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Patients paralyzed in one leg may someday be able to walk and balance again with the help of robots developed by Toyota. Toyota designed the robots to assist paralyzed patients with their rehabilitation and to help their caregivers move them more easily. On November 2, Toyota unveiled four prototypes of these robots at an event in Tokyo.
With 40 minors to choose from, some Hopkins students may not consider the program in Women, Gender and Sexuality very useful. Director Paola Marrati disagrees.
One of the harshest realities of global warming is its potential to feed into itself. A recent study by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California suggests that melting permafrost may affect the atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration.
Five Hopkins professors gathered before an audience of dozens in Gilman Hall on Wednesday night to individually present topics of passion within their respective fields. The event marked the inaugural session of Momentum: Ideas in Motion, a to-be-annual lecture series described by sophomore Leela Chakravarti, its chairwoman, as a forum for "[professors'] most engaging thoughts and ideas."
The Academic Council has recommended that Hopkins repeal its long-standing first semester grading policy, generally referred to as "covered grades."
Continuing a three-year trend of creating videos as a means of thanking University donors, Hopkins's Communications and Marketing Divisions staged and filmed a forty-person flash mob in Gilman Hall last Tuesday afternoon.
It's easy to get lost in the stressful world of biochem labs, history theses and orgo midterms. There's little break to the rigorous schedules and strenuous class work at Hopkins. But the Hopkins chapter of Campus Kitchen keeps students grounded by reminding students of the misfortunes of the world outside of our own bubble.
I, like many of my liberal friends, do not agree with the actions of Karl Rove, this week's MSE speaker, during the Bush presidency. I will even contend that some of his actions would warrant arrest and incarceration should he be proven guilty in a court of law. The fact that some people decided to heckle and protest Rove's speech, however, is simply reprehensible and disruptive. I will attempt to explain why in this situation, the protesters, who were from Occupy Baltimore, were in the wrong.
Last night we had an interesting character come out to Hopkins as part of our Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium. The theme of this symposium is "America's Boundless Possibilities." From the start of the year, I found this theme interesting. We are in the middle of an international institutional crisis. Our country is finding itself increasingly isolated and increasingly powerless in a global order in transformation, in challenge from so many angles.
This page is troubled by the Academic Council's movement to eliminate the freshmen covered grades policy. Hopkins's covered grades policy is unique and has been in existence since at least the early 1970s. Hopkins can be a relatively tough and pre-professional school, and the covered grades policy helps mitigate these issues by allowing students time to adjust to the academic intensity while exploring new intellectual horizons. This is especially important for the numerous international students who require time to adjust to living in the United States, let alone attending school here.
At the MSE Symposium on Tuesday night, Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush and current Fox News commentator, faced a slew of verbal interruptions to his speech from members of the Occupy Baltimore movement. The protesters decried Rove's influence on White House foreign policy, rebuking him as the driving force behind "Occupy Iraq" and "Occupy Afghanistan." Rove quickly shot back: "if you believe in free speech . . . then you demonstrate it by shutting up and waiting until the Q and A session." After almost incessant heckling and what a University official called "organized disruption," Rove finally finished his speech.
Protesters interrupted the Milton S. Eisenhower Symposium featuring Karl Rove, former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, with heckling and political chants last Tuesday evening.
Senior day does not usually define an athlete's collegiate career. In fact, many times the game is irrelevant; by the time the day of honor occurs, playoff chances have been solidified or extinguished, winning and losing records have been established, and the tone of the season has been set.
On Friday Nov. 11th, Hopkins volleyball played in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the program's history. While the Lady Jays lost to Randolph-Macon, 3-1, to end their season, Hopkins finished with an impressive final record of 25-5. Their winning percentage of .833 was a program record.
Men's Basketball
oss country team with four freshmen among the top seven runners, first year runner Hannah Eckstein has stood out this season for her tremendous work on the course. With a sixth place finish at the NCAA Mid East Regional championships, Eckstein was voted as the JHU News-Letter's Athlete of the Week.
Going into Saturday's game against McDaniel, Hopkins football knew how close they were to history. Despite securing the Centennial Conference title and an automatic bid into the playoffs in the weeks prior, the first undefeated season in school history was still on the line.
After claiming their seventh consecutive Centennial Conference Championship, the Hopkins women's soccer team played host to the first two rounds of the NCAA Division III tournament this past weekend. The Blue Jays welcomed Cabrini College, Eastern Connecticut State University (ECSU), and Springfield College to the friendly confines of historic Homewood Field for three "win-or-go-home" soccer games.
Both the Hopkins men and women's cross country teams ran spectacularly at their respective NCAA Mideast Regional competitions on Saturday with the women coming in first-place for the fourth straight year. Behind a sixth-place finish from freshman Hannah Eckstein, The News-Letter's Athlete of the Week, the Lady Jays once again qualified for Nationals.
The original cheat code and now the key to a quick laugh, the Konami Code, is a common means to see a surprise on a website. Pressing "left right left right up down up down B A" on many websites will often lead to a surprise. On Facebook this used to create a variety of circles on screen and on MailChimp, a popular newsletter service, this yields a large ape appearing on screen. The Konami Code is just one of the many ways to find a joke hidden on the web or in a program. But what was once the programmer's hidden signature or witty surprise has often become a means for websites and companies to be more fun. Despite their new legal identity as people [Citizen's United v. FEC], most people still consider corporations the same lifeless legal entities of yesteryear, but with a witty joke and a hidden message corporations humanize themselves. Google's "Don't be evil" motto and it's penchant for amusing Easter eggs (hidden surprises) helped Google transform itself from a mere search company into the verb ‘to google.'