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April 26, 2024

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Students support homeless patient

Seniors John Di Capua and Nahyr Lugo-Fagundo raised $320 through a bake sale in front of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSE) on Nov. 16 to support Dwayne, a local homeless man who received surgery pro bono at Hopkins Hospital to repair his dysfunctional legs.







Two suspects arrested and charged in SAE rape case

Two Reisterstown, Md. men have been arrested and charged with 14 offenses, including first- and second-degree rape, against a 16-year-old girl inside the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity house on Nov. 2, according to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD).





SGA addresses BIT, community forum

The Student Government Association (SGA) meeting on Tuesday focused on how the SGA can take action to resolve the issues regarding binge drinking and sexual assault that were discussed at its Community Forum on Nov. 13.


SEA panelists propose local environmental actions

Students for Environmental Action (SEA) and Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure Program (SHIP) hosted Katie O’Meara, environmental design professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Brenna Goggin, environmental advocate at the Delaware Nature Society, for their first Sustainable Action Speaker Series panel on Nov. 13.


Professor describes the math behind music

Guest professor Marc de Graef, from Carnegie Mellon University’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, delivered a presentation about the numbers behind musicality in the Gilman Atrium on Friday evening.





Gallagher receives neuroscience prize

The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) awarded Michela Gallagher, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, with the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual Neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.


BME team awarded prize for invention

A Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering team took home second place and a $10,000 prize in the undergraduate division of the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition for AccuSpine, a probe that assists with spinal fusion surgeries.


Hopkins surgeon builds artificial hand for teacher

Dr. Albert Chi, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an assistant professor of surgery at the Hopkins School of Medicine, recently decided to construct a prosthetic hand for Patti Anderson, a fourth-grade teacher at Western Salisbury Elementary School after her students wrote to the doctor on her behalf..


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