Jack Devine, former acting director and associate director of foreign operations at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), opened the 2015 Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) “Chaos / Catalyst / Clarity” series Wednesday night. Devine discussed his career, contemporary geopolitical issues and his autobiography Good Hunting! A Spymaster’s Story, published in June.
Students hosted the 18th annual Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) at the Hilton Baltimore Hotel from Feb. 5-8. Around 1,500 high school delegates and 200 advisors from nearly 100 high schools from across the U.S. gathered at the hotel to hold seven committee sessions.
The Off-Campus Housing Office and Campus Security offered free cookies and advice on finding off-campus housing at the Love Thy Neighbor cookie-decorating party in the Charles Commons Multi-Purpose Room on Wednesday.
A panel of experts discussed the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks at a talk co-hosted by The Foreign Affairs Symposium, the Department of Political Science and the Islamic Studies Program on Friday evening.
Students in the course Lectures on Health and Wellbeing in Baltimore, a Public Health Studies seminar coordinated by Philip Leaf, heard from Baltimore Public School System (BPSS) CEO Gregory E. Thornton in class on Tuesday in Remsen Hall.
Three professors discussed ongoing efforts to innovate in the classroom on Monday at the DigIT Innovation Talks event hosted by the University’s Digital Initiatives program, which seeks to increase school digitization and the use of technology to enhance academics.
The Campus Kitchen chapter at Hopkins seeks to alleviate local hunger through its partnership with Bon Appétit Management Company, donating leftover food from campus dining facilities to Baltimoreans in need.
Filmmaker, lawyer and social activist Dawn Porter spoke to students about public defenders and racism in the American criminal justice system as the keynote speaker for the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) Black History Month event series on Tuesday.
The University is increasing its efforts to recycle and reduce waste generation as RecycleMania, an eight-week competition between colleges lasting from Feb. 1 to March 28, returns to campus this spring.
From analyzing the organic chemistry of something as simple as bread, to explaining the forensic chemistry of cultural heritage objects, Chemistry for Connoisseurs — a new seminar-style chemistry course taught by Professor John Tovar — exposes freshmen and sophomores to real-world applications of organic chemistry and teaches them about scientific communication.
After last November’s brief moratorium on all social events held in Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) fraternity houses, Greek life has regained its momentum and rush is officially underway.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) hosted a launch event Monday in the Mudd Atrium to share information about the Spring 2015 speaker series, “Chaos / Catalyst / Clarity.”
Students’ rights to access academic documents under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) has been in the national spotlight following a movement to request admissions records at Stanford University.
Hopkins is partnering with Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), a university in Barcelona, to offer a five-year BA/MA program in World History to eligible students currently majoring in International Studies or History, who also speak Spanish.
The third TEDxBaltimore conference, an independently organized TED conference, drew a record number of attendees to Morgan State University on Friday for a series of talks centered around the theme of “Collisions.”
University President Ronald J. Daniels published a paper on the decline in grants for young scientists in the Jan. 13 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences out of concern that the future of science is at risk.
CollegeChoice, an online college information resource, ranked Hopkins freshmen as the 20th happiest freshman class in its list of the 50 Colleges and Universities with the Happiest Freshmen, which was calculated using only freshman retention rates.
Colleen Clancy, professor of pharmacology at the School of Medicine at University of California, Davis, presented her work on a novel approach towards computational medicine as part of the Distinguished Seminar Series on Tuesday in Mason Hall.
Laughs and cordial greetings echoed down the athletic center hallway from the auxiliary gym last Thursday at 10:30 p.m. Inside, players of the JHU Cricket Club organized themselves into teams to kick off their first official practice. Once this was settled, the bowler focused on the far-off stumps and began winding up. After he gained momentum from a short jog and a windmill-style arm motion, the ball was released and hit by the bat with a loud crack. The outfielders scrambled to get the ball to the stumps and the hitters dashed back and forth to get as many 22-yard runs as possible.
In an effort to reconnect the Hopkins community to its shared history and traditions, the Office of the President launched Hopkins Retrospective, a project that includes several initiatives intended to make the University’s history more widely accessible.
