On Wednesday, Phi Mu hosted its annual philanthropy event, Mr. Phi Mu, an interfraternity competition. The event benefited the Katie Oppo Research Fund, which endows ovarian cancer research at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Admission was $5, and each attendee got five votes.
Yik Yak is a relatively new social media platform that allows users to post their opinions anonymously and “up-vote” or “down-vote” posts they like or dislike. The app has spread to colleges across the country and allows students to express their feelings, which can be funny as well as brutally honest.
While many left Baltimore during the three-day Fall Break, around 20 faculty and graduate students gathered for a workshop titled “Law and the Local” on Friday afternoon.
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation will provide Hopkins with $5 million, enabling the University to work with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and the Maryland Film Festival to renovate the Parkway Theater. The theater, located near the corner of Charles Street and North Avenue in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment District, is slated to open as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Film Center in 2016.
Francis in the Schools, an educational festival for underserved urban children, was hosted for the first time on the East Coast at the Peabody Institute for more than 600 children on Friday.
Enabled by the University-wide Gateway Science Initiative, the physics department has begun offering an Active Learning (AL) variant of General Physics I. It is now in its second year of operation. The course was developed in part through site visits to other universities, including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and North Carolina State University. The class is heavily modeled on MIT’s Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) physics courses.
On Monday, the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute invited Dr. Richard Krauzlis to speak about his new research findings.
John W. Rawlins III joined the Johns Hopkins community on Oct. 1 as the special assistant to Associate Vice Provost and Dean of Student Life Terry Martinez.
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.
