Hopkins Study shows there's something special about this kind of training. It appears to improve working memory and actually changes the activity in your brain.Woman's voice: P-P-V[Johns Hopkins University logo]Video by: Johns Hopkins Office of Communications video@jhu.edu Producer/Editor: Len Turner

(1:00) The Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories from survivors of rape and abuse. Written, stitched, and painted onto red fabric, stories are displayed in city and town centers to create and demand public space to heal. The quilt resists the popular and narrow narrative of how sexual violence occurs by telling many stories, not one. The quilt builds a new culture where survivors are publicly supported, rather than publicly shamed.TRANSCRIPT[female student] 2012 trauma took over my brain. I never thought I’d be happy again. This little girl wanted to die, fought for months to find out why.This is the Monument Quilt, it is a visible art project made by survivors of sexual assault and gender violence.I love this one because I love the Maya Angelou quote on it. It’s like your past doesn’t define you.So these are my favorite squares. A lot of emotional labor went in to creating these, but if you lift up the quilt square there’s an entire story underneath.[female student] …. I fought for months to find out why. Sexual trauma was the reason why.[Alysse Campbell] The idea is to create a space that is safe for survivors and a place for survivors to publicly heal.All two hundred of these quilts have been immensely moving and I have been brought to tears by many of them.All of the survivors, they’re not alone in this.[uplifting music}

(0:46) Freshmen Biomedical engineering students construct a device to transport a ping-pong 3 meters.Foam Core Project (20%): Your team’s task is to create the most totally awesome ping-pong mover that you can imagine. Groups will be required to construct two different devices to transport a ping-pong ball 3 meters along a horizontal surface. At least one of the devices must roll. One of the presenting students is to be outfitted with a SHARD monitor, to measure heart rate. The "totally awesome" reaction of the viewers of this device will come from a combination of the speed of the device and the skillful, unique and dramatic ways the ping pong ball travels along its 3 meter journey. How enjoyable is your event to watch? The audience may respond to the beauty and poetry, the flawless execution, the hilarity, the unexpected distinctiveness and the daring, of the ways you accomplish this task. How much engineering, care, finesse and attention to details are exhibited in your devices? This also includes appropriate use of materials and color, theme songs and costumes. Foam core projects have a strict 6 hour time limit in lab so pre-planning before you get to the lab is essential! We suggest you make a paper blueprint of your design and put together a paper or cardboard version prior to lab. Students will not be permitted to cut into their foamcore without a detailed sketch and permission from their lab manager. Projects will be presented and judged during a two-minute “elevator pitch”, with the final competition outside in front of Clark Hall (weather permitting). Teams are allowed up to one-half hour of lab time on the morning of the competition to fix their devices. The grading rubric for the presentation and competition is posted on Blackboard, and success requires a combination of creativity, presentation skills, modeling prowess, the ability to predict results, and, of course, device triumph! The foam core project is worth 20% of the total semester grade. The grading will take place in thirds: one-third will be graded by your TA based on the work in your lab notebook, one-third will be judged by the lab managers, course TAs, and Design Team students based on your presentation, and one-third will be the performance of your group and devices at the competition. We understand that there will be some class conflicts during these times and that not every member of the team will be able to attend either the presentation or competition, but we suggest as many participate as possible.

(1:42) For Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon, the path to examining medieval language and literature began in an elective history of English course while an undergraduate. “I was always going to end up somewhere in a library, with books, poking around in the stacks,” he says. A scholar of linguistics and literacy, Cannon is one of the world’s leading experts on the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University this fall.- - - - -TRUTHFlee fro the prees and dwelle with sothfastnesse; Suffyce unto thy thing, though it be smal, For hord hath hate, and climbing tikelnesse, Prees hath envye, and wele blent overal. Savour no more than thee bihove shal, Reule wel thyself that other folk canst rede, And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.Tempest thee noght al croked to redresse In trust of hir that turneth as a bal; Gret reste stant in litel besinesse. Be war therfore to sporne ayeyns an al, Stryve not, as doth the crokke with the wal. Daunte thyself, that dauntest otheres dede, And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.That thee is sent, receyve in buxumnesse; The wrastling for this world axeth a fal. Her is non hoom, her nis but wildernesse: Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beste, out of thy stal! Know thy contree, look up, thank God of al; Hold the heye wey and lat thy gost thee lede, And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.Therfore, thou Vache, leve thyn old wrecchednesse; Unto the world leve now to be a thral. Crye him mercy, that of his hy goodnesse Made thee of noght, and in especial Draw unto him, and pray in general For thee, and eek for other, hevenlich mede; And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.

