Thiruvendran Vignarajah, the Deputy Attorney General for the State of Maryland and candidate for State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, gave a talk called “Justice for All in the Age of Trump.” The event was hosted by Hopkins College Democrats on Wednesday.
The Student Government Association (SGA) discussed mental health on campus, sustainability initiatives and upcoming events at their weekly meeting on Tuesday.
A team of computer scientists at the Johns Hopkins Center for Language and Speech Processing recently received a $10.7 million federal grant to develop technology to translate obscure languages. Currently there are only well-established translation interfaces, like Google Translate, for the 100 most commonly used languages.
Lambda Epsilon Mu (LEM), the Latino pre-health honor society at Hopkins, organized a Health Professionals Roundtable on Tuesday, Oct. 24. The event took place in Charles Commons and featured four health professionals from underrepresented backgrounds: Dr. Lisa DeCamp, Dr. David Benavides, Sarahi Juarez and Alexandre Medina.
As part of the Portuguese Program Speaker Series, Johanna Richlin, an assistant research professor in the anthropology department, spoke on Wednesday about the religious identities of Brazilian immigrants in a talk titled “The Gods of the Diaspora: Brazilian Migrant Faith in Comparative Perspective.”
University President Ronald J. Daniels sent an email to Homewood students, faculty and staff to announce increased efforts from the University to bolster security on and around the Homewood Campus on Monday after another armed robbery near campus on Sunday.
Unite Here Local 7 (Unite Here), the union that represents subcontracted dining workers on Homewood Campus, held a rally at the Inner Harbor on Thursday, Oct. 19 after a recent contract negotiation on behalf of workers at Horseshoe Baltimore, a casino near Camden Yards.
Since August 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people, one of the many ethnic minorities in Myanmar (Burma), have migrated into the neighboring country of Bangladesh.
Many students struggle to find a space to study in Brody Learning Commons or the Milton S. Eisenhower Library (MSE), especially during exam season. Often, students save themselves seats by putting down their belongings and then leaving for extended periods of time, preventing others from using these spaces.
The Homewood Museum hosted the latest event in the Architectural Lecture Series last Monday evening with a talk about the history of slave life on the Homewood Estate.
Hopkins Feminists and Students for Environmental Action (SEA) tabled an event titled “Sustainable Sex” on Monday as part of a larger series of “Feminist Mondays,” which aims to call attention to the issues intersecting feminism and environment sustainability.
Reverend Daryl Kearney discussed the intersections of race, faith and politics at the Bunting-Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center on Wednesday. The talk was the first part in a speaker series hosted by the JHU Social Justice and Equity Collective.
Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst, spoke about U.S. involvement in the Middle East at a talk titled “Why America Misunderstands the Middle East” on Wednesday. The Hopkins chapter of the John Quincy Adams Society, a student group that seeks to provide a nonpartisan perspective on international politics, hosted the event.
The Portuguese Language Program and the Program for Latin American Studies hosted researcher Richard J. Norby to speak on Monday about his upcoming project in the Amazon rainforest.
Soprano and alumna of the Peabody Institute Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick spoke about her new memoir, The Encore: A Memoir in Three Acts, at Barnes & Noble on Thursday, Oct. 12. She shared her experiences being a professional singer after receiving a double lung transplant and fighting cancer.
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, spoke with John Eligon, a national correspondent who writes about race relations for The New York Times, as part of “Get With the Times,” an event co-hosted by The Times and the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications.
The University hosted a public screening of the documentary Step in Schafler auditorium on Monday, Oct. 16. The documentary was filmed during the 2015-2016 school year and focuses on three high school students, Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, and Tayla Solomon. Grainger is a current sophomore at Hopkins.
The Homewood Museum kicked off its Architectural Lecture Series with a talk by Bryan Blundell, the president of Dell Corporation, an architecture preservation firm, on Monday. This year’s theme for the series is African American Dwellings in the Antebellum Period.
The Wilmer Eye Institute (Wilmer), an eye clinic at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, celebrated World Sight Day last Thursday. Founded by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), the day was dedicated to directing attention to blindness and vision impairment.
Salima Ikram, a visiting professor of Egyptology from Yale University, held a talk on Egyptian food and drink in Mudd Hall on Tuesday. Ikram studied Egyptology and Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College and earned her Master’s and Ph.D. from Cambridge University.
