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(02/27/14 3:35pm)
This past Monday saw the revival of the Hopkins Commemoration Ball. The event, which hasn’t taken place since 2001, commemorates the school’s founding and the swearing in of the University’s first president, Daniel Coit Gilman.
(09/19/13 5:28pm)
Pulitzer Prize winner Linda Greenhouse was the headliner for a lecture on Tuesday evening in Hodson Hall. Her talk, entitled “Who Owns the Constitution?” was delivered as part of the University’s ninth annual Constitutional Forum, which has been held every year since 2005 in honor of Constitution Day. The event was sponsored by the department of political science and the Office of Student Life.
(09/12/13 3:49pm)
She’s the First, a nationwide organization with more than 40 chapters at college and high school campuses, will found a chapter at Hopkins this semester. Originally formed in Nov. 2009, the organization is based in New York City; it works to sponsor girls’ education in developing countries with the hope that they will become the first in their families to graduate secondary school.
(02/07/13 5:36pm)
Rabbi Dr. David I. Bernstein, Dean of the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in New York, gave a talk yesterday at the Smokler Center for Jewish Life. He discussed a broad range of topics related to the recent elections held in Israel on Jan. 22.
(11/29/12 8:32pm)
In the past three years, the Hopkins Center for Language Education (CLE) has cut back or altogether discontinued its curriculum in several languages , citing low enrollment rates and financial constraints. Currently,, the CLE oversees the University’s courses in Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Russian; it canceled programs in Farsi and Kiswahili last year.
(11/15/12 7:33pm)
Jimmy Wales, famed Internet entrepreneur and founder of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, spoke last night at Shriver Hall in the last of the Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium events. The event was very heavily attended, drawing a crowd of between six and seven hundred people.
(11/08/12 7:16pm)
Jeffrey Toobin, legal analyst for CNN and staff writer for The New Yorker, spoke last night at the fifth event of the 2012 Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium, providing insight into the presidential election whose polls had closed just 24 hours earlier. The event, which drew a crowd of approximately 200 people to the Glass Pavilion, was rescheduled from Oct. 30 after Hurricane Sandy postponed the event.
(10/25/12 7:03pm)
The Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure Program (SHIP) held an event last night to address possible ways to improve Hopkins.The Future of Hopkins Symposium event was held in order to bring together students and faculty with the goal of collaborating and hearing their ideas about how to build a more sustainable Hopkins.
(10/04/12 11:40pm)
Hopkins sophomore Jamasen Rodriguez is well on his way to becoming the next big name in chocolate with his company, Jama Cocoa. Rodriguez founded the company in June 2011 and was soon joined by fellow classmates David Aaron White, Demilade Obayomi, Davik Orith and Shreyash Milak in the endeavor of making hand crafted chocolate truffles.
(09/28/12 1:08am)
Surveys conducted by the Hopkins Career Center concerning how Hopkins graduates are faring in today’s jobs market show that 41 percent of the graduating class of 2011 found full time employment six months after graduating. Another 37 percent went on to graduate school or professional school. Of the remaining respondents, 9 percent had found part-time employment or were involved in unpaid volunteer work. This left 7 percent actively looking for work and 6 percent actively applying to graduate programs.
(09/20/12 10:16pm)
Adam Riess, the Hopkins professor who won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, was awarded the Phi Delta Theta Distinguished Alumnus Award at a dinner held in his honor at the Space Telescope Science Institute last night.