A record 27,000 runners participated in the Baltimore Running Festival on Saturday. The festival, now in its 14th year, consists of a marathon, a half marathon, a team relay, a wheelchair race, a 5K run and a Kids Fun Run. An estimated 25,000 people participated in these races.
The Student Government Association (SGA) discussed its plans for student outreach, reviewed new student groups, reformed its What To Fix (WTF) Hopkins page, appointed new members to the Judiciary board and the Committee on Student Elections (CSE) and temporarily suspended sections of the SGA constitution while reviewing compliance with those sections.
On Friday afternoon, an Insomnia Cookies employee was found dead at the store location inside Charles Commons.
Phi Mu won its third consecutive Panhellenic Powderpuff tournament on the Practice Field Sunday, defeating all four other Panhellenic sororities in the annual flag football competition.
Construction will begin on an apartment and retail complex in the open lot at the corner of St. Paul and 33rd Streets in April, the University announced Wednesday.
Former National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon joined Professor Steven David in Shriver Hall to discuss his career and his views on current foreign policy Wednesday evening. As the third speaker in this year’s Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium, Donilon chronicledhis career in politics and policy and then transitioned to discussing his views on current foreign policy issues.
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.
Trigger warning: suicide
