Sydney Van Morgan has been recruited as the full-time faculty director of the International Studies Program, taking over the responsibilities of Julia Galan, current associate director of the International Studies Program. Morgan will begin in this role on July 1, following a move from Cornell University’s Institute for European Studies.
The Hopkins Organization for Programming (HOP) hosted its second annual baking contest last Thursday in the Glass Pavilion, raising $460 for Relay for Life. The entries — baked by the 36 participating groups — ranged from macaroons to blue frosted cakes to cookies in the shape of swans.
At Tuesday’s Student Government Association (SGA) meeting, members discussed the creation of a new organization called the Undergraduate Student Society for the Promotion of Campus Life, a freshmen mentorship program and a potential prank war against Loyola University Maryland.
Matthew Green, assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, is making waves for leading the team in the computer science department that created Zerocoin, a digital currency meant as an extension of Bitcoin. He presented the product at the 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy in Oakland, Calif.
This year’s Health Disparities Week kicked off on Monday with a lecture from keynote speaker Tamar Mendelson of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her lecture, titled “Promoting Social and Emotional Well Being in Urban Youth,” stressed the social determinants of mental health.
With the sound of wailing babies and jeopardy music blaring in the background, sophomore Connor Sebastian frantically tried to read the articles in front of him while yelling to his teammates about how they should prepare a report on the situation.
After a brief hiatus, the Johns Hopkins Italian Club has been restored under a new management with a new vision for the direction of the club. Above all, the Italian Club is now seeking to take on a novel social dynamic which will make it more accessible to a larger proportion of Hopkins students.
Thomas Dolby, most well known for his 1982 New Wave hit “She Blinded me with Science,” is joining the Hopkins faculty as the first ever Homewood Professor of the Arts. Dolby is currently preparing to take the reigns of the Sound on Film course, which focuses on the creation of film soundtracks.
After petitioning for University approval for the past year and a half, the Aerial Circus Club has officially launched this semester, receiving the Student Government Association’s approval on March 4.
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.
