The Maryland Court of Appeals, the highest court in the state, has now postponed the trials of five Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers implicated in the death of Freddie Gray while it decides whether the sixth officer implicated can be compelled to testify against them. The decision came Thursday, four days before the next trial was scheduled to start.
The University announced on Tuesday the creation of the Task Force on Mental Health and Well-Being, an initiative to analyze and improve well-being on campus.
Dining staff at Hopkins work every day through the cold, snow, heat and rain to serve students. To allow the students to get to know these dedicated people a little better, The News-Letter interviewed some of the staff about their thoughts and experiences working at Hopkins.
The Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity co-hosted a talk entitled “Relationship or Not: Let’s Talk About Consent” on Thursday. Ashley Hobbs and Sherine Powerful, members of Black Women’s Blueprint, a Brooklyn-based social justice organization, led the discussion.
History Professor Philip Morgan gave a presentation entitled “Entangled Lives: Slavery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon,” on Thursday evening in Mason Hall. The talk, illuminating the slave experience on Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation, was delivered in celebration of Black History Month by the Homewood Museum, the former country house and slave-holding farm of the Carroll.
Adam Sheingate, associate professor and chair of political science at Hopkins, led a discussion session on the current presidential primary season on Wednesday. The Hopkins chapter of IDEAL (Inform, Discuss, Enlighten, Acknowledge, Learn) hosted the event.
David Narrow, a BME CBID (Center for Bloomberg Innovation and Design) alumnus, shared his experiences with entrepreneurship startups on Wednesday as a part of the BME EDGE (Extramural Development in Graduate Education) Speaker Series.
Provost Robert C. Lieberman will be leaving his position in June and assuming a professorship in the Department of Political Science in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
“I’ve never been feminine my entire life,” Chris, a freshman at Hopkins, said.
Edward Snowden, controversial NSA whistleblower, spoke to a packed Shriver Hall on Wednesday at the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). In June 2013, Snowden revealed documents containing secret NSA surveillance practices to journalists, which began a debate on the role of privacy rights in government surveillance.
Black History Month has been celebrated for the past 45 years in order to promote and remember the African American narrative throughout American history. Hopkins students of color reflected on its importance, especially in the context of current events involving racial equality and Black Lives Matter.
Robert C. Lieberman, who has served as the University’s provost since 2013, is stepping down from his current role to focus on scholarship and research in the areas of race and inequality, effective June 2016.
The Hopkins Muslim Association, College Republicans, Sikh Student Association and the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) collaborated to host a panel entitled Confronting Islamophobia: A Discussion of Islamophobia in America.
With three months to go until the democratic primary, the field of candidates for Baltimore Mayor remains packed. As of Feb. 16, more than two dozen individuals have declared their candidacy, with 12 of them vying for the Democratic nomination. The incumbent mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, will not be running for reelection.
Leana Wen, the Health Commissioner of Baltimore City, gave a talk on Feb. 11 as part of the ongoing Conversations in Medicine Symposium (CiM). Wen was the first speaker in this semester’s series, which will also feature two Hopkins professors of medicine and an associate professor in economics from Brown University.
Hopkins alumnus Ben Yuhas gave a presentation about political campaign spending in Gilman Hall on Thursday hosted by the Hopkins Undergraduate Society for Applied Mathematics (HUSAM). The talk, Moneyball in Politics, detailed how campaign teams spend money and how they collect and analyze data to spend it wisely.
Students from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions attended the Real Food Baltimore Regional Action Training and Strategy Retreat, hosted by Real Food Hopkins, at Charles Commons from Feb. 11-14. The weekend’s events centered around protesting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, as well as planning new initiatives and strategies to promote “real” food on college campuses.
Luis Miguel Castilla is the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States, which he characterizes as his country’s most important diplomatic post. He served as Peru’s Minister of Economy and Finance from 2011 to 2014 and has worked at the World Bank, the Development Bank of the Americas and the University of the Pacific in Lima.
The Student Government Association (SGA) convened in the Charles Commons Multipurpose Room on Tuesday to discuss the Hopkins Club Championship Reserve Fund and co-sponsoring a Leap Year Gala with the Residential Advisory Board (RAB). Junior Adelaide Morphett was also sworn in as a member of the Junior Class Council.
Led by Real Food Hopkins, students and community members protested the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on Friday. The rally, which began at Pennsylvania Station and ended Representative Elijah Cummings’ office, drew students from across the East Coast, local citizens and activists from Baltimore and the Baltimore Police Department.
