The Carey Business School, founded at Hopkins in 2007, officially received accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The AACSB is widely recognized as the highest accreditation a business program can earn.
The third annual Public Health in Asia Symposium on Saturday featured two keynote speakers, Norman Epstein and Paul Kadetz, who discussed the culture of mental health care and antimicrobial resistance in China. The Symposium also included research on South Korea’s universal health care system which was presented by graduate students from the School of Public Health and an undergraduate freshman.
The African Students Association (ASA) hosted a forum on the black Muslim community in Baltimore on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in Charles Commons. The discussion revolved around Baltimore residents’ experience of the intersection between blackness and Islam.
Refuel our Future (ROF), a student-led fossil fuel divestment group at Hopkins, celebrated Valentine’s Day on Tuesday by handing out cards to raise awareness for Global Divestment Day and the University’s investment in fossil fuels.
Holly Taylor, Maria Merritt and David Dowdy spoke about social justice from the perspective of economic evaluation at a seminar hosted by the Berman Institute of Bioethics on Monday, Feb. 13. The seminar, called “The Incorporation of social justice into economic evaluation of novel drug regimens for MDR-TB,” is part of an ongoing series held twice a month.
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries, universities, including Hopkins, have condemned the order.
Finding a place at Hopkins in 1970
With the Republican Party controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency, the Democratic Party is evaluating the next steps they should take in response to the Trump administration.
For Hopkins undergraduate and graduate students, the coverage and cost of the school-sponsored health insurance program has caused confusion and dissatisfaction.
Following Tiffany Onyejiaka’s impeachment for attendance infractions last November, new senior class senator Jeremy Fraenkel was officially sworn in at the end of the Student Government Association’s (SGA) meeting on Tuesday.
The University has a two-year on-campus residency requirement for students, and while there are some University housing options available to upperclassmen, the majority of undergraduates move off campus following their sophomore year.
Tucked in the corner of Brody Learning Commons, the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections and Archives, houses works ranging from vintage student life photographs in the 1920s to an annotated Hamlet prompt book from 1676.
The Student-Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) protested on Feb. 3 and demanded a meeting with University President Ronald J. Daniels to discuss policies that would benefit Hopkins contract workers. But since then, attempts to arrange a meeting between SLAC and the administration have broken down.
New restaurants PekoPeko Ramen and R. House recently opened for business near the Homewood campus, quickly gaining popularity among students. R. House is a large warehouse-turned-dining-hall in Remington, while PekoPeko found its place in the Nine East 33rd building in Charles Village.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, renowned author, social activist and Hopkins alumna, spoke about the normalization of hate in the United States. She also reflected on her own literary works on Wednesday, Feb. 8 as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) in Shriver Hall.
Roughly 60 students, dining workers and security guards surprised University administrators on Friday, Feb. 3 by holding a protest in Garland Hall. They demanded new policies benefitting all contract workers, who are not directly employed by the University.
The computer science (CS) department is struggling to accommodate an unexpected surge in student interest for CS courses this spring semester.
After several semesters of debate on how to improve mental health at Hopkins, Shrenik Jain and Ravi Shah have attempted to create a new platform for counseling services.
The Student Government Association (SGA) elected Kenneth-Von Blackmon as the new executive treasurer at their weekly meeting in Charles Commons this Tuesday. The election followed the announcement that former Executive Treasurer John Tycher would step down from his position after his decision to go abroad in the spring 2017 semester.
Jennifer Fairman, associate professor at the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, spoke about the role of art in medical practices in the Bloomberg Center on Wednesday as part of the weekly JHU Visualization Discussion Group lecture.
