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.
This semester, students did not pack the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center for the usual activities fair frenzy. Instead, organizations occupied the Breezeway for five days during the new Student Involvement Week.
The Chinese Student Association (CSA) rung in the Lunar New Year with over 370 Hopkins students last Friday, pushing the Glass Pavilion to its limit.
With water heater failures, broken HVAC systems and drafty windows, some students have experienced the bitter cold of winter inside their residential halls.
Continuing crime in the Charles Village area has prompted Executive Director of Campus Safety and Security Lee James to consider additions to security technology used by the University to improve campus safety.
The second annual Encounters Among Faiths symposium, held in Gilman Hall on Friday, examined the relationships between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Medieval Mediterranean.
Ahmed Elsayyad, Zein Quraishi and Lamin Sonko, three friends and alumni of Hopkins, launched the Elsayyad Medical Group, a healthcare recruiting and consulting company, last September. The group works to connect healthcare providers with physicians and potential staff.
Fewer Hopkins seniors give money to the University than seniors at peer institutions. The Hopkins Senior Class Gift Committee, an organization of seniors who encourage others to give back, is trying to increase giving among seniors and understand why Hopkins has a lower rate than other schools.
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.
