To discuss the consequences of the recent decriminalization of marijuana in Maryland, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute (UHI) sponsored a panel Tuesday afternoon in the Marjorie Fisher Auditorium in Gilman Hall.
TEDxJHU hosted its first Salon event on Sunday featuring Margaret Hart, STEM Program manager at Hopkins, and Charm City Science League (CCSL) Co-Presidents Arush Tripathy and Surekha Mullangi. They spoke about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education in a community context.
The Peabody Library celebrated Halloween by throwing a literary-themed party, inviting undergraduate students from Homewood and Peabody dressed as their favorite characters from works by authors ranging from J. D. Salinger to Dr. Seuss. The famous library was lavishly decorated for the occasion. Electric candles hung from the ceiling and spider-webs covered shelves and tables.
The Hopkins Bboys hosted the first fall Urban Floor Degree, a professional breakdancing competition in the Mattin Center.
Alumnus Harvey Klinger spoke about his career as a literary agent on Tuesday at an event sponsored by on-campus magaine Thoroughfare and the Hopkins chapter of Her Campus and co-sponsored by on-campus magainzes J.Magazine and The Black and Blue Jay. Klinger received his M.A. from the Writing Seminars Department at Hopkins.
The JHU Muslim Association (JHUMA) held Islamic Awareness Week from Oct. 27-31, putting together five days of events that aimed to spread knowledge about Islam and the issues facing the Muslim community today.
The Johns Hopkins Magic Initiative and Johns Hopkins Magic Team hosted award-winning magician Nathan Nickerson in Shriver Hall as the last event of the annual Magic Week.
In response to the administration’s handling of sexual assault investigations, students protested around campus in a “Rally to End Rape Culture” on Wednesday.
A team from the Blue Jay Battalion of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), which consists of 102 Cadets from Hopkins, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and University of Maryland-Baltimore City (UMBC), recently won the 4th Brigade Cadet Commander’s Ranger Challenge competition at Fort Pickett, Va.
The first Teach-In For Gaza, a conference organized by four graduate students in the department of anthropology in conjunction with Hopkins Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), was held in Hodson Hall on Friday.
U.S. News and World Report ranked Hopkins 11th among 496 global universities for 2015. This is the first year the publication has ranked universities from different nations on the same list.
Actress Jackie Cruz, who plays Flaca in the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black, visited campus on Oct. 23 to speak at an event hosted by OLÉ (Organización Latina Estudiantil).
The first-ever Vegan SoulFest drew 71 animal rights groups, public health organizations, food vendors and vegan chefs to the Downtown Cultural Arts Center on Saturday to promote a vegan lifestyle.
The Global China Connection (GCC) hosted a live debate between members of the Woodrow Wilson Debate Council Wednesday evening, focusing on the effects of the ongoing “Occupy Central” campaign in Hong Kong. The movement has been organized around controversy surrounding the definition of universal suffrage.
The third Annual Waverly Beats and Eats Festival, an event organized by Waverly Main Street and co-sponsored by the University, was held Saturday on Merryman Lane to celebrate the people and businesses in the Waverly neighborhood.
“Iraq: War & Everyday Life,” a forum for students, was hosted by the Department of Anthropology and the Arab Students Organization on Wednesday night. The forum featured two speakers, Hayder Al-Mohammad, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Mac Skelton, a Ph.D. student of Anthropology at Hopkins.
The I.D.E.A.L. Voting club hosted Steven David, vice dean for undergraduate education and professor of political science, for a discussion on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other militant forces in the Middle East on Tuesday.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a Baltimore-based art activist group, presented a talk Saturday on using culture jamming and creative digital media to spark dialogue about combating sexual violence.
FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, a Baltimore-based art activist group, presented a talk Saturday on using culture jamming and creative digital media to spark dialogue about combating sexual violence.
The Greek Life Summit brought student representatives from different fraternities and sororities, including Kappa Kappa Gamma, Pi Beta Phi, Phi Mu, Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Alpha Delta Phi (Wawa) among others, together on Oct. 23. Dean of Student Life Terry Martinez organized the summit to discuss each chapter’s goals, policies and philosophies.
