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The third ranked Blue Jays suffered only their second hiccup of the season Saturday, and had their 12-game home-winning streak snapped, falling to Maryland, 9-6 in front of a sold-out throng of 8,500 at Homewood Field.
This week saw a series of events on campus designed to draw attention to the issue of human trafficking. The series, entitled “My Generation Will Be Free,” was sponsored by the Christian Fellowship and SEED. It included a number of events with a religious focus, such as a 24-hour prayer session and a discussion of God and human trafficking. These were also accompanied by a number of speaker events and other efforts to raise awareness.
The Hopkins community joined in on national Earth Week celebrations, holding more than 40 events to highlight sustainability efforts. The initiative — named One Hopkins, One Earth — displays the University’s commitment to green energy through a series of seminars, recycling drives, movie screenings and much more. A couple of specific events included the Take the Tap Water Challenge, in which students attempted to differentiate between bottled water and tap water, and the Toxic Tour of Baltimore, which took students and faculty on a bus ride to visit city locations in need of environmental cleanup.
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences hosted “The Sinking of the Titanic – 100 Years Later” in Gilman Hall on April 14. The event strove to share information about the Titanic and the world in 1912 with the Hopkins community.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) hosted Stephen Moore, a senior economics writer and member of the editorial board for the Wall Street Journal, last Thursday, Apr. 12 in the Glass Pavilion. Moore shared his views on the current state of the economy and discussed the policies necessary to improve the United States economy after the recession.
The News-Letter sat down with U.S. Senator Ben Cardin to discuss the upcoming congressional elections. Cardin is currently a junior U.S. Senator and a member of the Democratic Party. He represented Maryland’s 3rd congressional district in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 2007, and is running for his second term in the Senate.
The Hopkins Americans Partnership for Israel (HAPI) held its first event last Sunday, featuring United States Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), who addressed the importance of a strong relationship between the United States and Israel. About 35 people attended the event, which was only open to student leaders.
The Hopkins chapter of Medicine, Education and Development to Low Income Families Everywhere (MEDLIFE) held the Global Banquet, its annual fundraising endeavor, in the Glass Pavilion on Monday evening.
The JHU Sustainability Network sponsored Earth Week, a week-long series of events which began on Monday and were structured to promote and educate students about sustainability on campus. The events culminate with Earth Day on Sunday, April 22.
The Hopkins InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (HCF) and Students Educating and Empowering for Diversity (SEED) are currently hosting an anti-human trafficking awareness week that began on Monday. The series of events, entitled “My Generation Will Be Free,” is occurring in conjunction with the events of 14 other colleges in Maryland and is the first of its kind at Hopkins.
In the final event of their spring lecture series, the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) brought former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs to Shriver Hall on Tuesday.
On Monday, the Student Government Association (SGA) announced its new executive board for the 2012-2013 academic year. After three days, student voters elected junior Moses Song, sophomore Alex Schupper, sophomore Michael St. Germain and sophomore Paige Doyle to serve on SGA’s executive board. The election set a record for one of the highest voter turnouts in school history, a 40.5 percent participation rate.
Hopkins hosted its annual Relay For Life, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, all night last Friday on Keyser Quad. Over 700 registered participants and many unregistered individuals took part in the event over the course of the night, and many student organizations showed their support for the cause. Various cancer survivors, both from Hopkins and the greater Baltimore community, attended and shared their stories.
The Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society (HUBS) hosted Professor Dan O'Connor this past Monday to speak about the history of transablism - the idea that a person psychologically believes he will be better off if he or she were disabled. He presented his opinion on the subject and the potential future of the movement.
Six undergraduates from the Hopkins chapter of the American Marketing Association (AMA) placed third at the SABRE Business Simulation Competition at the AMA's 34th annual Collegiate Conference in New Orleans last month. The Hopkins team - founded in 2008 by the Center for Leadership Education's Entrepreneurship & Management minor program - made its first appearance in the competition and placed ahead consistent contenders.
The Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Symposium (HUBS) held a Research Ethics Talk yesterday evening in the Charles Commons Ballroom to discuss the role of health care in developing countries. Attendees were divided into small groups of about five people, and each group was assigned to discuss and debate a particular set of issues pertaining to research worldwide.
The issue with performing angioplasty, a technique used to widen blood vessels, in hospitals without proper surgical units has long been a controversial topic. Many cardiologists claim that the lack of emergency care can lead to increased adverse events.
As volatile as the weather is on Earth, weather on the Sun can be just as extraordinary. Recently, scientists observed massive magnetic vortices on the surface of the sun, which can lead to a type of solar tornado. The structures were observed by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), and studied by Xing Li of Aberystwyth University in Wales.
When hearing that the isotopic ratio for uranium has been measured to a more accurate value of 137.818, from a previous value of 137.88, one might not think it is such a big deal. However, a recent study indicates that this small bit of change calls for an age reduction of understood geological processes for up to 700,000 years. The study was conducted at the British Geological Survey and MIT - the same research group that determined the new value.
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