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(09/21/17 4:33pm)
The Public Interest Investment Advisory Committee (PIIAC) recommended that the University divest from fossil fuels in a report released on Friday. Following PIIAC’s recommendation, the Office of the Provost established a 30-day period for the Hopkins community to submit feedback online.
(09/14/17 4:18pm)
Special Collections, a University archive of rare documents, introduced the Freshman Fellows program last year as part of an effort to more closely engage undergraduate students with Special Collections research. The year-long fellowship drew 24 freshman applicants, of which four Fellows were selected.
(09/14/17 4:03pm)
The Trump administration announced its intention to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in six months.
(09/08/17 11:47pm)
Bird in Hand, a cafe-bookshop in Charles Village co-created by local bookstore The Ivy Bookshop and Baltimore coffeehouse Artifact Coffee, welcomed Baltimorean writer Rafael Alvarez on Tuesday night as part of his monthly reading series, Readings with Ralphie.
(05/16/17 9:35pm)
For its final event of the semester, the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) held a pop-up exhibition of 20 posters designed by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The posters, which depicted scenes from the global refugee crisis, were displayed in the Mudd Hall Atrium from Sunday to Monday.
(05/12/17 9:56pm)
Baltimore Police Department (BPD) arrested sophomore Advaith Baimeedi on Thursday for calling 911 to make a false bomb threat at approximately 7:07 that morning. According to a statement from the BPD, Baimeedi said in the call that he had placed explosive devices in several lecture halls on Homewood Campus. The University postponed 9 a.m. final examinations by an hour to investigate but found nothing suspicious.
(05/04/17 5:00pm)
Students, professors and guest speakers gathered for a roundtable discussion to share their experiences living in Baltimore and discuss the University’s role in the city.
(04/27/17 1:43pm)
Astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins, the first person to ever sequence DNA in space, gave a talk at the Bloomberg Center on her experiences aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The talk, titled “Science in Extreme Environments,” took place on Monday.
(04/20/17 3:22pm)
Nearly 50 graduate students marched on Garland Hall to demand University healthcare reform on Friday, April 14. The demonstration was organized by Teachers and Researchers United (TRU), a coalition of graduate students.
(04/20/17 3:00pm)
TCO Labs, a student-run nonprofit organization whose goal is to foster a stronger entrepreneurial environment at Hopkins, held its first annual Hatch Innovation Conference on Saturday afternoon in Hodson Hall. The conference brought together various student, alumni and local startups.
(04/13/17 3:43pm)
Sculptor and printmaker David Hess displayed a collection of mock assault rifles in the Levering Glass Pavilion on Monday afternoon. Titled the Gun Show, the pop-up exhibition centered around a panel discussion, during which nearly 40 people gathered in a circle around the rifles and related their personal experiences with guns and gun violence.
(04/13/17 3:37pm)
Environmental advocacy group Students for Environmental Action (SEA) recently launched the Progressive Student Update (PSU), a weekly newsletter that aims to unite left-leaning student groups on campus.
(04/06/17 2:31pm)
Hopkins alum Ron Capps, founder and director of the nonprofit organization Veterans Writing Project (VWP), spoke in Mudd Hall on Wednesday as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS).
(03/30/17 4:13pm)
New York Times Columnist Frank Bruni is set to speak at the University Commencement Ceremony on May 24. Bruni, who has worked at The Times since 1995, has taken on diverse positions from chief restaurant critic to White House press correspondent in the early days of the Bush presidency. His column covers a variety of topics, including higher education, politics and LGBT+ rights.
(03/30/17 4:09pm)
Nils Bubandt, professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, gave a talk titled “The Passing of Paradise: Corals and The(ir) End in West Papua” as part of the Critical Climate Thinking Lecture Series on Tuesday afternoon.
(03/16/17 1:52pm)
After insisting on meeting solely with the student members of the Student-Labor Action Coalition (SLAC), the University agreed on Monday to also meet with contract worker unions on March 31.
(03/16/17 1:42pm)
TEDxJHU held its annual conference on Saturday afternoon at Mudd Hall, hosting a total of seven speakers with the theme “Under Construction.”
(03/09/17 4:19pm)
Jesse Rosenthal, assistant professor and director of undergraduate studies for the Hopkins English department, gave a talk on his 2016 book Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel.
(03/02/17 4:27pm)
In 1951, the Johns Hopkins Hospital took cervical cancer cells from Henrietta Lacks, a black Baltimore resident, and developed the HeLa cell line. Her cells contributed to major medical discoveries, including the development of polio vaccine.
(03/02/17 3:50pm)
Ashley Fiutko Arico, who recently earned her Ph.D. in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Hopkins, held a talk at the University’s Archaeological Museum featuring objects she identified from pre-dynastic Egypt. Her presentation, which took place in Gilman Hall on Friday, Feb. 24, was based on a project she began in 2012. Her presentation explained that the majority of the objects in the Museum were given to the University by the Egyptian Exploration Fund (EEF).