Hopkins to participate in Campus Kitchens Project
Starting March 28, Hopkins will become a participant in the Campus Kitchens Project (CKP), a national organization, and will begin donating unused food from the Fresh Food Café (FFC) to homeless shelters and other organizations in the Baltimore area. CKP, founded in 2001, is a growing non-profit movement at colleges across the country to make dining halls more sustainable and to tackle food security by donating leftover food that would otherwise be thrown away. Post a comment |
Alumni Association increases efforts as economy faltersHopkins institutes new student-alumni programAs the economic crisis draws on, its impact on alumni giving is still foggy. Fritz Schroeder, senior associate vice president of Development and Alumni Relations, expects the economic crisis to affect alumni giving, though he says it is still too early to judge how serious it will be. Post a comment |
Robert Kagan speaks on political theory
The first thing that Robert Kagan, last night's Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) speaker, did after thanking the audience was to acknowledge the challenges facing the United States and the world today. "I want to talk about the world that Barack Obama has inherited," he said. Post a comment |
Grads face troubling employment ratesStudents graduating from college this year may find obtaining employment in an oversaturated job market to be extremely difficult. Companies that responded to a 2009 National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Job Outlook survey expect to hire 22 percent fewer college graduates from this year's graduating class than in 2008. 1 Comment |
Things I've Learned with Leonardo Lisi, lecturer and Ibsen scholarLeonardo Lisi is a Mellon Post Doctoral Fellow and currently teaches a Humanities Center class, "The Sense of Loss, 1900-1927." News-Letter (N-L): Starting at the beginning, where were you born, and where did you grow up? Leonardo Lisi (LL): Well, my parents are from Argentina, but they left during the dictatorship. Post a comment |
Wayne Smith writes to Supreme Court in defense of convicted Cuban spiesCuba specialist Prof. Smith, along with U.N. and 10 Noble laureates, submits amicus curiae in support of retrial for "Cuban Five""I have felt all along that this was a shameful blot on the record of U.S. justice," Wayne Smith, Hopkins political science professor and former chief of the U.S. Interest Section in Cuba, said. Smith, who has been teaching in between the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Homewood campus since 1984, has submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in defense of five Cuban nationals convicted of spying for the Castro regime in 2001. Post a comment |
Other College NewsSouth Carolina student charged with gun possession A student at a South Carolina technical college was arrested last week after a gun went off in his pocket. The 19-year-old student originally claimed that the gun fell out of his pocket. Investigators later determined that he had the gun in his pocket and was aiming to shoot. Post a comment |
Let your mind take control in the sackGet PierceDSex is the blend of the emotional and the physical. You can add in the intellectual, say, by reading this column, and the spiritual by, say, tantra, and you got a well-rounded sex self. I should come clean by saying that I take the connections among these things to a greater degree than most, even others in sexual literature, but I dirty myself again by assuring you that everything listed below is agreed upon (and proven) by even light dabblers. Post a comment |
Little dishes pack a big punch at Tapas TeatroAs the weather turns warm, head down the street and enjoy Spanish Cuisine al fresco on the N. Charles sidewalkIf you take a walk down N. Charles Street from Penn Station on a Saturday night, you will find a bustling restaurant, Tapas Teatro, that spills over onto the sidewalk, with multiple open doors leading out to an outdoor seating area. Club music pipes out from the somewhat dimly lit interior, while waitresses move in and out, carrying elegantly crafted tapas dishes. Post a comment |
Designers transform magazine ads into artThe Brick RunwayA surefire way for a fashion magazine to make money is through the sale of advertisement space. Fashion magazines, while providing copious amounts of joy, are also businesses. Even the less commercial glossies need to finance their printing. Enter, advertisers. 1 Comment |
School of Education sees growth in popularityIn light of the recent economic changes, the field of education and more specifically the Hopkins School of Education has grown in popularity as a career option. According to Ralph Fessler, the dean of the School of Education, the school has recently experienced roughly a 30 percent increase in applications, something he said is common during a recession where layoffs are more abrupt and frequent. 2 Comments |
Making the grade: Hopkins Hospital to increase pharmaceutical disclosure
After receiving a "D" on last year's PharmFree Scorecard, a measure of conflict of interest policies at academic medical centers, the Hopkins Hospital has been preparing to implement tougher policies that would eliminate industry handouts. The Scorecard, issued annually by the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) analyzes several factors of teaching hospital conflict of interest policy, including the extent to which institutions disclose gifts received from pharmaceutical companies and industry relationships. Post a comment |