Wendland appointed KSAS dean
University President Ronald J. Daniels named Beverly Wendland as the James B. Knapp dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS), effective immediately.
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University President Ronald J. Daniels named Beverly Wendland as the James B. Knapp dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS), effective immediately.
Hopkins’s Office of Facilities and Real Estate is progressing in the development of “3200 St. Paul,” a student housing and retail building project to be constructed on the former Olmsted Lot at the corner of 33rd and St. Paul Streets.
Senior Peter Kalugin was selected as one of only 32 American college students to receive a Rhodes Scholarship, which he will use to earn a Masters degree in oncology at the University of Oxford in England starting in the fall of 2015.
In response to the University’s moratorium on all social events in Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) fraternity houses last week, which was lifted after the administration and the IFC created an “implementation plan” to ensure safety at future parties, many students have expressed concern over the administration’s perceived lack of transparency and over the decision to act without consulting students. Additional points of contention include the moratorium’s limitation to just IFC fraternities and its extension to fraternities with clean disciplinary records.
U.S. News and World Report ranked Hopkins 11th among 496 global universities for 2015. This is the first year the publication has ranked universities from different nations on the same list.
A controversial “JHU Disorientation Guide” was anonymously released online on Wednesday, sparking an uproar on social media among undergraduate students.
The Center for Advanced Media Studies; the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Political Science Department collaborated to host “Politics, Family and Precarity Cinema in Winter’s Bone” in Mergenthaler Hall on Friday.
The Student Government Association (SGA) met Tuesday evening to vote on the funding bill for the Big Blue Jay Tailgate, co-sponsored by the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (Beta). SGA also faces a Judiciary case filed against it by several Advocacy and Awareness groups.
After a 50-year teaching career including 39 years at Hopkins, Dr. Bruce Barnett, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will retire at the end of 2014.
President Ronald J. Daniels announced via email that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has officially launched an investigation into the University’s response to incidents of alleged sexual assault and a possible Clery Act violation.
A student demonstration was held on the Breezeway on Friday at 12 p.m. to protest the University’s lack of transparency regarding sexual assault complaints. An article published by The Huffington Post on Thursday spurred senior Mats Dreyer to organize the protest.
The Spring Open House and Overnight Program (SOHOP), presented by the Hopkins Hosting Society, returned this spring drawing nearly 1,000 accepted students to visit campus. SOHOP gives potential incoming freshmen a glimpse of undergraduate life at Hopkins and enlists current undergraduates to act as their overnight hosts. This year Hopkins held two overnight sessions, one from April 9-10 and another last night.
Between 300 and 400 students gathered on the Beach from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday in celebration of Hopkins Holi. The Hindu Students’ Council (HSC) and the Association for India’s Development (AID) organized the event commemorating the Hindu festival of Holi.
Hundreds of students gathered in Shriver Hall on Tuesday night for this year’s Presidential Event, a debate between General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, and David Cole, Georgetown professor of constitutional law. The debate was presented by the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) and moderated by Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News Major Garrett.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Genetics and Director of the JHMI Microarray Core Facility Forrest Spencer is teaching a class at Homewood this semester as a part of the Gateway Sciences Initiative. The class, which is specifically designed for freshmen, is titled “Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution.” This is the second year the class has been offered.
Matthew Green, assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, is making waves for leading the team in the computer science department that created Zerocoin, a digital currency meant as an extension of Bitcoin. He presented the product at the 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif.
Robyn Rodriguez, an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis, gave a seminar on Wednesday night as part of a series of talks in the Sociology Department this year. She spoke to an audience of about 20 people in Mergenthaler Hall on her 2010 book, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World.”
Editor’s Note: The names Abe, Beth and Carol have been used in place of employees’ real names. These employees have asked to remain anonymous out of fear for losing their jobs.
Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a rumored 2016 presidential candidate, spoke to an audience in Shriver Hall on Wednesday evening as the first speaker of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). The speech was followed by both a question and answer session and a reception in the Clipper Room hosted by the Hopkins College Democrats.