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.
In response to President Obama’s new White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, the administration announced last Friday that it is establishing a Sexual Violence Working Group to improve the University’s policy about and responses to reports of sexual crimes.
President Ronald J. Daniels announced last week in an email to the Hopkins community that Dean Katherine Newman, the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS), has been appointed the next provost and senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Sierra Leonean writer and human rights activist Ishmael Beah spoke Monday as the final speaker of the President’s Reading Series. Beah, a former child soldier who fought in his country’s civil war in the early 1990s, discussed his childhood and writing career and read from his new novel, Radiance of Tomorrow.
Since 1880, the University has awarded 470 Honorary Degrees to accomplished leaders from a variety of fields. This year seven of such leaders will receive an honorary degree and join the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Cosby. The 2014 recipients include Susan Wojcicki, Norman Augustine, Taylor Branch, Fred Lazarus, Edith Windsor, Pamela Flaherty and Roberta Kaplan.
As the closing event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Hopkins Sexual Assault Resource Unit (SARU) sponsored a lecture by feminist writer Sara Alcid titled SARU Presents Law and Order: SVU vs. Reality on Friday in Mudd Hall.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held its final meeting of the school year on Tuesday in Mason Hall. The meeting’s main focus was on modifying the “Resolution Regarding a Change in the Johns Hopkins University Sexual Violence Policy.”
Professor Erica Schoenberger will be teaching a new class next fall called Environment and Society. This course will explore the environmental implications of societal decisions and resource use.
Hopkins faculty and visiting experts from across the country came together at Mason Hall on Saturday as part of a Program of Latin American Studies conference titled Shifting Portrait: Latinos, Public Health, Inequality.
Thirty-two finalist teams competed for a total of $72,000 at the 15th annual Business Plan Competition on Friday.
