Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Englund discussed his debut book, March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution, on Thursday, April 6 in Barnes and Noble.
Yoon Jung Park, an adjunct associate professor in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University, presented “Chinese labor migrants in Africa, past and present,” a talk about the history of Chinese migration to Africa and the African response to the new Chinese migrants.
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.
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.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, came to Hopkins to discuss politics and the media. The Office of the Dean of Student Life sponsored the talk on Thursday, April 6.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced on Tuesday that the New Horizons ticket won the Student Government Association (SGA) executive board elections, defeating the HopForward ticket.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Ian Hutchinson discussed the relationship between religion and science as part of the Veritas Forum last Thursday, April 6. The talk titled, “Does Science Lead to Atheism?” took place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy.
HopForward and New Horizons, the two tickets running for the Student Government Association (SGA) executive board, defended their platforms in a debate on Thursday night. Senior Yadel Okorie, chair of the Committee on Student Elections (CSE), moderated the event. The debate covered issues like diversity, SGA transparency and its ability to represent the student body.
Public speaker and activist Wagatwe Wanjuki spoke about combating sexual assault and rape culture on college campuses, Tuesday evening in Hodson Hall.
Elections for next year’s Student Government Association (SGA) executive board will open this Friday, April 7. The two tickets running for office are “New Horizons” and “HopForward.”
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).
The Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) hosted a moderated discussion, led by Associate Professor of Political Science Erin Chung, on Asian-American political coalitions in the Trump era.
Dean of Student Life Terry Martinez opened Tuesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting. She discussed the University’s new “freedom of expression guidelines” and the mental health taskforce.
Associate Professor of Sociology Ho-fung Hung discussed China’s future in the Trump era at a talk on Thursday, Mar. 30 in Barnes and Noble. The event was part of a promotion for his book, The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World, published in 2015.
At the seventh annual Johns Hopkins Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute (E²SHI) symposium discussed the “nexus,” an environmental concept that explains how the impacts of water, energy and food security are interrelated.
IDEAL, a nonpartisan political advocacy student group, hosted an interview with Jonathan Zimmerman on Thursday, March 30. Zimmerman, who has Ph.D. in history from Hopkins, is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, and his research focuses on free speech and politics on college campuses. At the event he spoke about key points from his latest book Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know.
Paul Ferraro, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Business and Engineering, gave a talk on his ongoing research about the effects of human behavior on anti-poverty programs and the environment, namely deforestation. Over 30 people attended the lecture, which took place on Thursday, March 30 at Olin Hall.
The East Asian Studies program and the Sociology department hosted a talk on Korean identity and citizenship by Jaeeun Kim on March 30. Kim, an assistant professor of Sociology and the Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the University of Michigan, specializes in international migration and citizenship.
Former Wall Street trader and Hopkins alum Chris Arnade presented a talk titled “Divided by meaning: An exploration of Trump” on Friday, March 31. Arnade retired from Wall Street in 2012 to document poverty and addiction across the United States through his photography series, Faces of Addiction.
The University released updates to the Homewood Student Affairs (HSA) branding guidelines, on Friday, March 31. Many undergraduate student groups had expressed frustration with the original guidelines, which limited their use of the Hopkins name and iconography.
