This past Monday saw the revival of the Hopkins Commemoration Ball. The event, which hasn’t taken place since 2001, commemorates the school’s founding and the swearing in of the University’s first president, Daniel Coit Gilman.
Blue Jay Bikes, a new advocacy and awareness club dedicated to improving bicycle policies, infrastructure and awareness on campus and in the greater Baltimore area, discussed the University community’s attitude towards bicycles at its first meeting last Friday.
On Feb. 17, University President Ronald J. Daniels and Provost Robert Lieberman named Peter Agre, Kathryn Edin and Carol Greider as the first of 50 Bloomberg Distinguished Professors.
Senior Stephen Filippone was selected as one of 40 nationwide recipients of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a prestigious honor awarded to outstanding students from outside the United Kingdom.
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Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, a rumored 2016 presidential candidate, spoke to an audience in Shriver Hall on Wednesday evening as the first speaker of the 2014 Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS). The speech was followed by both a question and answer session and a reception in the Clipper Room hosted by the Hopkins College Democrats.
Last Wednesday, Hopkins hosted a screening of Geraldine Ferraro: Paving the Way in Hodson Hall. Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Donna Zaccaro, director of the documentary and the daughter of Ferraro, were in attendance and answered questions from the audience after the showing.
Next Monday, Feb. 24, the University will hold a Commemoration Ball in honor of the school’s founding. The official anniversary of the school’s founding falls on Feb. 22 each year — the date that the University’s first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, was sworn in.
A record number of women — 303 in total — registered for Panhellenic sorority recruitment this year. According to the University’s Coordinator of Greek Life & Orientation Rachel Drennen, 275 women registered last year.
On Sunday, the Black Student Union (BSU) hosted an event during which students, faculty and staff discussed the racial climate at Hopkins.
While many professors pursue academic endeavors outside of the classroom, such ventures usually entail writing articles or conducting laboratory research; Professor John Driscoll’s undertaking, however, is a different, full-time career.
This weekend, the JHU Politik will be launching a new video series in addition to its regular online magazine.
Valentine’s Day was a week-long affair on the Homewood Campus with conversation hearts, condom-grams and romantic Pandora stations ubiquitous. Beginning with a love-themed Sterling Brunch on Sunday and culminating in a second snow day on Friday, the Valentine’s Day activities were a welcome distraction from school for many students.
Dr. Robert Bagdorf, vice president of worldwide business development in biopharmaceuticals search and evaluation at Pfizer, spoke in Hackerman Hall on Monday about marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
Now in its 55th year, the Tutorial Project enables Hopkins students to reach out and make a difference in the lives of children in the Baltimore community.
President Ronald J. Daniels was listed as the 30th highest-paid private college president on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual list of executive compensation at private colleges. The list of 2011 executive compensations was published in December just before the Board of Trustees voted to extend Daniels’ contract until 2019.
This year, for the first time in the University’s history, students signing up for on-campus housing will be able to choose to register in gender inclusive units.
Between Thursday and Sunday, the Johns Hopkins Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) hosted a total of 1,680 high school students from all over the world at the Hilton Baltimore, making JHUMUNC XVII the largest conference in the history of the undergraduate organization.
On Feb. 8, the brothers of the Hopkins chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity posted a parody of The Wolf of Wall Street trailer on Vimeo.com, a video sharing website. Within hours, it had been picked up by other sites, such as TotalFratMove.com, where it was proclaimed to be “so damn good” and given “two thumbs way up.”
Earlier this month, over 100 students gathered in Hackerman Hall for the first ever Hopkins Robotics Club meeting. Surprised but excited by the large turnout, the club’s executive board members have already had to change their course of action.
