This past semester, the University community welcomed the addition of a new outreach club on campus, Hopkins Ending Extreme Poverty (HEEP). HEEP is the Hopkins chapter of the larger non-profit organization, NURU.
Seven years ago, the Hopkins Neighborhood Fund was born under the administration of former President William R. Brody to compliment the efforts of the United Way of Central Maryland in improving communities surrounding the University’s campuses. Today, the fund continues to provide fiscal support to organizations and is now accepting its 2014 grant applications, which are due on Feb. 12.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium released its spring speakers line-up on Friday, which features Martin O’Malley, the governor of Maryland, and high-profile professor and public intellectual Cornel West, as well as others.
The University is making progress on ambitious plans to build a new student union or campus center in or around the Mattin Center and transform the intersection of the Homewood Campus and Charles Village, officials said in an interview with The News-Letter last week.
The Hopkins College Democrats and the Hopkins College Republicans are protesting a recent decision by the Student Government Association (SGA) to reclassify three political groups as Advocacy and Awareness organizations, a label that renders the clubs ineligible for annual funding grants.
Freshmen programmers Alec Tabatchnick, Matt Richard, Christian Reotutar and Bertha Hu came out on top this weekend winning the first place prize of $1,024 at the second ever student-led Hopkins hackathon, HopHacks.
Two weeks ago on Jan. 16, the University’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to reappoint President Ronald J. Daniels to his post. Now that his contract with Hopkins has been extended, Daniels will hold his position until 2019.
An unidentified assailant stabbed junior Giovanni Urquilla in the basement of a residence belonging to Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (PIKE) in the first hours of Jan. 19 and the final hours of a fraternity party. The aftermath of the party did not yield answers, and confusion as to the identity and motive of the aggravated assault persists.
According to a report issued this month by a nonprofit group focused on civil rights in higher education, Hopkins is not doing enough to safeguard freedom of speech on campus.
Former Sophomore Class President Alex Koren resigned from his post Monday night due in part to increased time commitments with Hyv, a data analysis system he cofounded. Acting in accord with the SGA’s Constitution, the remaining six class senators voted in former Senator Jahan Mirchandani as Koren’s successor.
Students interested in tropical biology and evolution traveled to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands this past Intersession. The class of 22 students, which was open to all majors, took place on campus from Jan. 4-5 and in Ecuador from the 6th to the 17th. The class was led by instructors Dr. Greg Ball, Dr. Richard Shingles and Professor Farrah Madison.
President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Robert Lieberman were among the first of more than 200 American university and college leaders to denounce the American Studies Association’s (ASA) boycott of Israeli academic institutions late last year.
The seventeenth annual Johns Hopkins University Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) is set to start next week on Feb. 6. The 162 undergraduate staff members of the conference are gearing up to host the largest batch of high school students yet, with a total of 2,079 students registered to attend.
“Nerds need love too,” reads the top of the cover photo of JHU Hook Ups’ Facebook page. The new page hopes to spice up the Hopkins dating scene by connecting users with compatible mates via the popular social media website, Facebook.
At its first meeting of the new year on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA), focused on organizing a myriad of events for the student body with a unifying leitmotiv: getting students involved in their student government as much as possible during the upcoming spring semester.
Students going to the gym for the first time since getting back from winter break will notice an addition to the facility’s offerings in the form of a smoothie stand.
A group of graduate students in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences are rallying to protest the implementation of a plan that will introduce major changes to the graduate program. The school’s Strategic Planning Final Report was released on Nov. 11 to graduate students, who responded with a comprehensive Strategic Plan Response.
Considering the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and the impact of greenhouse gases on climate change, should the United States shift its energy supply away from fossil fuels by replacing them with nuclear power?
In an effort to reduce the University’s carbon footprint, student groups around campus have begun initiatives to combat waste and pollution in new ways.
Encouraging students to share their anonymous stories, the website HopSecret, run by the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW), has spotlighted issues including depression, sexual assault and general hopelessness among the student body.
