Professor Niloofar Haeri, chair of the Anthropology Department, and Professor Lawrence M. Principe, a professor in the History of Science and Technology Department and the Chemistry Department, were chosen as recipients of 2015 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Students gathered in the Mattin Courtyard on Saturday from 3 to 6 p.m. to get a taste of Taiwanese food and culture at the annual Night Market event, which was jointly hosted by the Taiwanese American Students Association (TASA) and the Taiwanese Student Association (TSA), an organization made up primarily of graduate students.
Promotious, a mobile app founded by two recent Hopkins graduates and a current senior that offers discounts for Charles Village restaurants, launched on April 9.
Benjamin Zaitchik, a professor in the Global Environmental Change and Sustainability (GECS) department, focuses his teaching and research on dealing with the consequences of climate change.
The Student Government Association (SGA) passed bills detailing changes in the Judiciary as a part of the new draft constitution, the possibility of a Chick-fil-A ban on campus and the establishment of a club at its meeting on Tuesday evening.
Sociology professor Matthew Crenson led a group of students to both modern and historic locations around Baltimore on Sunday, helping them to understand the history and significance of various landmarks and sights around the city.
The Women’s Initiative for Social Equity (WISE) hosted Accenture, a consulting firm, to discuss unconscious bias in the workplace at Gertrude’s restaurant on Tuesday.
Rachel Reichner, a junior majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, passed away on Saturday morning at her home in New York after a lengthy battle with cancer. Reichner was active within Hopkins Hillel and served as a Research Program Assistant for the Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center.
Karen Miner-Romanoff, dean of the College of Health and Public Administration at Franklin University, presented “A Discussion of Crime and Punishment in 21st Century America” at the Foreign Affairs Symposium’s (FAS) first “FAS: Unplugged” event on Tuesday at The Hopkins Club.
The Office of Student Life has created the position of Director of Gender Equity in an effort to more fully address the needs and concerns of both female and male students.
The Biomedical Engineering (BME) program, which is regularly ranked among the best in the country, has an annual budget of $23,600,000 and receives more funding than any other department within the Whiting School of Engineering.
The Hopkins chapter of The Triple Helix (TTH), a non-profit organization that publishes research journals written and edited by undergraduate students at universities around the world, hosted its fifth “science café” of the year in the Charles Commons Multipurpose Room on Tuesday. The cafés are designed to further the journal’s mission of bringing science to the public.
Spoon University, a national food blog with chapters at 122 other universities, launched a chapter at Hopkins on Wednesday.
Junior Arielle Kaden, a Woodrow Wilson fellow and a Writing Seminars major with a minor in Jewish Studies, will be travelling to several educational centers and universities this summer to learn about modern Jewish life in Europe.
The University will be working alongside Seawall Development and Baltimore City to improve the Remington neighborhood just south of Homewood campus. Instead of holding its usual Tuesday meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) joined University President Ronald J. Daniels and other Hopkins administrators on a tour of Remington.
The University is currently redesigning JHU.edu for the first time since 2009 in an effort to simplify it and make important information more easily accessible. The finished product is expected to debut at the end of April.
JHUTAMID, the newest Israel-centered student group on campus, is part of an international organization that connects business-minded students with professional opportunities in Israel.
Michael D. Brown, Washington D.C.’s shadow senator, discussed his campaign for civil rights, as well as his push for congressional representation for D.C., at an event hosted by the College Democrats in Gilman Hall on Wednesday.
The Sheridan Libraries has launched a marketing campaign to promote its Research Consultation Office (RCO), which is geared toward informing students of the underused research resources available to them.
Editor’s Note: Jack Bartholet is one of the editors-in-chief of The News-Letter. He was not involved in the reporting, writing or editing of this article.
