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(1:37) Last summer, the university introduced benefits to help new moms and dads balance their professional lives with the needs of their growing families. Parents can now receive four weeks of leave at full pay after their child is born or placed through adoption, and employees who give birth get an additional six weeks of paid birth recovery.Over the past year, 558 full- and part-time employees have taken advantage of those new benefits-169 who were granted parental leave and 389 who were granted both parental leave and birth recovery leave.Video Transcript[Music: "Happy Birthday to You"] This is Heath. He was born 4-1/2 months ago. This is Alice and she was born May 11th. This is Percy. He's our first child. [Music: "Happy Birthday to You"] [Inspirational music] To celebrate the first birthday of our parental leave policy, We invited some of Johns Hopkins newest moms and dads to a photo shoot. We asked them how paid parental leave made a difference for their growing families. It was like, oh my gosh, answered prayer. I was so excited and that extra time really worked out for us. We are really grateful for that. [Inspirational music] All parents get four weeks of paid leave. Birth parents get an additional six weeks of paid time off. From the day he was born it was wonderful. It definitely helped with getting some time to form a connection with him. It gave me some relief to know that I'd be able to spend the time I needed to with him at home. It's allowed us time to bond and truly get to know each other, just to have that time together that you can't get back. Photographer singing: "Everybody smile and wave!" [Parents giggling] In its first year, 558 families, from across the university, used the paid parental leave benefit. [Inspirational music] It makes for happier, healthier families and down the road happier employees and all those things. [Inspirational music]Video by: Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video@jhu.eduProducer/Editor-Len Turner Photographer- Dave Schmelick

(1:32) In a laboratory at Johns Hopkins, biomedical engineer Luke Osborn is giving a sense of touch and pain back to amputees. His solution, an electronic "skin" called an e-dermis, provides vital sensory information that could protect the prosthetic--and the wearer. Credit: Science Robotics/AAAS

(1:06) On Thursday people had an opportunity to check out “portals” that Johns Hopkins University is using in several ways to tackle national and global issues. The portals, which are tricked out shipping containers equipped with high-tech audiovisual technology, allow people in different parts of the world to interact, with full-body views of one another, as if they are in the same room together. At Johns Hopkins, one program uses them to connect students in Baltimore with peers in Gaza City and Beirut to work together to develop tools that could help first responders in refugee camps. Another program uses the portals to collect data on police and community relations across the United States. Globally, these portals have connected more than 150,000 for dialog, concerts and classes. Their founder is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The university’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute, founded last year with the goal of harnessing cutting-edge research to improve civic discourse, is sponsoring the experience.

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(3:55:13) Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement Ceremony May 24, 2018 Royal Farms Arena Commencement Speaker: Bryan StevensonLink to Commencement Program PDF: https://commencement.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-PROGRAM-BOOKLET-FINAL.pdfMore information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/More coverage of Johns Hopkins Commencement Week: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(1:36) Highlights from the Johns Hopkins University 2018 Commencement ceremonies.Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement Ceremony May 24, 2018 Royal Farms Arena Commencement Speaker: Bryan StevensonLink to Commencement Program PDF: https://commencement.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-PROGRAM-BOOKLET-FINAL.pdfMore information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/More coverage of Johns Hopkins Commencement Week: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(24:51) Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement Ceremony May 24, 2018 Royal Farms Arena Commencement Speaker: Bryan StevensonLink to Commencement Program PDF: https://commencement.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-PROGRAM-BOOKLET-FINAL.pdfMore information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/More coverage of Johns Hopkins Commencement Week: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(3:44) Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement Ceremony May 24, 2018 Royal Farms Arena Commencement Speaker: Bryan StevensonLink to Commencement Program PDF: https://commencement.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-PROGRAM-BOOKLET-FINAL.pdfMore information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/More coverage of Johns Hopkins Commencement Week: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(12:40) Johns Hopkins Universitywide Commencement Ceremony May 24, 2018 Royal Farms Arena Commencement Speaker: Bryan StevensonLink to Commencement Program PDF: https://commencement.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/2018-PROGRAM-BOOKLET-FINAL.pdfMore information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/More coverage of Johns Hopkins Commencement Week: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(2:20) For more Johns Hopkins University Commencement 2018 coverage, visit: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(2:06:51) Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Masters Degree Ceremony May 23, 2018 Royal Farms ArenaMore information at: https://commencement.jhu.edu/More Commencement Week coverage on the Hub: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/05/24/commencement-2018-main/

(1:34) Seventy-five volunteers from Johns Hopkins, Bloomberg LP, Bikemore, and the community gathered May 5th to assemble 130 bikes to give to local youth. The four-hour event — part of Johns Hopkins in Action 2018 — took place at the Under Armour House at Fayette operated by Living Classrooms. Bloomberg Distinguished Professors and Bloomberg Scholars, as well as Goldman Sachs 10KSB participants, were among the volunteers. Visit rising.jhu.edu/johns-hopkins-in-action-2018 to learn more.

