The new student union space and dining facility, the LaB, opened on Feb. 3 in the Homewood apartments building. It joins a cohort of other student union spaces including Levering Hall, the Mattin Center and Nolan’s on 33rd that serve as social areas.
Hopkins graduates Mario Jovan Shaw and Jason Terrell were roommates at Teach for America and then entered the master’s program the Johns Hopkins School of Education when they realized a fundamental problem: How could they encourage young black boys to continue their education or go into education, as they did? Shaw and Terrell discovered that young black boys needed to see role models like themselves in the classroom.
Students gathered in front of the Hopkins sign on N. Charles Street on Wednesday afternoon to denounce sexual assault. They stood holding signs, some of which read, “End Rape Culture,” “Estimated 95% Unreported,” “Silence is Violence” and “You are not alone.”
Prasenjit Duara, the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University, gave a lecture titled “Transcendence in a Secular World” on Monday, Feb. 6 in Mergenthaler Hall. As the first event of the East Asian Studies spring 2017 speaker series, Duara’s talk centered around Asian traditions and their impact on a sustainable future.
Homewood Professor of the Arts Thomas Dolby discussed his new memoir, The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology, on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 8 at Barnes & Noble.
As part of the first annual Miriam Decosta-Willis Lecture Series, Jessica Ann Levy spoke about U.S. black empowerment in the business sphere of the 1960s and how such history is relevant today on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) officially announced their speaker lineup for the spring semester on Thursday, Feb. 2. For the Symposium’s 20th anniversary, they have brought together a range of speakers united around the theme “Undercurrent.”
Javad Fotouhi, a third-year PhD student studying computer science at Hopkins, was traveling back to the United States after visiting family in Iran when he and his wife were detained at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.
On the day following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of Americans took to the streets for the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.
The order, which was signed on Friday, Jan. 27 immediately confused passengers, as well as federal agencies and airlines as they attempted to enforce and comply with the travel ban.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, social activist and co-founder of the Russian punk rock protest group Pussy Riot, spoke at Shriver Hall on Wednesday. It was the first Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) event for this semester.
Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America on Friday, Jan. 20.
With over 4,000 members, the Facebook group “Hopkins Memes for My Lost Hopes and Dreams” serves as an online destination for students to post Hopkins-related memes.
Jared Hickman, associate English professor, spoke about the publication of his book Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery, on Thursday, Jan. 19 at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse.
In its first meeting of the semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) reflected on the Fall 2016 semester and outlined some of its plans for this semester in the Charles Commons Barber Conference Room on Tuesday.
Twenty-six faculty from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health wrote a letter to President Trump urging him not to sign an executive order severely restricting the United States refugee program. Hours after the letter’s publication, Trump officially signed the executive order, which bans travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries and indefinitely bans Syrian refugees.
In December 2016, junior Christian Cholish and senior Nadya Kronis relaunched Argot, an undergraduate anthropological research journal which examines the role of anthropology in relation to the humanities, and other sciences across various mediums. Cholish and Kronis, who are both anthropology majors, serve as co-editors of the journal.
A protest against President Trump’s recent executive orders was held on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Edward A. Garmatz United States Courthouse. A couple hundred protesters gathered in front of the Thurgood Marshall statue and then marched along Hopkins Place and W. Lombard St. towards the Inner Harbor.
Baltimore native Barbara Mikulski joined the U.S. Senate for the Democratic Party in 1976 and went on to become the longest-serving woman in Congressional history. She is also the longest-serving Maryland Senator.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) announced today that Nadya Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, will be the first speaker of its spring series, "Undercurrent." Tolokonnikova, a radical feminist and anti-fascist activist, will speak in Shriver Hall at 7 p.m. on Feb. 1.
