In an interview with The News-Letter on Tuesday, University President Ronald J. Daniels discussed the current political climate, ongoing labor and divestment campaigns on campus and the relationship between the administration and the student body.
After a conflict between Hopkins Dining worker Latanya Genius and her temporary manager, students reached out to Hopkins Dining to express dissatisfaction with the manager’s behavior. The manager has since been removed from Nolan’s dining facility.
Carl Hart, the Dirk Ziff Professor of Psychology at Columbia University, presented on racial discrimination in drug policy on Tuesday evening in Shriver Hall. His talk, “Drug Policy is Race Policy,” was a part of the JHU Forums on Race in America, a series designed to promote conversations about race and racism at Hopkins.
Rebecca Goldstein, a representative from the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Men Can Stop Rape, led a discussion about what men can do to combat rape culture.
Three panelists discussed the state of poverty and humanitarian aid in the Middle East in Charles Commons on Thursday, April 13. The event, which was hosted by the Hopkins chapter of Nourish International and the International Studies Leadership Council, discussed the implications of rising instability within the region.
Speakers from the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Maryland (UMD) Medical Center spoke about the challenges and accomplishments of women in medicine and surgery last Monday in Mergenthaler Hall.
The Student Government Association (SGA) discussed the potential of implementing a smoking ban resolution on campus at its weekly meeting on Tuesday in Charles Commons.
TCO Labs, a student-run nonprofit organization whose goal is to foster a stronger entrepreneurial environment at Hopkins, held its first annual Hatch Innovation Conference on Saturday afternoon in Hodson Hall. The conference brought together various student, alumni and local startups.
Protesters gathered in Washington, D.C. to demand that President Donald Trump release his tax returns on April 15, 2017, which is traditionally Tax Day.
Food left over from events on campus is often thrown out, creating tons of waste each year. To address this problem, organizers of the Free Food Waste Remediation Initiative have launched an email system to alert students of leftover free food.
The Office of Institutional Equity (OIE) interviewed Trent Bertrand, an adjunct professor in the economics department who was suspended in December, as part of an ongoing investigation into claims that he created a “hostile environment” in his classroom. The interview took place on Friday, April 7.
The first annual MEDTalks conference invited a group of eight professionals, with backgrounds in medicine, research and community health, to discuss how their studies could be applied.
The Student Government Association (SGA) held its weekly meeting in Charles Commons on Tuesday. SGA members discussed three major initiatives, which included implementing a new online voting system and funding a student consulting group.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Englund discussed his debut book, March 1917: On the Brink of War and Revolution, on Thursday, April 6 in Barnes and Noble.
Yoon Jung Park, an adjunct associate professor in the African Studies Program at Georgetown University, presented “Chinese labor migrants in Africa, past and present,” a talk about the history of Chinese migration to Africa and the African response to the new Chinese migrants.
Sculptor and printmaker David Hess displayed a collection of mock assault rifles in the Levering Glass Pavilion on Monday afternoon. Titled the Gun Show, the pop-up exhibition centered around a panel discussion, during which nearly 40 people gathered in a circle around the rifles and related their personal experiences with guns and gun violence.
Environmental advocacy group Students for Environmental Action (SEA) recently launched the Progressive Student Update (PSU), a weekly newsletter that aims to unite left-leaning student groups on campus.
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, came to Hopkins to discuss politics and the media. The Office of the Dean of Student Life sponsored the talk on Thursday, April 6.
The Committee on Student Elections (CSE) announced on Tuesday that the New Horizons ticket won the Student Government Association (SGA) executive board elections, defeating the HopForward ticket.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Ian Hutchinson discussed the relationship between religion and science as part of the Veritas Forum last Thursday, April 6. The talk titled, “Does Science Lead to Atheism?” took place in the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy.
