The Earth & Planetary Sciences Department hosted climatologist and aerosol specialist Lorraine Remer of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Thursday. The Bromery lecture, held in Olin Hall, was titled, “Aerosols and Climate Forcing: New Thoughts, Future Direction,” and focused on how aerosols contribute to the global heating and cooling cycle.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced Friday that Anna Du will serve as the freshman class president for the Class of 2018. Alex Darwiche, Heidi Woll, Elise Rodrigues, Kwame Alston, Alberto Pepe Muniz and Sarah Zappone were elected to be class senators.
Both Ends Burning (BEB), a non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of orphaned children, presented the award-winning documentary Stuck in Krieger Hall on Sept. 24 as part of its national campus tour.
Yannis Galanakis, a member of the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, gave a lecture entitled “The Diplomat, The Dealer, and The Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in Nineteenth-Century Greece.” The talk took place last Friday to an audience of undergraduate and graduate students as well as patrons of the Baltimore Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA).
For their debut event, the New Political Society (NPS) hosted radical economist Dr. Richard Wolff for a talk entitled “Understanding American Capitalism” on Tuesday in Mudd Hall.
On Monday Bon Appétit and the Residential Advisory Board (RAB) teamed up to host a dining meeting, inviting students to voice their opinions regarding campus dining over a catered dinner.
The Feminist and Queer Theory Reading Group hosted a conversation on Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion as one of its biweekly talks of feminist and queer theory texts on Monday at the Greenhouse.
A collection of student groups and professional offices known as the Healthy Jays hosted their Health Fest on Monday at the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center. The Healthy Jays consists of the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW), Recreational Sports, Housing & Dining, the Meatless Monday campaign and Friday Night Films.
At this Tuesday’s meeting, the Student Government Association (SGA) covered a varied agenda. They discussed several bills and proposals, including Halloween plans, a Deloitte-JHU Diversity Panel, and Blue Jay Spirit Week. They also discussed new initiatives to showcase the SGA’s service to the student body.
The Center for Leadership Education (CLE) will introduce an undergraduate Marketing and Communications minor on Nov. 1.
Christopher Elser, a junior in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, was fatally stabbed during a burglary at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity house on Apr. 17, 2004. Bridget Phillips, a graduate student, was brutally murdered in her off-campus apartment on March 22, 1989. Ten and 25 years later, respectively, both cases remain unsolved.
A controversial “JHU Disorientation Guide” was anonymously released online on Wednesday, sparking an uproar on social media among undergraduate students.
The Baltimore Book Festival filled the Inner Harbor this weekend, drawing crowds with stands of used and discount books, talks by renowned authors, local food vendors and live music. The free festival was sponsored by the Maryland State Arts Council.
University President Ronald J. Daniels admitted in an email to the Hopkins community Wednesday evening that his administration responded inappropriately to an alleged sexual assault at the Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) fraternity house in March of 2013.
Thursday evening, award-winning actor RJ Mitte took to Shriver’s stage to discuss how he overcame fear in his life. As the second speaker in the Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium, the 22-year-old actor is best known for his portrayal of Walter “Flynn” White Jr. in AMC’s popular TV show Breaking Bad.
More than 400,000 people filled New York’s streets on Sunday for the People’s Climate March, the largest climate march in history.
As part of its ongoing efforts this year to fight alcohol abuse, the newly formed Alcohol Strategy Group, led by Vice Provost for Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger, is strengthening efforts to reach out to Greek Life and other student organizations that hold off-campus events.
The White House launched the “It’s On Us” public awareness campaign on Friday to encourage students — and especially male students — to actively prevent sexual assault on college campuses.
At its weekly meeting on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) passed a viewpoint neutrality bill, which will allow all student groups to apply for equivalent amounts of funding. Although SGA can still deny a group’s request for additional funding, they cannot do so on the basis of the group’s agenda or mission.
The Center for Advanced Media Studies; the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Political Science Department collaborated to host “Politics, Family and Precarity Cinema in Winter’s Bone” in Mergenthaler Hall on Friday.
