Quiñones-Hinojosa to speak at graduation
By RACHEL WITKIN | April 11, 2013Hopkins neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa will speak at graduation on Thursday, May 23.
Hopkins neuroscientist and neurosurgeon Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa will speak at graduation on Thursday, May 23.
Former Senator Rick Santorum addressed the Middle East today and the threat of “radical Islam” last night in the fourth event of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) spring lecture series.
Anne Smedinghoff, a 2009 graduate of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Hopkins and a U.S. Diplomat in the public affairs division of the State Department, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan on Saturday.
Starting on April 5, the undergraduate student body will have the opportunity to vote on whether or not to make Hopkins a smoke-free campus. Although the vote is only to gauge student interest, not on whether smoking should be currently banned, it presents an opportunity to express your opinion on an Hopkins policy. The vote is open until Tuesday, April 9, and will be available online.
Construction of the Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, an expansion to the Mudd/Levi biology complex, is on schedule for its final completion on June 1, 2013.
Former Ambassador and Presidential Envoy to Iraq Lewis Paul Bremer spoke last night about the current state of the Middle East, his time in Iraq and how Iraq has progressed ten years after the war’s inception as a part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium spring lecture series.
An unidentified SGA Senator leaked emails containing private correspondences regarding Voice for Life v. JHU SGA from within the SGA Listserv to a non-SGA member. This member then forwarded these emails to both the Editors-in-Chief of The News-Letter and Voice for Life President Andrew Guernsey through an anonymous account on March 27.
On March 21, a group of six Hopkins students finished in first place in the Strategic Allocation of Business Resources Competition (SABRE) competition at the American Marketing Association’s 35th Annual International Collegiate Conference.
Last Wednesday President Ron Daniels sent an email to the University community announcing the appointment of Peter Pronovost and Jeremy Nathans as Hopkins’s newest Gilman Scholars.
The Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) has determined that the Voice for Life’s proposed “sidewalk counseling” activities are not in violation of the University policy on harassment, contrary to the SGA Executive Board’s decision.
With the elections for SGA Executive Board beginning this Friday, candidates of the two tickets have been campaigning tirelessly over the past week.
This week, Office of the Dean of Student Life and the Counseling Center introduced a new SafeLine program on campus to assist students affected by sexual assault or unsafe relationships. The SafeLine went live on Tuesday and is staffed by professionals in the Counseling Center.
Kappa Alpha Theta (Theta) will join the Panhellenic Council next academic year as the fifth sorority on campus, four years after University officials revoked the sorority’s charter at Hopkins following a series of disciplinary infractions.
Former Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum will be the next featured speaker in the lineup for the Foreign Affair Symposium's due to Liz Cheney’s cancellation for personal reasons.
Hopkins admitted a record-low 15.31 percent of 19,166 regular decision applicants to the Class of 2017 last week.
The human trafficking awareness event series, “Not on My Block,” will be taking place at Hopkins in the upcoming weeks. The focus of the events will be to educate students on the realities of human trafficking. The series is being hosted by The Hopkins InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (HCF), Students Educating and Empowering for Diversity (SEED) and Amnesty International USA.
Hopkins’s Global Blue Strategies, an advertising class that has transformed into a full-service marketing agency, was selected as one of 20 universities to partake in the Honda Civic Marketing Challenge. The class has been working to create an advertising campaign for the 2013 Honda Civic Sedan entitled Recreate a Classic.
On Tuesday, March 26, the Global Water Program and Take Back the Tap sponsored a screening of Into the Gyre, an award-winning documentary about the effects of plastic pollution on the world’s marine ecosystems.
Over Spring Break, a group of 10 students from Hopkins and 11 students from Princeton University traveled to Argentina to engage in community outreach and cultural immersion.
Yesterday evening, the Hellenic Students Association (HSA) and the Johns Hopkins Hellenic Association hosted an event celebrating the bond between the Greek and African American communities at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.