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.
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Awareness Coalition at Hopkins and JHU Student Life hosted sexual assault awareness activist and speaker Angie Epifano yesterday evening.
Five Hopkins-affiliated female leaders spoke about their experiences as students and in the workplace at the inaugural Summit for Emerging Women Leaders held on Saturday in Charles Commons. The event was organized by the Women’s Initiative for Social Equity (WISE).
The national Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity announced on Friday that it was banning pledging for new members. The policy change will affect all SAE chapters, including the chapter at Hopkins. The decision was prompted by a recent spate of deaths linked to hazing and alcohol consumption at SAE chapters across the nation.
Hopkins students reacted this week to the occupation of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine by Russian armed forces. Russia seized the region after Ukraine’s Russian-backed president fled the country following a violent crackdown on protesters demanding closer relations with the European Union. With the region now split between a Ukrainian-speaking west tilted towards Europe and a Russian-speaking east, the U.S. fears Moscow is trying reassert influence over parts of the former Soviet Union.
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.
