Anna Palazij, director of resource conservation & sustainability at PepsiCo Beverages America, spoke to Hopkins students and faculty last week as part of the M. Gordon Wolman Seminar Series co-hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE).
More than 350 students danced for eight hours into the early hours of the morning this weekend as part of the fourth annual JHU Dance Marathon, which this year raised $35,000 for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Last semester, members of the Academic Committee of the Student Government Association (SGA) approached the deans of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS) and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) regarding the installation of a Latin honors system at Hopkins.
Tuition for full-time Hopkins undergraduate students for the 2013-2014 academic year stands at $45,470 — a figure $15,376 greater than the national average for private non-profit four year Universities, which the CollegeBoard reports to be $30,094.
Last week, the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW) and the Counseling Center co-sponsored a series of events for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAW). Spanning from Feb. 23 to Mar. 1, the week included displays of positive messages around campus, do-it-yourself (DIY) projects and social media campaigns.
Dr. Alison Papadakis, who will join the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department this fall, gave a lecture on Wednesday evening titled “Adolescent Angst: Self and Peer Factors Related to Depression and Social Anxiety in Adolescents.”
Approximately 640 freshmen students and 60 faculty and administrative members dined together at the fifth annual Freshman High Table Dinner. Held Tuesday evening in a transformed Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center gymnasium, the event was sponsored by the Student Government Association (SGA) to promote unity among the Hopkins class of 2017.
Robyn Rodriguez, an associate professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Davis, gave a seminar on Wednesday night as part of a series of talks in the Sociology Department this year. She spoke to an audience of about 20 people in Mergenthaler Hall on her 2010 book, “Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World.”
In a hopeful instance of déjà vu, a second baby born with HIV has been possibly cured of the virus after intense and early post-birth treatment — by a team including Dr. Deborah Persaud, a physician at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
The Hopkins Black History Month Committee wrapped up its month-long series of events by hosting Katrina Bell-McDonald, an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, for a lecture on Feb. 27 at the Office of Multicultural Affairs.
Last Friday night, the Chinese Student Association (CSA) hosted its belated Lunar New Year Banquet in the Glass Pavilion. Approximately 250 students attended in observance of the beginning of the new Chinese year, the Year of the Horse.
The College Board announced major changes to the design of the SAT on Wednesday afternoon, including letting students opt-out of the essay, combining the critical reading and writing sections, and offering a computer-based version of the test for the first time. The changes were seen by many educators as a response to the growing popularity of the ACT, the rival standardized college admissions test.
The first Student-Faculty Social of the semester was held in Levering Hall last Thursday. The social aimed to create a relaxed setting in which students and professors could get to know one another on a more personal level.
JHU Confessions, a Facebook page featuring anonymous, student-submitted confessions, was temporarily deactivated Monday in order to fix the posting system that turned the page into a hub for cyberbullying and controversial posts about race and sexual orientation.
Over 700 students came to Shriver Hall last night for the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS)’s second event, hosting Jocelyn Richard, a features editor at the The Onion. The event was co-sponsored by The HOP as a part of their goal to provide more free events for students.
On Saturday, Hopkins hosted its first TEDx event at Hackerman Hall. The event featured eight speakers, with backgrounds ranging from music to neuroscience. All the speeches had the common theme of “firsts.”
This Tuesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting focused on two main issues: reactions to an article about Bon Appétit featured in last week’s issue of The News-Letter and an ongoing debate over whether Hopkins should adopt a Latin honors system.
Last Tuesday, the Hopkins chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) hosted the first event of Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW), an international series of events intended to raise awareness about Israel’s policies toward Palestinians, which they view as constituting apartheid. The week seeks to garner support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to use political and economic pressure on Israel to end Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
On Feb. 18, junior Aryel Abramovitz found himself in a bind. On B level of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library two hours before class, he was unable to connect to the Hopkins internet network.
