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Last Sunday, the Sheridan Libraries at Hopkins announced the opening of Eureka!: Rare Books in the History of Scientific Discovery at the George Peabody Library. The exhibition is a selection from the Dr. Elliott and Eileen Hinkes Collection, which totals over 300 items.
Give or take a few weeks, it's been a year since Columbia Pictures released The Social Network, the tenebrously-filmed, factually-ambiguous account of Mark Zuckerberg's nascent career as the father of Facebook. While the film's aesthetic was gloomy and its script strayed from fact – one third a subtle nod to Kurosawa's legal classic Rashomon, two thirds Sorkinian creative license – one truth resonates from it, and brightly so. Zuckerberg, as exemplified by his (Jesse Eisenberg's) penchant for sweatshirts, flip-flops, and wry insouciance, was and is still a kid.
This past Saturday, alpha Kappa Delta Phi(aKDPhi) hosted its annual Breastival, an event designed to spread awareness during the month of October, National Breast Cancer Month. The event raised over $2000, all proceeds going directly to Avon Breast Cancer Research. This year, around 170 people attended, a number comparable to last year when the Breastival was held on the Beach.
Wall Street has been prominently plastering the news in recent weeks. In addition to the high profile, low impact protests of the Occupy Wall Street movement, there has been the most noteworthy insider trading scandal to hit the epicenter of America's high finance.
At Hopkins, Greek organizations comprise a vocal minority of students on campus. There are 22 fraternities and sororities here, some of which have over a hundred members. Others have few members, including five fraternities with fewer than 10 members. The total number of students participating in Greek organizations in the spring of 2011 was 1,208 out of 4,870 total students.
The past few years have seen the traffic situation around Charles Village go from dangerous to deadly. There have been two Hopkins student fatalities because of reckless driving as well as several non-lethal collisions, not to mention crashes resulting in property damage.
Let's be honest: Baltimore certainly is not known for being a fashion mecca. Needless to say, our neighboring cities often overshadow Baltimore in many regards, including shopping.
Most every student at Hopkins has experienced the wonder that is the Fresh Food Café (FFC). The FFC serves every freshman on a regular basis as well as the occasional athlete or die-hard fan. We'll look at a few ways for FFC diners to capitalize on their Hopkins meal-swiping experience.
Hopkins will be offering a new graduate program that can award its students a Master's in Biotechnology Enterprise and Entrepreneurship starting in the Spring 2012 semester. The degree aims to help students study biotechnology through the lens of commercialization and industry. The program is currently accepting applications on a rolling admissions cycle.
If you're a guy and you've ever found yourself gazing longingly at a girl you know you don't have a fraction of the amount of game necessary to score points with, you're in luck!
Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI) and several other student groups co-hosted the "Shark and the Fish" event this past Tuesday evening to celebrate the recent release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit by Hamas and to discuss Israeli human rights policies. The event included talks by two emissaries from Shinshinim, a program by the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency for Israel to educate communities abroad about Israel and Israeli culture, and an Israel-native Hopkins political science PhD student.
An Ellicott City teenager who was due to be part of the Hopkins class of 2015 pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges in a Philadelphia federal court on Monday.
The Hopkins Muslim Association (MA) hosted its inaugural Muslim Unity Symposium this past Friday. The event showcased University of Pennsylvania research fellow Sadik Kassim who spoke on the origins of a number of major Shi'a and Sunni Madh'habs, Muslim schools of thought, and the substantial similarities among them.
Artist and activist Soraida Martinez spoke to a group of Hopkins students Monday in the midst of a display of 21 of her paintings as one of a series of speakers presented by Ole for Hispanic Heritage Month.
Parallel Lives just closed on the Baltimore Theatre Project stage on Preston St.
Anna Bella Eema is not your typical production in the Baltimore theatre realm.
Twenty-five Baltimore locals congregated on the Olmsted lot to express their dissatisfaction with the University's lack of development of the property. On Sunday, Oct. 9, the attendees — residents of Charles Village and others from farther-reaching neighborhoods — gathered for an afternoon of recreation, bringing Frisbees, blankets and children.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE), Beta Theta Pi (Beta), Phi Kappa Psi (Phi Psi), Phi Gamma Delta (Fiji), Sigma Phi Epsilon (Sig Ep), and the rugby house are now recycling, thanks to a project spearheaded by sophomore Zoe Kaiser and senior Wyatt Roscoe.
Zippy Larson, a local Baltimore historian, gave a lecture as part of Family Weekend this past Saturday. The operator of a Baltimore walking tour business, Larson touched upon the unique aspects of the different Baltimore neighborhoods in her talk.
This past weekend many underclassmen found their nighttime plans hindered by the authoritative response to copious alcohol violations and incidents. Most of the infractions involved and implicated Charles Village bars and pubs, culminating last Wednesday night, October 12, when an unidentified freshman was hospitalized due to alcohol poisoning, following a night at Maxies Pizza Bar & Grill.