On Monday, Sept. 22 U.S. News and World Report released its 2026 national university rankings for undergraduate programs. Hopkins ranked seventh, tied with Duke University, Northwestern University and the University of Pennsylvania.
On Sept. 18, Hopkins students and employers gathered in the Ralph S. O’Connor Center for Recreation and Well-Being for one of the keystones of the Life Design Lab’s sixth annual Future Fest: the Consulting, Health, Finance and Social Impact Career Fair.
On Sept. 16, Hopkins Votes and the Center for Social Concern hosted their annual National Voter Registration Day event in the Bloomberg Student Center. With over 100,000 state and local elections taking place in 2025, the event provides students resources to help them learn about registering to vote and become civically engaged.
On Monday, Sept. 15 Hopkins students, professionals and affiliates gathered for a webinar titled “Leveraging Strategic Communication and Corporate Diplomacy for Success.” The webinar, which was hosted by Dr. Patricia Hernandez and Hopkins alumna Anna Clark focused on how communications skills can be used to bolster corporate responsibility and global leadership efforts.
On June 2, President Ronald J. Daniels announced a series of budget cuts to offset recent federal funding reductions. These initiatives included pausing annual pay increases for most employees, freezing hiring for new and existing staff positions, slowing capital projects involving research and student life, and reducing discretionary spending on travel, food, supplies and professional services.
There is history to every human being and object, as the past affects the present and the present affects the future. The Undergraduate History Association (UHA) is one such club that emphasizes the integral role of history in society to the Hopkins student body.
The University’s Student Government Association (SGA) convened for a Senate meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 16. Following cabinet and advisor reports, the meeting shifted into bill reading, where the organization reviewed two items concerning National Pancake Day.
On May 30, Hopkins announced that it would end its partnership with Barnes & Noble as the operator of the Hopkins campus store. In its place, the University selected the Follett Higher Education Group to manage the store and support the distribution of Hopkins materials.
2,977 American flags were placed on Decker Quad on Wednesday, Sept. 10 to commemorate the Sept. 11th, 2001, terrorist attacks, in which three airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, with another airplane crashing in Western Pennsylvania. This memorial was completed in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins College Republicans, Democrats and the Hopkins Political Union.
On Sept.10, Charlie Kirk was shot and killed during an event at Utah Valley University. In the wake of the shooting, students at Hopkins joined the conversation of how to deal with political violence. Despite Kirk’s polarizing views, many students expressed a distaste for the assassination, emphasizing morality and the broader consequences of political violence.
Second Year Experience hosted the “Sophomore September Resource Fair” on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. Rooms 204 and 210 in the Bloomberg Student Center were home to an exhibition of the varied Hopkins facilities available for its second-year students.
The Student Government Association (SGA) met on Tuesday, Sept. 2, for its second general body meeting of the semester. They provided members information on how to manage projects, discussed a dining initiative and hosted team building activities.
On Tuesday, Aug. 27 the Student Government Association met for their first weekly meeting of the school year. They discussed Phi Delta Theta’s funding request for their annual Crab Fest, as well as various initiatives for the 2025–26 school year.
On Aug. 25, students, faculty and affiliates attended the First Look Ceremony for the new Bloomberg Student Center on Homewood Campus. Guests toured open-concept areas, sampled dining options set to open this fall and explored private rooms for studying, gaming, dancing and more.
On Wednesday, Aug. 13 the University announced in an email that the Student Center will open Monday, Aug. 25 with regular hours from 7:30 a.m. to midnight. To kick off the event, a “First Look Celebration” will be held at 5 p.m. on opening day, according to an email sent to the student body.
On Friday, June 6, Hopkins filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting Harvard University in its ongoing legal fight with the Trump administration. Through the brief, Hopkins and 23 other U.S. universities have publicly promoted Harvard’s case.
The majority of postdocs voted in favor of union representation by a vote of 560 to 17. Thus, Hopkins’s population of approximately 1,600 postdocs will henceforth be represented by PRO-UAW in collective bargaining with the university.
On Wednesday, May 21, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the administration will begin to “aggressively revoke” the visas of international Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or those studying in “critical fields.”
On June 4, approximately 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel from the Hopkins Hospital spilled into Inner Harbor, Baltimore. Beginning on East Fayette Street, the spill originated from the hospital’s emergency generators when the tanks were overfilled, resulting in the discharge of diesel into various stormwater drains that ultimately led to the Patapsco River.
On May 22, Hopkins conducted the University-wide Commencement ceremony to recognize the achievements of the Class of 2025 and celebrate the completion of their degree requirements. In interviews and responses to a survey conducted by The News-Letter, recent graduates commented on this year's ceremony.
