Splash, a day-long event where high school students can take classes taught by undergraduates from various colleges and universities, will be hosted on campus for the first time. The program was originally scheduled to begin on Feb. 27, but The Center for Social Concern (CSC) pushed the start date back to April 23 in order to accommodate changes made to class structure and size.
The Student Government Association (SGA) debated the creation of a new student center at Homewood on Tuesday during its weekly meeting in Shaffer Hall.
Speakers at the annual Public Health in Asia Symposium, themed “Growing Burdens: Persistent and Emerging Health Issues in Asia,” shared their viewpoints on topics ranging from environmental pollution to nutritional deficiencies. The symposium was held on Saturday in Gilman 50 as a collaboration between the East Asian Studies Program, the International Studies Program, the Anthropology Department, the History of Medicine Department and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Senior Alex Mathews, hailing from southern California, has pursued a variety of entrepreneurship and research endeavors during his time at Hopkins, his most recent startup being a social enterprise transforming orthotic device production.
The 19th annual Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) took place from Thursday to Sunday in the Hilton Baltimore and welcomed approximately 1,600 high school students.
Naomi Klein, environmental activist and writer, spoke in Shriver Hall as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) on Tuesday. Klein, a Canadian, is known for her critically acclaimed books This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate and The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, which discuss the relationships between climate change and capitalism, and the role governments should play in the economy.
Hopkins for the Homeless hosted a panel on Tuesday in Charles Commons featuring several Baltimore residents who have experienced homelessness.
Students at highly competitive universities are accustomed to dealing with academic pressure, and Hopkins has a particular culture that promotes the relentless pursuit of a high GPA.
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.
