College students from around the country came to Homewood campus last weekend to participate in the HopHacks Fall 2017 hackathon. Working in teams, they had 36 hours from 9 p.m. Friday to 9 a.m. Sunday to design and code a technological product.
Although students were previously unable to select Russian as a primary major, they had the option to add it as a second major or minor through the Goucher College-Johns Hopkins University Cooperative Program in Russian Language and Literature. Founded in 1970, the program gave Hopkins and Goucher students the opportunity to take classes at both campuses.
The Public Interest Investment Advisory Committee (PIIAC) recommended that the University divest from fossil fuels in a report released on Friday. Following PIIAC’s recommendation, the Office of the Provost established a 30-day period for the Hopkins community to submit feedback online.
The University’s Office of Student Leadership and Involvement (SLI) announced that they will not accept new performing arts and local community service groups this year.
Last year, the University created the Center for Student Success (CSS) in order to assist students by providing mentorship, coaching and community building resources.
The Public Interest Investment Advisory Committee (PIIAC) recommended that the University divest its endowment from fossil fuels in a report released on Friday.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday that none of the six Baltimore Police Department (BPD) officers originally charged in connection with Freddie Gray’s 2015 death will face federal criminal charges.
This year the University increased tuition by 3.5 percent for undergraduates enrolled full-time at Homewood, and financial aid for those students rose by nine percent. Undergraduate tuition this year will amount to just over $52,000, an increase of over $3,000 from three years ago.
A federal judge is allowing a $1 billion lawsuit against Hopkins to move forward after it was dismissed in 2016 for the University’s alleged involvement in a 1940s experiment that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases.
Special Collections, a University archive of rare documents, introduced the Freshman Fellows program last year as part of an effort to more closely engage undergraduate students with Special Collections research. The year-long fellowship drew 24 freshman applicants, of which four Fellows were selected.
At their second meeting of the semester on Tuesday, the Student Government Association (SGA) discussed several initiatives they will hold in partnership with the University administration. These included the annual SGA-Administration Dinner, a new Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS) Curriculum and a new SGA-led initiative on improving civic discourse on campus.
The JHU Forums on Race in America hosted April Ryan, former White House reporter for American Urban Radio Networks, on Tuesday night. She spoke on a multitude of issues ranging from her perspective on racial inequality to fake news.
The Johns Hopkins University Press, the oldest university press in the U.S., will be celebrating its 140th anniversary in 2018.
Oscar Vasquez, a former undocumented immigrant, and Fredi Lajvardi, a high school robotics coach, spoke about politics and immigration in the Ralph S. O’Connor Recreation Center on Thursday, Sept. 7.
The Trump administration announced its intention to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in six months.
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos declared last Thursday that she intends to roll back Obama-era policies regarding campus sexual assault. On Tuesday, the University announced that it does not plan to change its current sexual assault policies.
The University instituted a new child accommodation policy for graduate students over the summer. This program allows new parents to take up to eight weeks off to care for their children.
Hopkins is no longer a top 10 university, according to the 2018 U.S. News & World Report college rankings, which were released on Tuesday.
The Peabody Conservatory announced that it will be offering a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Dance earlier this summer. The program is the first of its kind at the institute and is expected to launch in the 2018-2019 academic year.
Bird in Hand, a cafe-bookshop in Charles Village co-created by local bookstore The Ivy Bookshop and Baltimore coffeehouse Artifact Coffee, welcomed Baltimorean writer Rafael Alvarez on Tuesday night as part of his monthly reading series, Readings with Ralphie.
