The University announced that Spike Lee, a writer, director, producer and entrepreneur, will be the 2016 commencement speaker on May 18 at the Royal Farms Arena.
The Career Center has gone through a thorough restructuring of both staff and services in the past year. The center has been shifting its model to focus more on career academies than career counseling.
The sophomore housing selection process was revamped and moved online this year. The Housing Office introduced this new method in order to reduce competition and improve ease of use. The Class of 2019 was divided about the success of the new process with many students expressed frustrations about miscommunication from the Housing Office.
The University’s Student Health and Wellness Center (HelWell or SHWC) often has a bad reputation, with stories floating around of misdiagnosis, ineffectual remedies and excessive prescription of antibiotics.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) hosted The Future of Policing in America: A Moderated Panel, during which the speakers discussed measures that could be taken to improve policing policy in the United States.
The University announced Thursday that it will expand its Baltimore Scholars program to offer full-ride scholarships to Baltimore City public high school students.
Ezra Klein, journalist and editor-in-chief of the news site Vox, spoke at Shriver Hall on Wednesday as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). Klein is also a noted political and economic columnist and has worked for the Washington Post, Bloomberg and various MSNBC programs.
The Hopkins Dialectic, a new student journal, will examine the intersection of Christianity with science, philosophy and literature. The journal was founded last semester by sophomore Karl Johnson and plans to publish its first issue next month.
This year’s Spring Fair lineup were revealed Wednesday night at PJ’s Pub Charles Village. Almost 100 students and Baltimoreans paid the $10 entrance fee for a slice of pizza and two drinks to watch the reveal.
Jo Handelsman, associate director for science at the White House’s Office of Science and Technology, spoke in Mason Hall on Tuesday about pervasive unconscious biases against employing women and minorities in the STEM fields.
With spring break just around the corner, many Hopkins students are looking forward to a week of fun and relaxation at home or traveling to a sunny location with friends. Others have chosen to spend their spring break here in Baltimore serving the community through JHU’s Alternative Breaks Program.
Reflections on women and race
Five female students shared their different experiences of religion and gender at the Interfaith Panel on Women and Religion on March 3 in Hodson Hall. The event was held in celebration of Women’s History Month and Open Hands Open Hearts — Religious Diversity Awareness Week.
The Department of Political Science and the Center for Africana Studies hosted a debate entitled From Protest to Politics? #BLM and the Future of Black America this past Wednesday in Levering’s Great Hall. The debate featured JHU’s Associate Professor of Political Science Lester Spence and Brown University’s Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics Glenn C. Loury. The two professors discussed the Black Lives Matter movement and the state of social and racial justice in America.
Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Officer William Porter will be compelled to testify against all five of his fellow officers implicated in the death of Freddie Gray, per the ruling of the Maryland Court of Appeals delivered on Tuesday.
The seventh annual High Table dinner was held on Monday at the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center. It offered an opportunity for freshmen and faculty to share a meal together and interact outside of the typical classroom setting. More than 70 professors intermixed with the Class of 2019 for a unique dining experience.
Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment and Disney are collaborating in a film project about Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, also known as Dr. Q, the director of the Brain Tumor Surgery Program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
The Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) hosted the workshop “Hookup Culture: Sexual Freedom or Rape Culture?” on March 7 in Mergenthaler 111. The interactive and discussion-based session was lead by Sherine Andreine Powerful and Ashley J. Hobbs, the campus and communications programs coordinator from Black Women’s Blueprint (BWB).
Public health experts discussed the issue of high prescription drug prices in the U.S. at the event “Prescription Drug Pricing: New Solutions” on Tuesday in Sheldon Hall at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The talk was part of a series of five seminars held to mark the school’s centennial anniversary. It included representatives from the government, public health professors and pharmaceutical companies.
The University yearbook, which has been published annually by students since 1889, has been discontinued for the 2015-2016 academic year due to lack of student interest.
