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.
Every October thousands of students apply for fellowships to explore new opportunities in their field of study.
Hopkins alumnus Greg Asbed was awarded a MacArthur fellowship, or a “genius grant,” last week for his efforts to improve workplace conditions for farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida.
A week after celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA) hosted Defamation, an interactive courtroom drama that has been performed over 300 times in schools and theaters across the U.S. The performance took place in the Levering Arellano Theater on Thursday, Oct. 12.
As part of an ongoing effort to make mental health resources more accessible to the Hopkins community, the Counseling Center has begun promoting Calm, an app that offers guided meditation, bedtime stories and music to help people relax and de-stress.
The Hopkins Alumni Association held the annual Young Alumni Weekend (YAW) from Friday, Oct. 6 to Saturday, Oct. 7. Throughout the weekend, alumni returned to Hopkins to reconnect with friends and meet with current Hopkins students.
The Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed its newly-elected freshman representatives at its weekly meeting on Tuesday in Charles Commons.
Four panelists with experience in the Middle East shared their views on the humanitarian crises in the region at a discussion titled “Unexpected Challenges in the Post-Islamic State Era” on Thursday, October 5.
After celebrating Columbus Day on Monday, Baltimore community members are debating whether a recently vandalized Christopher Columbus monument should be rededicated or renamed.
