For the 37th straight year, the University has been named the leader in research and development (R&D) spending among American colleges in fiscal year 2015.
Johns Hopkins Medicine will open the Center for Transgender Health by early spring of next year. The Center aims to provide transgender people with a lifelong healthcare program.
Following president-elect Donald Trump’s victory, members of the Latino community in the United States are concerned about the potential impact of his presidency.
Since its founding in 1962, the International Studies (IS) program has been one of the most popular majors at the University. With 332 enrolled students, it is currently the third largest undergraduate degree program in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
The Masculinity Project, a semester-long effort to promote conversation about masculinity on college campuses, culminated with the Health and Wellness fair held on Tuesday in the Glass Pavilion.
Ellen K. Silbergeld, a professor of environmental health studies, epidemiology and health policy and management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, spoke about her critically acclaimed book, Chickenizing Farms and Food, at Barnes & Noble on Nov. 20.
How does the research-oriented environment at Hopkins affect students? Daniel Coit Gilman, the University’s first president, promoted a model that emphasized teaching and research that revolutionized higher education across the country. Gilman’s model made Hopkins the first U.S.-based research university.
The Student Government Association (SGA) hosted its first annual Fall Forum, a platform for students to openly ask questions, view presentations and provide feedback to the SGA for its work, on Tuesday in Mudd Hall. The main discussions items on the agenda were mental health and diversity and inclusion, which the SGA has outlined as two of its three key focus areas for this academic year.
Jonathan May, a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) Information Sciences Institute, gave a talk on Nov. 29 about Natural Language Processing (NLP), a branch of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science concerned with the interactions between computers and human languages.
Chemistry Nobel Laureate Dr. Peter Agre spoke about his experiences meeting with the recently deceased Cuban dictator Fidel Castro on Wednesday at the Johns Hopkins Club. Agre also invited Luis Alberto Montero-Cabrera, a professor at the University of Havana, to speak about his experiences as a teacher in Cuba.
Refuel Our Future, a student led fossil fuel divestment campaign at Hopkins, staged a peaceful protest and sit-in on Thursday, Nov. 17 outside Garland Hall. The group demanded that the University respond to their divestment proposal, which demands that the part of its endowment that is invested in fossil fuel companies be eliminated.
Supporters of the Humanities Center (HC) marched last Thursday, Nov. 17, from Levering Courtyard to the Wyman Park Building to confront Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) Beverly Wendland about the Center’s possible closure.
Since the announcement that former Democratic presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders would speak on campus, the Hopkins community eagerly anticipated his arrival. Students began lining up in front of Shriver Hall on Thursday at 1 p.m., six hours before Sanders’ talk.
More than 100 Hopkins students gathered on the Beach last Thursday to protest Donald J. Trump’s victory in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
Supporters of the Humanities Center (HC) gathered in the Levering Courtyard last Thursday to protest its potential closure. Graduate students and professors voiced their concerns and placed the HC demonstration in the context of other student movements around the world.
Students walked out of class on Wednesday at 3 p.m. to show support for the national Sanctuary Campus movement. The campaign aims to protect undocumented immigrants on college campuses.
In response to Donald Trump’s victory, eight Hopkins professors speculated about the election’s impact on American society.
Karen Fleming, a Hopkins biophysics professor, spoke about discrimination and inherent biases against women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields on Wednesday. She also touched on the importance of diversity and inclusion and the systematic oppression of self-confidence in women. The talk was co-sponsored by Hopkins Feminists and The Triple Helix at JHU.
The Hopkins chapter of J Street U, a nationwide college campus movement advocating a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, gathered in front of Gilman Hall on Monday in solidarity with the Palestinian village of Susya. The village faces potential demolition from the Israeli government since it was built without building permits.
