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Revised Orientation welcomes new students

By Jessica Kim Cohen | September 4, 2014

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).

Animal use sparks protest at med school

By SARI AMIEL | September 4, 2014

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.

Sophomore studies on Canary Islands

By ALEX FINE | September 4, 2014

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.

Connolly writes about Florida under Jim Crow

By MARY KATE TURNER | September 4, 2014

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.

Administration officials, student leaders discuss sexual violence policy, transparency

By EMILY HERMAN | May 2, 2014

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.

Library to be built next to Henderson-Hopkins school

By ELI WALLACH | May 1, 2014

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.

University establishes anti-assault group

By EMILY HERMAN | May 1, 2014

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.

Dean Newman named provost at UMass, Amherst

By AUDREY COCKRUM | May 1, 2014

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.

Beah closes yearlong Reading Series

By ALEX FINE | May 1, 2014

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.

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