(1:01) Painting, gardening and beautifying city neighborhoods. These are just a few of the ways more than 1,200 Johns Hopkins University students, faculty and staff will try to help Baltimore on Saturday, Sept. 23, during the ninth annual President's Day of Service, as they volunteer en masse at nearly 40 local non-profit organizations.

(2:38) TRANSCRIPT:Graphic: The Johns Hopkins University[pitch pipe][a capella singer] one, two, three, fourDear Kwame, congratulations on your admission to Johns Hopkins University.I take this letter everywhere I go.[a cappella singers] 🎵Let our knowledge grow for evermore, in our own sweet Baltimore.[female student] The first thing I packed when I came to Hopkins was my trapeze grips. At the spring overnight, I was sitting on the quad with my dad and we saw a bunch of kids doing slacklining. And my dad immediately said to me, oh my gosh, that's just like you. It was a big deciding factor, it really made me feel at home at Hopkins.🎵The truth alone can set you free.I found this blue jay feather right before I came to Hopkins and I found it while I was camping. I thought it was really cool that there were all these Blue Jays there and I was coming to Hopkins and that's our mascot.[Baja car drives by][female student] I knew that if I brought my ukulele I'd find people who, you know like my friends...they'd play it, they'd teach me.[students laugh]And it really encouraged that spirit of exploration and discovery, and it made me want to go out there and try new things.🎵Let this be the beginning, some are laughing, others grinning. All young Blue Jays taking wing.This one is actually...[trails off][Kwame]When I got in to Hopkins I knew I was going to bring my art portfolio. Every different rendering has all these different memories. It was like bringing everyone with me.[Kwame in the background] Twenty different types of...It really just grounds me, it really shows me that I'm going somewhere.[fencing bag rolling past][female student] I do love it here. I'm glad I packed my fencing bag. The men's and women's teams practice together, so there's a close bond. We eat together, we study together in the library, we go to yoga together. It just evolved in to truly my family at Hopkins.🎵Here in the loyal home of the Black and Blue, Gilman's bell begins to sing.[male student] I got this plate a couple of years ago. Actually my dad found it at an antique store. I found this over the summer on Ebay and I thought this was the perfect complement. Now this is a part of my life.🎵We'll be lifelong friends, that much I can tell. 🎵That much I can tell.Graphic: "Dear Johnny" written by Andrew Remley, arranged by Katrina Estep, performed by the Octopodes.Graphic: The Johns Hopkins University

(0:36) Video TranscriptGraphics: Could your identity be at risk? Cyber thieves have stolen the credit info of more than 143 million American consumers.Tony Dahbura/Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute: These kinds of things are happening on a daily basis.Graphics: Information security experts meeting at Johns Hopkins say the breach points to a growing global threatDahbura: The scale of these kinds of breaches just keeps increasing. It also points out the severe vulnerabilities we also have in these kinds of systems. The community is determined to defend against these kinds of breaches but it's a big challenge.Graphics: Johns Hopkins is now challenging its students to become cyber soldiers in a digital war that won't be easy to winVideo by: Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video@jhu.edu Producer/Editor-Len Turner

(2:21) Experience our Baltimore neighborhood that surrounds the Johns Hopkins campus. Hear what students and locals love about Central Baltimore, from the lively restaurant and music scene to the close sense of community.TRANSCRIPT[Indie music, upbeat][jogger panting][female homeowner] Seeing the neighborhood transform is a really beautiful thing.[male artist] This space and this time, it's amazing.[male student] A lot of neat, kind of hip neighborhoods.[female student] As students, we can walk, everything's close by. It's really exciting.Graphic: Thibault, Social EntreprenuerBaltimore is one of the greatest cities on the planet right now. It's an amazing city and Central Baltimore's absolutely the core of that.[bugle sounds off][crowd cheers] [female student] I really like Baltimore. It's really friendly, all the people I've met. Especially with so many colleges in the area, there's always young people around.Graphic: Jessica and Taylor Jade And also fun places to hang out with your friends.[female planner] The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Baltimore, and Maryland Institute College of Art provide places of culture and art and creativity…Graphic: Ashley, Central Baltimore …and want their neighborhoods to grow and thrive.[female homeowner] There's artists and there's musicians and there's so many people who care about the community.Graphic: Ashley, Homeowner & Illustrator I love it so much. So it really makes me happy.Graphic: Karl, Hopkins student There's still kind of a close-knit sense of community but within that, still the richness of, you know, urbanite living. When I bike in to campus it's nice to see people just out and about, sitting outside and just having a good time.[students laughing][male artist] The music scene here is amazing, it's theater, it's comedy,Graphic: Pierre, Artist &gallery owner …it's performance, it's art, and it's all very much unique and happening only in Baltimore.[female student] There are a lot of different neighborhoods and I think there's something for everyone here, whether you're into music or like live entertainment, you're a foodie.Graphic: Lane, restaurateur I think the restaurant scene in Central Baltimore is getting better all the time. It's definitely a place where you can go to get variety and affordable food. And really food that is made by the hand of a small business owner you can really tell.[energetic music][female business owner] It's a really energetic neighborhood but then also to be like central to a city and still have this much green that's all around us...Graphic: Jamyla, business owner …it's awesome.[female student] The neighborhood is really growing, there's Station North, Charles Village, Remington.Come to Remington![female student] Hopkins students are really a part of it because we're here and it's home![music crescendos]

