The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA) held its annual carnival as part of April Awareness Days in support of all sexual orientations and gender identities on the Freshman Quad on Friday.
The Committee on Student Elections reported the results of the Student Government Association (SGA) Class Council elections on Monday afternoon. Current Junior Class Senator Amy Sun, running unopposed, was elected president of the Class of 2016, and incumbent Syed Hossain was reelected president of the Class of 2017 over two contenders.
Vice Provost for Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger has formed a committee to evaluate the smoking policy at the Homewood and Peabody campuses. The committee plans to either make the campuses smoke-free or to limit smoking to designated outdoor areas.
The rapper Nelly, this year’s Spring Fair headliner, was arrested on Saturday in Tennessee and charged with felony possession of drugs, simple possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. It has not yet been decided if he will still perform at Hopkins on April 24.
David Plouffe, the manager of U.S. President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, headlined the final Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) event of the year, which was co-sponsored by the College Democrats.
The Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Library will undergo structural and aesthetic renovations following the collection of student, faculty and administrative input.
The Sexual Violence Advisory Committee (SVAC) hosted a sparsely attended open focus group session on April 9 led by Title IX Coordinator and Assistant Vice Provost Allison Boyle and SVAC undergraduate representative sophomore Nicholas Ulm.
Following its signature annual event, JHU Relay For Life has raised about $38,000 to benefit the American Cancer Society.
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.
