Piper Kerman, the author of Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman’s Prison and a prison reform advocate, spoke in Shriver Hall Wednesday night as the first speaker of the 2016 Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS).
Hosted by Johns Hopkins Technology Venture’s FastForward, representatives from the startup accelerator Y-Combinator (YC) held an event in Hodson Hall on Friday. Visiting Hopkins as part of their Winter College Tour. Partner and head of admissions at YC Dalton Caldwell and hardware specialist Luke Iseman gave a presentation about the Silicon Valley-based company followed by a Q&A session with the audience.
Three of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers implicated in the death of Freddie Gray are seeking to block prosecutors’ attempts to appeal a decision made by Judge Barry Williams on Jan. 20 regarding a fourth officer’s testimony.
Correction: The headline previously stated Larson instead of Newsome.
Students gathered to watch Super Bowl 50 on Sunday night. While many opted to view the game privately with friends, others attended organized screenings to enjoy the game between the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers, which ended in a 24-10 victory for the Broncos.
Edward Snowden, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who in 2013 released thousands of classified documents to expose potentially illegal domestic surveillance programs, will speak as a part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) Wednesday Feb. 17 in Shriver Hall at 8 p.m.
United States President Barack Obama spoke out against anti-Muslim prejudice at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, which was originally founded by members of the Hopkins community, on Wednesday. It was his first visit to a mosque in America.
In Macedonia, students who are accepted into and attend any of the world’s top 100 universities are eligible to receive funding to cover tuition, living and traveling costs.
Recent changes to the University’s alcohol and party policies have altered the process of annual fraternity and sorority recruitment. The University has also made changes to recruitment itself, including shortening the pledge period, raising the price of recruitment and enforcing a dry rush for all fraternities.
Angela Davis, internationally recognized activist, writer and scholar, spoke to a sold-out Shriver Hall on Tuesday as part of the JHU Forums on Race in America speaker series. She spoke about the black radical movement, the need to dismantle the prison industrial complex and the importance of fighting for social justice.
Athletic Director (AD) Tom Calder has stepped down from his post and is moving to a new position in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at Hopkins. He will serve as director of alumni programs, a role he helped to create.
Scott Bailey, an associate professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, recently won the second annual Johns Hopkins University President’s Frontier Award. The $250,000 award is given to members of the Hopkins community who have had a major impact on the fields of science and technology.
Details on detours and closings during Phase One can be found here.
Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) spoke to Charles Village residents and Hopkins students at the Homewood Friends meetinghouse on Sunday. He addressed issues affecting the Baltimore community, focusing particularly on racism and education by using personal experience and anecdotes.
Bivid, an app developed by college students Dean Glas and Mendy Raskin and launched in beta in September 2015, allows users to share real-time information from a given location and to follow teams, celebrities and the like.
Hopkins Christian Fellowship (HCF) is hosting a month-long “Why Race Matters” series, which seeks to address the relationship between race and religion in society.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) released their 2016 speaker lineup Sunday. This year’s theme, Architects of the Future, was announced on Wednesday, Jan. 27. The symposium’s headline speaker is Edward Snowden, who will speak via virtual discussion on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 8 p.m. in Shriver Hall.
The Student Government Association (SGA) had its first meeting of the semester Sunday night to make-up for the time missed from the snow day. SGA also met on Tuesday, where John Hughes, president of Hopkins’ Active Minds chapter, presented a proposal for an upcoming event.
Voters cast their ballots in the Iowa Caucuses on Monday, awarding the first win of the party primaries for the 2016 U.S. Presidential election to Republican candidate Senator Ted Cruz (TX) and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State and senator from New York. The caucuses held a few unexpected turns, and promised Americans one thing: It’s going to be close.
Winter storm Jonas blew through the Homewood Campus on Jan. 22-25, leaving upwards of 30 inches of snow in its path.
