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September 7, 2025
September 7, 2025 | Published by the Students of Johns Hopkins since 1896

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Experts at the event discussed the China’s economic growth and America’s relationship with the country.

University hosts inaugural conference on U.S.–China relations

The Hopkins chapter of Global China Connection hosted a regional conference focusing on the rise of China, the domestic and international challenges that the Chinese communist leadership faces and the changing geopolitics of the East Asian region. The six-hour event featured experts in international studies, geopolitics and international affairs as well as student research presentations. The conference took place on Saturday in Hodson Hall.




Transgender health center to open in 2017

Johns Hopkins Medicine will open the Center for Transgender Health by early spring of next year. The Center aims to provide transgender people with a lifelong healthcare program.




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Student groups came together to promote men’s mental health.

CHEW fair promotes men’s mental health

The Masculinity Project, a semester-long effort to promote conversation about masculinity on college campuses, culminated with the Health and Wellness fair held on Tuesday in the Glass Pavilion.


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Professor Silbergeld discussed the harmful effects of industrial farming and contracting in agriculture.

Author talks dark side of industrial farming

Ellen K. Silbergeld, a professor of environmental health studies, epidemiology and health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke about her critically acclaimed book, Chickenizing Farms and Food, at Barnes & Noble on Nov. 20.


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Hopkins is renowned for being the first research university in the U.S.

From the humanities to STEM, what are students researching?

How does the research-oriented environment at Hopkins affect students? Daniel Coit Gilman, the University’s first president, promoted a model that emphasized teaching and research that revolutionized higher education across the country. Gilman’s model made Hopkins the first U.S.-based research university.


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The forum allowed students to get to know their SGA representatives.

SGA forum addresses mental health, diversity

The Student Government Association (SGA) hosted its first annual Fall Forum, a platform for students to openly ask questions, view presentations and provide feedback to the SGA for its work, on Tuesday in Mudd Hall. The main discussions items on the agenda were mental health and diversity and inclusion, which the SGA has outlined as two of its three key focus areas for this academic year.


USC prof. analyzes translation software

Jonathan May, a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute, gave a talk on Nov. 29 about Natural Language Processing (NLP), a branch of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages.


Nobel Laureate talks healthcare in Cuba

Chemistry Nobel Laureate Dr. Peter Agre spoke about his experiences meeting with the recently deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins Club. Agre also invited Luis Alberto Montero-Cabrera, a professor at the University of Havana, to speak about his experiences as a teacher in Cuba.


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President of Refuel Our Future Maggie Weese addressed the peaceful protestors outside of Garland Hall.

Refuel Our Future protests University's investments in fossil fuels

Refuel Our Future, a student led fossil fuel divestment campaign at Hopkins, staged a peaceful protest and sit-in on Thursday, Nov. 17 outside Garland Hall. The group demanded that the University respond to their divestment proposal, which demands that the part of its endowment that is invested in fossil fuel companies be eliminated.



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Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) participated in a Q&A with University President Ronald J. Daniels after his speech.

Bernie Sanders speaks to over 2,000 on campus

Since the announcement that former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders would speak on campus, the Hopkins community eagerly anticipated his arrival. Students began lining up in front of Shriver Hall on Thursday at 1 p.m., six hours before Sanders’ talk.




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