Members of the Hopkins and Baltimore community joined a demonstration in Charles Village on Sunday evening in response to a recent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
The Hopkins community is mourning the death of Abigail Bastien, a rising sophomore. The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) found her body early in the morning on July 13th and are currently conducting an investigation.
Four Hopkins undergraduates overdosed on an opioid substance at a party hosted by The Delta Phi Fraternity on May 7. Delta Phi, also known as St. Elmo Hall or “Elmo’s”, is not recognized by the University and has been suspended by its national chapter.
For its final event of the semester, the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) held a pop-up exhibition of 20 posters designed by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The posters, which depicted scenes from the global refugee crisis, were displayed in the Mudd Hall Atrium from Sunday to Monday.
Baltimore Police Department (BPD) arrested sophomore Advaith Baimeedi on Thursday for calling 911 to make a false bomb threat at approximately 7:07 that morning. According to a statement from the BPD, Baimeedi said in the call that he had placed explosive devices in several lecture halls on Homewood Campus. The University postponed 9 a.m. final examinations by an hour to investigate but found nothing suspicious.
The University’s Task Force on Mental Health and Wellbeing has worked for over a year to assess mental health resources at Hopkins and address student concerns about high stress levels on campus. The Task Force released a draft of its recommendations for improving mental health and wellness on Wednesday, May 3.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held its last weekly meeting of the year on Tuesday to approve nominees for the Student Activities Commission, debate the Smoking Ban Resolution and approve the Ethics Board nominees.
The Human Library (HL), an event where people chosen as “books” talk to visitors about personal experiences with discrimination, took place in the Brody Learning Commons on Sunday.
Gladys Burrell, a cashier in the Fresh Food Café (FFC), will retire at the end of this semester after working at Hopkins for 46 years.
David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), spoke to a crowd of around 200 in Hodson Hall about his work bringing critiques of capitalism back into public discourse.
Retired Walters Art Museum Director, Gary Vikan, spoke about his book, Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director, at the Charles Village Barnes and Noble on Thursday, April 27.
Students, professors and guest speakers gathered for a roundtable discussion to share their experiences living in Baltimore and discuss the University’s role in the city.
Tens of thousands of protesters participated in the People’s Climate March on Saturday, April 29, in Washington, D.C., to voice their opposition to the Trump administration’s environmental policies.
Experts gathered to discuss child sexual abuse prevention at the Bloomberg School of Public Health’s fifth annual Child Sexual Abuse Symposium. The Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse hosted the symposium on Thursday, April 27.
While medical schools accept around 70 percent of Hopkins applicants each year, many students find the application process challenging. To address this problem, two Hopkins alumni and one current student created White Coat Strategists (WCS), a company that helps students prepare for medical school admissions.
Many have criticized the University for ignoring the needs of local residents and solely acting to promote its own interests.
In just a few weeks, hundreds of women will be graduating from Hopkins and preparing to take the next steps in their academic and professional lives.
Construction and administrative decisions created challenges for the 46th annual Spring Fair, which took place last weekend.
The arrest and death of Freddie Gray, a 25 year old black man and Baltimore native, sparked both peaceful and violent protests in April 2015. Two years later, Baltimore and the Hopkins community are still trying to make sense of Gray’s death and the surge of activism that followed.
For months, activists have criticized the University for failing to condemn a paper published by two Hopkins affiliates in The New Atlantis last August. The paper suggests that biology does not play a role in determining sexuality and gender identity and argues that children who identify as a different gender will likely grow out of it.
