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.
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.
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.
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.
Supporters of the Humanities Center (HC) marched last Thursday, Nov. 17, from Levering Courtyard to the Wyman Park Building to confront Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) Beverly Wendland about the Center’s possible closure.
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.
More than 100 Hopkins students gathered on the Beach last Thursday to protest Donald J. Trump’s victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Supporters of the Humanities Center (HC) gathered in the Levering Courtyard last Thursday to protest its potential closure. Graduate students and professors voiced their concerns and placed the HC demonstration in the context of other student movements around the world.
Students walked out of class on Wednesday at 3 p.m. to show support for the national Sanctuary Campus movement. The campaign aims to protect undocumented immigrants on college campuses.
In response to Donald Trump’s victory, eight Hopkins professors speculated about the election’s impact on American society.
Karen Fleming, a Hopkins biophysics professor, spoke about discrimination and inherent biases against women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields on Wednesday. She also touched on the importance of diversity and inclusion and the systematic oppression of self-confidence in women. The talk was co-sponsored by Hopkins Feminists and The Triple Helix at JHU.
The Hopkins chapter of J Street U, a nationwide college campus movement advocating a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, gathered in front of Gilman Hall on Monday in solidarity with the Palestinian village of Susya. The village faces potential demolition from the Israeli government since it was built without building permits.
Evyn Lê Espiritu, a graduate student of the University of California Berkeley, led a discussion on Monday about the commonalities between the anti-imperialist movements in Palestine and Vietnam during the 1960s.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held impeachment trials and discussed the possibility of submitting a proposal to protect undocumented Hopkins students during their weekly meeting on Tuesday.
Deborah Dong, a licensed clinical social worker based in New York City, held a workshop exploring mental health issues in the Asian American community in Levering Hall on Monday in an event hosted by the Inter-Asian Council (IAC).
Last Thursday, Environment Maryland presented the Baltimore Renewable Energy Forum, co-hosted by Chesapeake Climate Action Network and Retrofit Baltimore. The event was one of 70 held across the country as part of a week dedicated to promoting renewable energy.
Members of the Hopkins Korean community gathered in front of Shriver Hall on Wednesday afternoon to protest the recent political scandal involving South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Choi Soon-sil. The scandal has been nicknamed ‘Choi Soon-silgate’ by the press.
Spanish-Argentinian author Andrés Neuman discussed and read from his newest book, How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America, at the first event at new café-bookstore Bird in Hand. The reading, co-sponsored by the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute (AGHI) and the Program in Latin American Studies, took place on Thursday, Nov. 10.
Eyder Peralta, one of the hosts of the National Public Radio (NPR) show The Two-Way, presented his research on Philando Castile’s interactions with a discriminatory police force before Castile’s untimely death.
