The Inter-Asian Council (IAC) hosted Karen Gonzalez, the training and development manager for World Relief Immigration Clinic, a legal team that assists immigrants and their family members, on Monday.
For years, Baltimore City Public Schools has faced unprecedented debt, overcrowded classrooms and faculty cuts that result in limited opportunities for students to explore the arts.
This event was organized by the University’s TEDxJHU, a privately licensed branch of the nonprofit TED.
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As part of a weekend of programming around the newly-released HBO documentary Baltimore Rising, the Reginald F. Lewis museum hosted a panel discussion titled “Reclaiming the Future of Black News Media” on Nov. 17. Makayla Gilliam-Price, an activist who is featured in the documentary, moderated the panel.
Hopkins is considered to be the first research institution in the United States. The University stresses that research projects are accessible to undergraduates; however, many students feel that Hopkins could do more to help them pursue research and, ultimately, get published.
Charles University professor Jana Mynářová discussed how the Amarna Letters, a collection of Egyptian tablets discovered in Tell El-Amarna, could explain how Egyptians used and learned cuneiform in a lecture on Thursday, Nov. 9.
The Committee on the Status of Women hosted a discussion on gender equity in Mudd Hall Atrium on Wednesday to review the Committee’s progress and brainstorm future initiatives to promote gender equity at Hopkins.
Former U.S. ambassador to Poland Daniel Fried discussed relations between the U.S. and Russia since the Soviet Union’s collapse at Levering’s Arellano Theater on Thursday, Nov. 9. The International Studies Leadership Council and HopMUN co-hosted the event.
Medical Ethics Discussion Panel (MEDPanel), a student group that explores ethical issues in medicine and healthcare policy, hosted a roundtable discussion titled “The Opioid Epidemic & the Ethics of Pharma” in Charles Commons Salon B on Saturday.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held their yearly Fall Forum on Tuesday to discuss prospective projects and discuss how to encourage political engagement among students.
Hopkins Voice for Choice, a pro-choice student group, hosted a discussion on women’s reproductive rights after a talk given by Ohio Governor John Kasich on Monday. Kasich’s visit was part of the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium (MSE) 2017 speaker series.
Ohio Governor John Kasich gave a talk titled “Two Paths: America United or Divided” as part of the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium (MSE) on Monday.
Hopkins is one of over 100 colleges and universities named in the Paradise Papers, a set of 13.4 million documents that shed light on how the world’s wealthy and elite hide their assets in tax havens.
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute presented “Life Sentences: A Conference on Incarceration and the Humanities” on Nov. 9 and 10. The conference explored the impact of incarceration on society by taking a close look at the literature, film and history of imprisonment.
Discourse, a new student organization that hosts semi-monthly debates among members of the Hopkins community, hosted its second-ever event in Levering Lounge on Tuesday.
The Inter-Asian Council (IAC) hosted activist Mrinalini Chakraborty, the field director of the Women’s March, to speak about her experiences as an Indian activist on Saturday, Nov. 4.
Officer Caesar Goodson, Jr., the driver of the van in which Freddie Gray sustained a fatal spinal cord injury, was cleared Tuesday of all administrative charges brought against him by the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) in connection with Gray’s 2015 arrest and subsequent death.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Chris Lebron spoke about his latest book The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea on Tuesday, Nov. 7 at Red Emma’s Coffeehouse. Lebron will be teaching an undergraduate course titled “The Making of Black Lives Matter” next semester.
In conjunction with the Office of Sustainability and the new group Indigenous Students at Hopkins, the Office of Multicultural Affairs hosted a screening of the 2017 documentary Awake: A Dream At Standing Rock on Tuesday. The screening was part of CultureScape, an annual week of events promoting cultural diversity.
