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As the ongoing U.S.-Israel war against Iran approaches its one-month mark, students have vocalized global repercussions and personal concerns, with many calling for the University administration to take accountability in its connections and efforts towards student support.
As medical students, we often witness the devastating effects of a broken health care system on our patients. Recently, one of us was caring for a young patient on Medicaid in the hospital who had been suffering from debilitating pain for over a year. For months, she struggled to identify in-network providers, bouncing from waitlist to waitlist for various specialists, growing increasingly frustrated by her inability to get appropriate care. When she was often referred to a new doctor or ordered a new diagnostic test, her Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) would inform her that the doctor was out-of-network or that the test was not covered, delaying her diagnosis and prolonging her suffering. She was ultimately diagnosed with cancer and required surgery for treatment. While she was thankfully able to receive this life-saving care, the impediments from her Medicaid MCO prolonged her pain, incurred significant health care costs and could have allowed her cancer to spread, necessitating extensive treatment and risking possible death.
What is the common thread between engineering, public health and global affairs? Ask Ryan Alezz, a 2025 graduate from the University's Whiting School of Engineering, who was named a 2026 Schwarzman Scholar. Through this fellowship, he will travel to China for a year-long, fully funded master's in global affairs at Tsinghua University. In an interview with The News-Letter, Alezz looked back on his time at Hopkins, reflecting on how it culminated in his selection for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
It’s that time of the year once again. The Student Government Association (SGA) elections are set for March 30 and 31, where numerous candidates are running for executive, legislative and programming positions.
Before college, Thai food was a staple part of my week.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) have announced the list of candidates and their respective positions in a university-wide email for the 2026-2027 Student Government Association (SGA) election. Student Body President candidates include Seán Durkis-Dervogne, Jason Yu and Omotara Tiamiyu, while the Student Body Vice Presidential candidates are Sumire Sumi and Jazzlyn Fernandez. Honora Muratori, Amy Xu and Grace Guan are running unopposed for Student Body Secretary, Student Body Treasurer and Chair of Programming, respectively.
On Monday, March 23, the Committee of Student Elections (CSE) held an Executive Board Debate between the candidates running for the Student Government Association’s (SGA) Executive positions, including Student Body President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Chair of Programming. The online panel allowed the candidates to discuss their positions and opened them to questions from the audience. All of the candidates’ complete platforms can be found here.
Dr. Gerald Brandacher is the scientific director of the Hopkins Reconstructive Transplant Program and a professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the School of Medicine. Brandacher leads research in reconstructive transplantation, such as hand and face transplants, groundbreaking procedures that offer new possibilities for patients with otherwise untreatable injuries. In an interview with The News-Letter, Brandacher discussed the goals of the reconstructive transplant program and the challenges of vascularized composite allografts (VCA), the process of transferring tissues from donor to recipient, along with the innovations his team is pursuing to improve organ preservation.
March 27, 2026 marks the centennial birthday of the beloved American poet Frank O’Hara. Although the city most affiliated with O’Hara is New York City, with his name present in any mention of The New York School of Poets, he was born in Baltimore, thus giving us an excuse (not that it’s needed) to write about him for our Baltimore-located newspaper.
You asked me if you could drive my car the rest of the way home and I said, “Only if you have your learner’s permit on you.”
I’ve been thinking about my arrival at Hopkins a lot, especially because my amazing academic advisor Christine sent me an email talking about the big decision I will have to make soon: declaring my major.
Most sports fans out there will have been through a period (or two, or three or four...) where their favorite team is just absolutely terrible. I’m not talking about first-round exits or just missed the playoffs; I mean seriously, horrendously, god-awful bad. Those seasons where you would rather be stuck in a three-hour lecture that never seems to end than turn on the tele and watch five minutes because you know you’ll just be disappointed.
On Wednesday, March 11, the SNF Agora Institute and the Center for Leadership Education hosted Sen. Ben Cardin, former Maryland representative and U.S. congressman. His talk, titled “Engineering Responsible and Effective Civic Engagement,” explored the importance of civic engagement, leadership and being an informed citizen.
While brainstorming for my first Voices article this semester, I found myself rereading the pieces I wrote when college was still new enough to feel like something from a movie. One line from the first article I ever wrote stopped me: “I entered college believing in my ability to create and reinvent myself.”
I’ve been wanting to write an article for my mom, but never know where to start. An anecdote would be reductionist. A compliment would feel flattening. Any rendering would be static — and maybe that’s at the heart of it, that writing commits something to paper and necessarily asks us to draw pieces together into a neat picture. But people are not neat pictures, least of all those we know well.
19 is such a “middle child.” You’re past that initial excitement you had at 18 of technically being an adult, but you’re also still mentally a teen because your age doesn’t start with a 2. Yes, I’m turning 20 in about three months, and it feels very strange, but let this piece be something I can look back on years into the future.
Let me take you back to November 28th, 2025. It is 23:15 and to a group of friends, I text:
From Feb. 26 to March 1, the International Studies program hosted the annual Hopkins Model United Nations Conference (HOP MUNC). Model United Nations (MUN) is an educational simulation in which students compete as representatives from different countries in public speaking events. During these conferences, students debate and work to solve diverse transnational issues while practicing public speaking techniques and learning more about international diplomacy. Participants at the Hopkins MUN chapter engage with the organization by competing in different conferences and volunteering to staff HOP MUNC. At this conference, delegates from across the nation, hailing from other academic institutions, gathered at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., to role-play a range of United Nations (UN) committees and debate pressing global matters.
There’s a sort of ineffable magic in my hometown.
As innocent bystanders in the rapidly changing hellscape of the English language, semicolons have received far too much disrespect. It breaks our hearts.