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.
With the sound of wailing babies and jeopardy music blaring in the background, sophomore Connor Sebastian frantically tried to read the articles in front of him while yelling to his teammates about how they should prepare a report on the situation.
After a brief hiatus, the Johns Hopkins Italian Club has been restored under a new management with a new vision for the direction of the club. Above all, the Italian Club is now seeking to take on a novel social dynamic which will make it more accessible to a larger proportion of Hopkins students.
Thomas Dolby, most well known for his 1982 New Wave hit “She Blinded me with Science,” is joining the Hopkins faculty as the first ever Homewood Professor of the Arts. Dolby is currently preparing to take the reigns of the Sound on Film course, which focuses on the creation of film soundtracks.
After petitioning for University approval for the past year and a half, the Aerial Circus Club has officially launched this semester, receiving the Student Government Association’s approval on March 4.
Anna Palazij, director of resource conservation & sustainability at PepsiCo Beverages America, spoke to Hopkins students and faculty last week as part of the M. Gordon Wolman Seminar Series co-hosted by the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE).
More than 350 students danced for eight hours into the early hours of the morning this weekend as part of the fourth annual JHU Dance Marathon, which this year raised $35,000 for the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
Last semester, members of the Academic Committee of the Student Government Association (SGA) approached the deans of the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences (KSAS) and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) regarding the installation of a Latin honors system at Hopkins.
