The Student-Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) protested on Feb. 3 and demanded a meeting with University President Ronald J. Daniels to discuss policies that would benefit Hopkins contract workers. But since then, attempts to arrange a meeting between SLAC and the administration have broken down.
New restaurants PekoPeko Ramen and R. House recently opened for business near the Homewood campus, quickly gaining popularity among students. R. House is a large warehouse-turned-dining-hall in Remington, while PekoPeko found its place in the Nine East 33rd building in Charles Village.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, renowned author, social activist and Hopkins alumna, spoke about the normalization of hate in the United States. She also reflected on her own literary works on Wednesday, Feb. 8 as part of the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) in Shriver Hall.
Roughly 60 students, dining workers and security guards surprised University administrators on Friday, Feb. 3 by holding a protest in Garland Hall. They demanded new policies benefitting all contract workers, who are not directly employed by the University.
The computer science (CS) department is struggling to accommodate an unexpected surge in student interest for CS courses this spring semester.
After several semesters of debate on how to improve mental health at Hopkins, Shrenik Jain and Ravi Shah have attempted to create a new platform for counseling services.
The Student Government Association (SGA) elected Kenneth-Von Blackmon as the new executive treasurer at their weekly meeting in Charles Commons this Tuesday. The election followed the announcement that former Executive Treasurer John Tycher would step down from his position after his decision to go abroad in the spring 2017 semester.
Jennifer Fairman, associate professor at the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, spoke about the role of art in medical practices in the Bloomberg Center on Wednesday as part of the weekly JHU Visualization Discussion Group lecture.
Erica Schoenberger, a professor of Environmental Health and Engineering, gave a talk called “The Non-market Origins of Markets, Capitalism and Creative Cities” in Ames Hall on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Schoenberger’s lecture, which is a part of the M. Gordon Wolman Seminar hosted by the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, focused mainly on the development of markets.
The new student union space and dining facility, the LaB, opened on Feb. 3 in the Homewood apartments building. It joins a cohort of other student union spaces including Levering Hall, the Mattin Center and Nolan’s on 33rd that serve as social areas.
Hopkins graduates Mario Jovan Shaw and Jason Terrell were roommates at Teach for America and then entered the master’s program the Johns Hopkins School of Education when they realized a fundamental problem: How could they encourage young black boys to continue their education or go into education, as they did? Shaw and Terrell discovered that young black boys needed to see role models like themselves in the classroom.
Students gathered in front of the Hopkins sign on N. Charles Street on Wednesday afternoon to denounce sexual assault. They stood holding signs, some of which read, “End Rape Culture,” “Estimated 95% Unreported,” “Silence is Violence” and “You are not alone.”
Prasenjit Duara, the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University, gave a lecture titled “Transcendence in a Secular World” on Monday, Feb. 6 in Mergenthaler Hall. As the first event of the East Asian Studies spring 2017 speaker series, Duara’s talk centered around Asian traditions and their impact on a sustainable future.
Homewood Professor of the Arts Thomas Dolby discussed his new memoir, The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology, on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 8 at Barnes & Noble.
As part of the first annual Miriam Decosta-Willis Lecture Series, Jessica Ann Levy spoke about U.S. black empowerment in the business sphere of the 1960s and how such history is relevant today on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) officially announced their speaker lineup for the spring semester on Thursday, Feb. 2. For the Symposium’s 20th anniversary, they have brought together a range of speakers united around the theme “Undercurrent.”
Javad Fotouhi, a third-year PhD student studying computer science at Hopkins, was traveling back to the United States after visiting family in Iran when he and his wife were detained at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.
On the day following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of Americans took to the streets for the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.
The order, which was signed on Friday, Jan. 27 immediately confused passengers, as well as federal agencies and airlines as they attempted to enforce and comply with the travel ban.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, social activist and co-founder of the Russian punk rock protest group Pussy Riot, spoke at Shriver Hall on Wednesday. It was the first Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) event for this semester.
