The New York Times ranked Hopkins as slightly above average in economic diversity among top American colleges in their first College Access Index.
East Baltimore community members gathered at the Henderson-Hopkins school on Saturday at a forum to discuss how community groups can utilize the school’s shared space in the future.
The Students for Environmental Action (SEA) hosted a Container Gardening Extravaganza. The event’s focus was on reusing materials to plant flowers, morning glory seeds in particular, in decorative pots. The event was held on the Freshman Quad on Wednesday afternoon. The SEA’s aim was to increase awareness of its cause.
Xiaohau Hu, chief research officer and co-chair of Campbell & Co., a Baltimore-based investment firm, gave a talk entitled “Two Envelopes, Siegel’s FX Paradox, and Currency Hedging.”
A new hub for scientific activity, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovative research, Malone Hall opened its doors to Hopkins faculty and students this past month.
The LGBTQ Resource Center, established in Sept. of last year, will be moving into the Homewood Apartments, located near the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA).
The Student Government Association (SGA) discussed funding issues and collaboration with the administration at its Tuesday meeting in the Charles Commons Barber Room.
On Tuesday, about 30 people attended a presentation held in Shaffer 101 by Joshua Epstein, a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine. His lecture, entitled “Agent Zero: Toward Neurocognitive Foundations for Generative Social Science,” described the neuroscience involved in mass social phenomena. The talk focused on Epstein’s book of the same name, which is the seventh book he has written.
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.
