Sarah Turner, a professor of economics at the University of Virginia, spoke in Hodson Hall on March 27 as part of the JHU Social Policy Seminar Series. The talk, which was sponsored by the School of Public Health’s Institute for Health and Social Policy, delved into the details of Turner’s recent research into the behavior of low-income but high-achieving students pursuing higher education.
Vice Provost for Student Affairs Kevin Shollenberger emailed the University community on March 27 to announce that Susan Boswell, dean of student life, will be stepping down to take on a new role as his special advisor on July 1. Terry Martinez, the interim dean of students at Columbia University, will take over as the new dean of student life.
Decision day arrived on Friday for the 22,281 high school students who applied regular decision to Hopkins. Out of that large pool of applicants, 3,070 students were accepted into the Class of 2018.
On Wednesday, the Committee for Student Elections (CSE) hosted a debate for candidates running for Student Government Association (SGA) executive board positions. Two tickets of candidates are running, in addition to one independent candidate contending for treasurer.
Hundreds of students gathered in Shriver Hall on Tuesday night for this year’s Presidential Event, a debate between General Michael Hayden, former director of the CIA and NSA, and David Cole, Georgetown professor of constitutional law. The debate was presented by the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) and moderated by Chief White House Correspondent for CBS News Major Garrett.
Operating as an advertising company called AdHop Creative, students in an advertising and marketing communications course launched a three week advertising campaign for web-based company MindSumo on March 24 on the Homewood campus.
Hopkins hosted the annual B’more Proud LGBTQIA Leadership Summit this past Saturday in the Glass Pavilion. Several hundred people attended the conference, which was themed “Breaking Boundaries: The Intersection of our Identities.” Those who came for the event included both students and visitors from the surrounding area. The event featured two keynote speakers, Julia Serano and Zach Wahls, who spoke about their personal experiences combating prejudice.
Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton spoke to members of the Hopkins community in Shriver Hall on March 13 as a part of this spring’s Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) speakers series. Bolton, who represented the U.S. at the U.N. from 2005 to 2006, spent the majority of his speech denouncing President Obama’s foreign policy platform and criticizing the president for not placing national security at the top of his priority list.
On Wednesday, March 26, the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) hosted philosopher, political commentator and activist Cornel West in Shriver Hall.
Student members of Voice for Choice (VFC) traveled to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to join thousands of activists from all over the country as they protested the Hobby Lobby contraception case before the Supreme Court this week. The group attended the rally with Planned Parenthood, whose Towson office assisted the group in organizing their trip.
On Tuesday, the University named YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki as this year’s commencement speaker. Wojcicki has been named among Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business,” Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women,” and Vanity Fair’s 50 “leading innovators [that] shake the foundations of their industries,” according to an article by The Hub. Prior to becoming CEO at YouTube, she served as senior vice president of advertising and commerce at Google after joining the company as its first marketing manager in 1999.
The first ever Sophomore Formal was held on March 13 at the National Aquarium at the Inner Harbor. The Student Government Association (SGA) provided transportation to and from the venue along with catered finger foods and a DJ.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) announced today that it would be creating an award in memory of alumna Anne Smedinghoff and that the inaugural recipient is education advocate Shabana Basij-Rasikh.
A video accusing The Daily Grind café in Brody Learning Commons of falsely advertising its cup sizes attracted student attention when it made the rounds on Facebook earlier this month.
Members of the University’s ROTC program sat down with The News-Letter this week to talk about winning the 2013 MacArthur Award last month.
Thanksgiving Break has been extended to one week for all future academic years, according to Edward Scheinerman, vice dean for education at the Whiting School of Engineering.
Jonathan Bagger, the vice provost for graduate and postdoctoral programs and special projects, has been appointed as the next director of TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Biology and Genetics and Director of the JHMI Microarray Core Facility Forrest Spencer is teaching a class at Homewood this semester as a part of the Gateway Sciences Initiative. The class, which is specifically designed for freshmen, is titled “Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution.” This is the second year the class has been offered.
On March 13, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences held an event celebrating the humanities in Gilman Hall. Several alumni attended the first-of-its-kind event, which included student performances, presentations from professors and an opening address from Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Katherine Newman titled “Creativity and Reflection: The Arts and Humanities as a Calling.”
Nine undergraduate students spent this past spring break traveling through Austria on a trip entitled, “Celebrate Jewish Life in Vienna: Past, Present and Future,” which was sponsored by the Hopkins Hillel. From March 13 to 23, the students explored Jewish life past and present throughout the city, learning about the impacts of the Holocaust as well as what life is like for Jews in Austria today.
