More than 2,100 recent graduates returned to Homewood from Friday through Sunday for Young Alumni Weekend (YAW) to reconnect and network with their former classmates.
The Johns Hopkins Hospital unveiled the renovated Nelson/Harvey buildings, which include 136 new private patient rooms and sleeping accommodations and respite areas for patients’ family members, at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday.
For the past two months, junior Mengli Shi has hauled giant white trash bags filled with cereal boxes, plastic bottles and aluminum cans across the street. She lives in The Marylander Apartments at 3501 St. Paul St., which doesn’t have a recycling program for its residents. But a bill that Governor Martin O’Malley signed will require apartment complexes in the state to have recycling bins by Nov. 1.
Professor Colin Milburn of the University of California at Davis presented his paper, titled “Long Live Play: The PlayStation Network and Technogenic Life,” on Oct. 9. The talk was part of a weekly colloquial series for graduate students in the departments of History of Science and Technology and History of Medicine, but it was open to all members of the Hopkins community. The series hosted speakers on a wide variety of topics at both the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses.
Students Educating and Empowering for Diversity (SEED) held its first event of the year, called “Domestic Violence in the Media,” on Oct. 9. The SEED team led a discussion on the misconceptions about domestic violence in the media and how they lead to societal stigmas.
Executive President Janice Bonsu began Tuesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting by telling the members about a new volunteering opportunity.
As part of the Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Steven Squyres held a talk titled “Science Results from the Mars Exploration Mission,” which focuses on his work with the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) program for NASA.
Nearly 1,300 students and faculty members participated in community service projects at the the sixth annual President’s Day of Service (PDOS), which took place Saturday at dozens of locations across Baltimore.
Benny Lewis, world traveler and language connoisseur, visited the Johns Hopkins Barnes & Noble on Sunday to sign copies of his book, Fluent in 3 Months. As part of his book tour, Lewis is visiting every state and province in the U.S. and Canada, but Hopkins has special significance for the author.
Benny Lewis, world traveler and language connoisseur, visited the Johns Hopkins Barnes & Noble on Sunday to sign copies of his book, Fluent in 3 Months. As part of his book tour, Lewis is visiting every state and province in the U.S. and Canada, but Hopkins has special significance for the author.
On Oct. 13, the German and Romance Languages and Literatures department hosted a lecture entitled “My Two Italies,” which featured Joseph Luzzi, a professor of Italian Studies at Bard College. Luzzi’s lecture was based on his recently published memoir of the same title, which describes his experience as the son of Italian immigrants and a scholar of Italian Studies.
Hopkins students celebrated the second annual Hoptoberfest, a series of events and activities on campus that spanned from Oct. 7-12. Hoptoberfest is sponsored by the Hopkins Parents Fund and directed by the Office of Student Life.
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I.D.E.A.L. Voting Club, a new student forum founded by sophomore Liam Haviv for nonpartisan political discussion, is seeking to change the way students form and share their political opinions.
The Bamboo Café, which offers a variety of Asian foods, opened in the Mattin Center on Oct. 1, taking the place of the Silk Road Café.
California’s newly passed “Affirmative Consent” Sexual Assault Bill, which requires “affirmative, conscious, and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity,” has sparked debate on how sexual violence investigations on college campuses should be conducted.
The third annual Project Homeless Connect (PHC) event drew more than 175 University affiliates to help Baltimore’s homeless population access legal, health and educational services at the Baltimore Convention Center on Oct. 2.
On Saturday, the South Asian Students at Hopkins (SASH) hosted their first major event of the fall semester, the SASH Class Bash. The event consisted of small competitions to promote competition between the freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes.