(1:04) After two decades in space, NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended an incredible journey of exploration. With the spacecraft's fuel spent, operators deliberately plunged Cassini into Saturn—which it had orbited for 13 years —to make sure the planet's moons remain pristine for future exploration.A small but significant piece of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, the Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument, or MIMI, went with Cassini on its fiery descent. In the early 1990s, APL partnered with six other institutions to design and build MIMI, which studied the charged particles trapped in Saturn's magnetosphere and also made global images of fast neutral atoms.Video TranscriptRadio Transmission: And liftoff of the Cassini spacecraft on a billion mile trek to Saturn.Graphics: After 13 years orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft plunges to a fiery end.Darrell Strobel/Cassini Interdisciplinary Scientist/Johns Hopkins University: We now know from the Cassini mission we have ocean worlds. The icy satellite Enceladus has a global ocean beneath its icy crust. And Titan, the second largest moon in the solar system, it's the closest thing we have to the early atmosphere of the Earth.Graphic: Saturn's moons could hold the key to potential life. But Cassini has run out of fuel.Strobel: It's something like a meteorite. It's going to burn up, evaporate, and add to Saturn's atmosphere.Cassini will be remembered as one of the most successful space missions ever. (Johns Hopkins Logo)--end--Video by: Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video@jhu.edu Producer/Editor-Deirdre Hammer

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(0:40) Brazil native Americo Amorim is using his online doctoral classes -- through the Johns Hopkins School of Education -- to improve and evaluate the impact of his start-up, Escribo, which develops interactive applications to help Brazilian students learn to read. Visit http://education.jhu.edu to learn more the School of Education.

(0:41) In an effort to engage more underrepresented minorities with the STEM fields, Melissa Garcia, Ed '13 (MS), teaches these topics to Baltimore City Public School students in the primary grades. Visit http://education.jhu.edu to learn more about the Johns Hopkins School of Education.

(6:30) As Johns Hopkins School of Education celebrates a decade and honors a century of scholarship, faculty, students, and alums reflect on its impact through innovative research and programs, leadership, teaching, and community involvement. Visit http://education.jhu.edu to learn more.

(0:47) A climate modeler, Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Anand Gnanadesikan looks at the atmospheric and oceanic circulation of the tropics, including how changes in circulation can affect hurricane formation. Irma “is right now the most extreme Atlantic hurricane on record. Some of the most intense hurricanes ever seen have been seen in the past few years. The predictions are that global warming will reduce the overall number of hurricanes, but increase the most intense hurricanes.”Video Transcript:Newscaster: Irma has made it to category 5.Graphics: Irma is the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic.Graphics: Anand Gnanadesikan, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Climate ScientistGnanadesikan: It is right now the most extreme Atlantic hurricane on record. Some of the most intense hurricanes ever seen have been seen in the last few years.Graphics: Scientists who study climate change are investigating a surprise theory. They think that rising temperatures could lead to much stronger storms, but there may be far fewer of them.Gnanadesikan: The predictions are that global warming will reduce the overall number of hurricanes but increase the most intense hurricanes.Graphics: That could mean more storms like Irma that leave destruction and death in their wake.(Johns Hopkins University logo)Video by: Johns Hopkins Office of Communications video@jhu.edu Producer/Editor - Len Turner

(1:16:42) Freshman Convocation Class of 2021 Johns Hopkins University Wednesday, August 30, 2017

(1:19) Two members of Johns Hopkins University's Class of 2021 decorate their room on Move-In Day.Music: "In Fielder" by Miró Belle is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. This audio has been transformed under the same license.http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Miro_Belle/Kiss_This_Vol_0/01_Mir_Belle_-_In_Fielder

(2:16:00) JHU Carey Business School - Captured Live on Ustream at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/WgfzjRGgLUX

(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.