This fall, students entering Charles Commons will be greeted by smells of chocolate and freshly baked dough emanating from Insomnia Cookies, a national chain offering late-night dessert deliveries that opened on July 22.
Food blog “The Daily Meal” named Hopkins the second best college for food in the United States for 2014.
The Milton S. Eisenhower (MSE) Symposium, an annual student-run speaker series, has announced their fall line-up.
This year’s Orientation Executive Staff organized new programming and activities to introduce students to Hopkins and Baltimore. While maintaining long-standing activities like the Interfaith Center’s Ice Cream Social and the hypnotism show sponsored by the Hopkins Organization for Programming (HOP), Orientation staff also revised existing practices to replace Peer Ambassadors (PAs) with First Year Mentors (FYMs).
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) led a demonstration outside of Johns Hopkins Hospital on Aug. 21 in protest of the school’s use of live animals for surgical training.
The Student Government Association (SGA) met Tuesday evening to vote on the funding bill for the Big Blue Jay Tailgate, co-sponsored by the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity (Beta). SGA also faces a Judiciary case filed against it by several Advocacy and Awareness groups.
After nearly two years of reconstruction, the stretch of N. Charles Street from 29th Street to University Parkway will reopen to vehicular traffic on Sept. 5.
Most people visit the Canary Islands to get a glimpse of sun-soaked beaches, beautiful people and an exotic culture. Traveling to this vacation spot to analyze lung biopsies or teach local doctors English is more unusual.
On Wednesday, President Daniels announced the University’s second annual President's Reading Series.
Nathan Connolly, an assistant professor of history at Hopkins, launched his new book, A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida, on Sunday at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse.
After a 50-year teaching career including 39 years at Hopkins, Dr. Bruce Barnett, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, will retire at the end of 2014.
Professor and mathematician Carey Priebe was one of 36 scholars to receive an Early Concept Grant for Explanatory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) this August.
President Ronald J. Daniels announced via email that the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has officially launched an investigation into the University’s response to incidents of alleged sexual assault and a possible Clery Act violation.
In a class-action settlement with more than 8,000 patients, Johns Hopkins Health System will pay $190 million in insurance funds to women whose pelvic exams may have been videotaped or photographed.
The Hopkins chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha (PIKE) fraternity has been suspended through the end of the 2014-2015 school year due to a number of violations of the student conduct code.
President Clinton spoke at the School of Public Health on Tuesday to kick off a town hall meeting about the fight against prescription drug abuse.
As students protested on the Breezeway to increase transparency between the administration and the student body, Provost Robert Lieberman, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger and Vice Provost for Institutional Equity and Chief Diversity Officer Caroline Laguerre-Brown met with seven students Friday to discuss the University’s sexual violence policy and increasing communication about administrative operations and policies.
A student demonstration was held on the Breezeway on Friday at 12 p.m. to protest the University’s lack of transparency regarding sexual assault complaints. An article published by The Huffington Post on Thursday spurred senior Mats Dreyer to organize the protest.
An article published by The Huffington Post on Thursday evening reproached the Hopkins administration for withholding information from the University community regarding an alleged fraternity gang rape last spring.
With three row-houses set aside and over $300,000 in funds secured from the state of Maryland, once distant plans for creating a library to preserve and teach the history of East Baltimore are now coming into fruition. The East Baltimore Historical Library (EBHL) has garnered support from the University, East Baltimore Development Inc. (EBDI) and East Baltimore Community school, Inc. (EBCS), as well as many other organizations throughout the city.