(1:30:45) JHU Homewood Schools Doctoral Hooding Ceremony Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering May 22, 2018

(3:11:50) JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health Graduation May 22, 2018 Royal Farms Arena

(1:18) Join us on Friday, May 18, 2018 for ONEHopkins, our annual day of giving. Help us reach our goal of 1,000 donors, and see the difference that one day can make! Visit Givingday.jhu.edu to learn more.

(1:33) Johns Hopkins University researchers have developed a way to study the brain of a bat as it flies, recording for the first time what happens as an animal focuses its attention.This groundbreaking advance allows us to see what happens in the brains of naturally-behaving animals, uninhibited by laboratory constraints. Because bats share the same brain structure as all mammals, including humans, the achievement, published this week in the journal eLife, deepens our understanding of what happens in the brain as we move through the world.

(0:50) Proudly introducing the Johns Hopkins 2018 Commencement speaker, attorney, activist and civil rights champion Bryan A. Stevenson.Video Transcript[dramatic music]Bryan Stevenson: Hope is your superpower. Hope is what allows you to stand up when other people say sit down.Graphic: Bryan A. StevensonNewscaster: Bryan Stevenson found his calling defending the poor and least powerful among us.Graphic: His calling… racial justice, children in prison, mass incarceration, death penaltyNewscaster2: Bryan Stevenson is a public interest lawyer and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.Newscaster3: His organization has helped spare the lives of more than 115 wrongly condemned death row prisoners.Stephen Colbert: Please welcome, Bryan Stevenson!Graphic: His work will move you. His message will inspire you. Your 2018 Commencement speaker Bryan A. StevensonBryan Stevenson: We're trying to confront bias and discrimination. I want the class of 2018 to stay hopeful. We change the world, not with the ideas in our mind, but when we allow the ideas in our mind to be fueled by the conviction heart.Graphic: #jhu2018--end of transcript--Video by: Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video@jhu.edu

(0:53) Johns Hopkins freshmen gather at the First-Year Banquet to converse with faculty and celebrate their college experiences thus far. The dinner is sponsored by the Hopkins Parents Fund which is dedicated to enriching the Homewood student experience.

(0:45) Researchers at Johns Hopkins University say most participants in a study couldn't pick out the correct form of lowercase g, a letter shape most of us have seen millions of times. Play this game to find out if you can spot the right g. See the full video story at https://youtu.be/iSNGaJ0KiEs.Video Transcript[upbeat music] Graphics: It's part of the alp[habet you've seen millions of times. But do you really remember how it looks? Johns Hopkins researchers found out a lot of people don't. So go ahead, pick the right form of the letter g. 1.g 2.g 3.g 4.g Let's see those one more time (four letter g grid) Ready for the answer? The devil's in the g-tails! [Johns Hopkins logo]Video by: Len Turner Johns Hopkins Office of Communications video@jhu.edu

(1:55) Can we see something millions of times and still not remember what it looks like? Cognitive researchers at Johns Hopkins University say the answer is "yes" and use the letter "g" to demonstrate.Video Transcript[whimsical music] So many people have the same reaction. Student: Wait. Am I crazy? They have no idea what we're talking about. Graphic: Johns Hopkins researchers make a surprising discovery... I need you to tell me which one is the right one. Take your time. Graphic: about a letter most of us have seen millions of times. Which one is the real letter? Graphic: In books and online. Michael McCloskey: I think we all if we've been to school, think that we know our ABC's. We think if I asked you about a letter you would know what it looked like But many people don't seem to be aware of a very very common form of the letter g. It's a letter shape that people see all the time millions and millions of times throughout their life and yet many people are unaware that it exists. Graphic: All research participants remembered the shape they learned to write in school (g). But just a few could describe the one they constantly see in print. Have you ever written this g before? No. And even when they are aware it exists they are unable to recall the exact shape. I think we only had one participant out of all of our participants who even wrote it close to correct. And this is my attempt... Many researchers are thinking now that learning to write plays an important role in learning to read. People are writing less and less in our culture nowadays. This kind of gives us an intriguing way of looking at some of those questions. The main thing this makes us question is the notion that if you see something enough times you know it. There are things that we see in everyday life all the time but somehow don't possess enough knowledge of it to access it consistently. This is the g you attempted to write. That's the g I was trying to do. The devil's in the g-tails! [Johns Hopkins logo]Video by: Len Turner and Dave Schmelick Johns Hopkins University Office of Communications video @jhu.edu