University celebrates founding with Ball
Over 550 members of the Hopkins community gathered at the Engineers Club on Friday to attend the second annual Commemoration Ball, which was held to celebrate the University’s founding.
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Over 550 members of the Hopkins community gathered at the Engineers Club on Friday to attend the second annual Commemoration Ball, which was held to celebrate the University’s founding.
Filmmaker, lawyer and social activist Dawn Porter spoke to students about public defenders and racism in the American criminal justice system as the keynote speaker for the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) Black History Month event series on Tuesday.
A Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering team took home second place and a $10,000 prize in the undergraduate division of the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition for AccuSpine, a probe that assists with spinal fusion surgeries.
To discuss the consequences of the recent decriminalization of marijuana in Maryland, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI) sponsored a panel Tuesday afternoon in the Marjorie Fisher Auditorium in Gilman Hall.
Yangkai “Kane” Li, 20, tragically passed away last Wednesday. A native of Guangzhou, China, Li had just declared a major in physics, was a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Physics Students and was preparing to start research.
Every week in the Mattin Center, students meet in the Caplan Dance Studio for ballet and modern dance classes. These courses include open sessions, as well as advanced classes for company members. They each run for one semester and are non-credit.
Blue Jay Rewards, a program that incentivizes students to attend varsity athletic events, launched on Sept. 3. Students can accumulate JPoints by swiping their J-Cards at designated home games to earn prizes.
Nathan Connolly, an assistant professor of history at Hopkins, launched his new book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, on Sunday at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse.
This weekend marked Hopkins’s 43rd annual Spring Fair, the largest student-run festival in the country. Organized by a team of 45 undergraduates, along with two faculty advisors, the Charles Village tradition featured food trucks, a beer garden, carnival rides, live performances and contests. This year’s theme was Heroes and Villains.
This Saturday, students, alumni, faculty and community members congregated on the President’s Lawn for the annual FIJI Islander.
Hopkins students reacted this week to the occupation of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine by Russian armed forces. Russia seized the region after Ukraine’s Russian-backed president fled the country following a violent crackdown on protesters demanding closer relations with the European Union. With the region now split between a Ukrainian-speaking west tilted towards Europe and a Russian-speaking east, the U.S. fears Moscow is trying reassert influence over parts of the former Soviet Union.
Last semester, members of the Academic Committee of the Student Government Association (SGA) approached the deans of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS) and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) regarding the installation of a Latin honors system at Hopkins.
This Tuesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting focused on two main issues: reactions to an article about Bon Appétit featured in last week’s issue of The News-Letter and an ongoing debate over whether Hopkins should adopt a Latin honors system.
Valentine’s Day was a week-long affair on the Homewood Campus with conversation hearts, condom-grams and romantic Pandora stations ubiquitous. Beginning with a love-themed Sterling Brunch on Sunday and culminating in a second snow day on Friday, the Valentine’s Day activities were a welcome distraction from school for many students.
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This fall has seen the revival of cheerleading at Hopkins. Shortly after arriving on campus, freshmen Courtnie Brown and Tina Kanonuhwa decided to initiate a movement to bring back the Hopkins Cheer Team.
Last Sunday morning, members of the Greek community congregated on Homewood Field for Greek Life’s Powderpuff Football Tailgate. The games — which were hosted by the Office of Greek Life — pitted sororities against each other in several rounds of flag football.
Community members from across the Charles Village neighborhood gathered on the Freshmen Quad of the Homewood Campus to raise money, cans of food and awareness for the feeding of our neighbors last Saturday. The event, titled “Feed Your Neighbor,” was inspired by Governor Martin O’Malley’s initiative to feed the homeless and end child hunger by 2015.