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May 13, 2024

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Weber analyzed social factors that led to Trump winning the election.

Prof. talks structural causes of Trump’s rise

Cynthia Weber, international relations professor at the University of Sussex and the author of Queer international relations: sovereignty, sexuality, and the will to knowledge, gave a talk titled “Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will of Trump” on Tuesday evening in Mergenthaler Hall.


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Berchini offered advice to educators on how to teach about racism.

School of Ed. seminar dissects white privilege

As part of the Urban Health series on understanding racism and white privilege, the Johns Hopkins School of Education held a seminar open to the general public on Wednesday, Feb. 22 led by Christina Berchini.


SGA votes to support fossil fuel divestment

The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a fossil fuel divestment resolution, an entrepreneurship funding bill, a bylaws amendment for student groups, and the FIJI Islander funding bill at its weekly meeting in Charles Commons on Tuesday.


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Kelli Johnson is the new pre-professional advisor.

Homewood welcomes new pre-professional advisor

Kelli Johnson was named the new director of pre-professional advising at Hopkins in late January, taking over from outgoing director David Verrier, who is retiring. Johnson has spent the last four years as the assistant dean and director for pre-professional advising at New York University (NYU).


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The 8:32 Society held its first symposium on faith and scholarship.

8:32 Society explores the crossroads of faith and vocation

The 8:32 Society, which strives to provide a network for Hopkins affiliates to understand their professions in the context of their Christian faith, hosted its inaugural Symposium on Faith, Reason and Vocation last Saturday. Students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered in Levering Hall to discuss the challenges and opportunities that Christians face in different academic disciplines and career fields.


Carey Business School is accredited

The Carey Business School, founded at Hopkins in 2007, officially received accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The AACSB is widely recognized as the highest accreditation a business program can earn.


Symposium addresses public health in Asia

The third annual Public Health in Asia Symposium on Saturday featured two keynote speakers, Norman Epstein and Paul Kadetz, who discussed the culture of mental health care and antimicrobial resistance in China. The Symposium also included research on South Korea’s universal health care system which was presented by graduate students from the School of Public Health and an undergraduate freshman.


Panelists talk black Muslim communities

The African Students Association (ASA) hosted a forum on the black Muslim community in Baltimore on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in Charles Commons. The discussion revolved around Baltimore residents’ experience of the intersection between blackness and Islam.



Profs. talk social justice through economic lens

Holly Taylor, Maria Merritt and David Dowdy spoke about social justice from the perspective of economic evaluation at a seminar hosted by the Berman Institute of Bioethics on Monday, Feb. 13. The seminar, called “The Incorporation of social justice into economic evaluation of novel drug regimens for MDR-TB,” is part of an ongoing series held twice a month.




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Donna Brazile met with left-leaning student group leaders last Friday.

DNC chair meets with select student leaders

With the Republican Party controlling both houses of Congress and the presidency, the Democratic Party is evaluating the next steps they should take in response to the Trump administration.



After impeachment, SGA replaces senator

Following Tiffany Onyejiaka’s impeachment for attendance infractions last November, new senior class senator Jeremy Fraenkel was officially sworn in at the end of the Student Government Association’s (SGA) meeting on Tuesday.


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Nine East 33rd is one of many off-campus housing options in Charles Village available to upperclassmen.

Off-campus housing search frustrates students

The University has a two-year on-campus residency requirement for students, and while there are some University housing options available to upperclassmen, the majority of undergraduates move off campus following their sophomore year.



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