At 9 o’clock on Tuesday evening, the Hopkins community celebrated the ninth annual Lighting of the Quads. More than 863 students RSVPed for the event on Facebook, and by 8:45 p.m. hundreds of students had gathered on Keyser Quad for what has become an anticipated Hopkins tradition.
The Johns Hopkins Innovation Factory, the JHU Association for Computing Machinery and StartUP! Hopkins hosted Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of web platform Reddit, for a talk in Shriver Hall on Tuesday evening.
Just three days before Thanksgiving on Nov. 25, student members of the Bethel Campus Fellowship (BCF) hosted an event dedicated to showing appreciation to those who work on the Homewood campus. The event, titled “Saved to Serve,” featured BCF members dispersing in three groups to different areas of the University in search of workers to whom they could give their gratitude.
In honor of “Giving Tuesday,” members of Step Up stationed themselves on the Keyser Quad during the Lighting of the Quads ceremony this past Tuesday in an attempt to raise awareness about the importance of philanthropy on Homewood Campus.
Two weeks ago, Delegate Mary Washington visited Hopkins for the Sociology Department’s annual fall luncheon. A graduate of the the University’s doctoral program in sociology, Washington represents the 43rd legislative district in Baltimore, which includes neighborhoods such as Waverly and Guilford as well as parts of the Homewood Campus. She is seeking reelection next year.
Faculty, administrators and students across all nine schools of the University are currently engaged in what has been a two-year long project of self-study. This undertaking is in preparation for the University’s upcoming reaccreditation by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, a process that occurs once every 10 years.
For the first time in 19 years, there was a tie at the Pete’s Grille Annual Pancake Eating Contest.
Right in the nick of time to ease the stress of finals period, Johnny Dough, a late-night baked goods delivery service created and managed by Hopkins seniors Jimmy Lin and Christina Socias, will begin accepting online orders at midnight on Dec. 9.
Your coffee order is music to Ryan Botwinik’s ears. No, seriously — the Daily Grind’s newest barista is largely the reason the Brody Learning Commons Café’s employees have taken to singing their customers’ coffee orders this semester.
Two members of the Central Intelligence Agency came to campus to speak on Tuesday evening to the Hopkins chapter of oSTEM about their experiences as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people working in the fields of science and technology.
The week before Thanksgiving break, JHU Dance Marathon (DM) had its Reveal Week, kicking off registration and unveiling the theme for its eight-hour long event on March 1.
Daphne Koller, one of the founders of the online-learning system Coursera, spoke this past Wednesday afternoon in Hodson Hall. Koller talked to students about the merits of her new learning structure, and about how Coursera allows for people all over the world to gain access to top-tier university learning
“What does it mean to be haunted by loss?”
Voice for Choice (VFC), a non-harassment, bipartisan pro-choice group, was officially approved as a student group by the Student Government Association (SGA) last week. The foundation for the group formed last year in response to the pro-life group Voice for Life (VFL).
“Mystics live outside of time. Novelists live in it.”
Throughout this week, several student groups are coordinating efforts to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan, which swept through the Philippines last week.
The Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure Program (SHIP) and the University’s Sustainability Network hosted what was billed as the 2nd Annual Future of Hopkins Symposium on Tuesday evening in Maryland Hall, despite the fact that not much was actually said about the future at the event.
On Tuesday night, Dean of the Krieger School Katherine S. Newman and Dean of the School of Education David W. Andrews led a conversation in Boston on the future of American cities as part of the University’s capital campaign, “Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins.” The event focused on the University’s new Institute for the American City — one of President Ronald J. Daniels’ Signature Initiatives — and the role universities can play in redeveloping urban cities and schools.
The Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI) hosted activist Carmi Kobren to speak about the humanitarian international project Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) this past Tuesday in Shaffer Hall. Kobren is the sister of the late Dr. Ami Cohen, the project’s founder.
This past Friday, the Public Health Student Forum (PHSF) teamed up with a number of health-related clubs on campus to host a Personal Health Fair in Charles Commons Salon C. Groups represented at the fair included Stressbusters, the Center for Health Education and Wellness (CHEW), Preventative Education and Empowerment for Peers (PEEPs) and the Student Health and Wellness Center, also known as HelWell.
