Homewood Professor of the Arts Thomas Dolby discussed his new memoir, The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers Between Music and Technology, on the evening of Thursday, Feb. 8 at Barnes & Noble.
As part of the first annual Miriam Decosta-Willis Lecture Series, Jessica Ann Levy spoke about U.S. black empowerment in the business sphere of the 1960s and how such history is relevant today on Tuesday, Feb. 7.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) officially announced their speaker lineup for the spring semester on Thursday, Feb. 2. For the Symposium’s 20th anniversary, they have brought together a range of speakers united around the theme “Undercurrent.”
Javad Fotouhi, a third-year PhD student studying computer science at Hopkins, was traveling back to the United States after visiting family in Iran when he and his wife were detained at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.
On the day following President Donald Trump’s inauguration, millions of Americans took to the streets for the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history.
The order, which was signed on Friday, Jan. 27 immediately confused passengers, as well as federal agencies and airlines as they attempted to enforce and comply with the travel ban.
Nadya Tolokonnikova, social activist and co-founder of the Russian punk rock protest group Pussy Riot, spoke at Shriver Hall on Wednesday. It was the first Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) event for this semester.
Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America on Friday, Jan. 20.
With over 4,000 members, the Facebook group “Hopkins Memes for My Lost Hopes and Dreams” serves as an online destination for students to post Hopkins-related memes.
Jared Hickman, associate English professor, spoke about the publication of his book Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery, on Thursday, Jan. 19 at Red Emma’s Bookstore and Coffeehouse.
In its first meeting of the semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) reflected on the Fall 2016 semester and outlined some of its plans for this semester in the Charles Commons Barber Conference Room on Tuesday.
Twenty-six faculty from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health wrote a letter to President Trump urging him not to sign an executive order severely restricting the United States refugee program. Hours after the letter’s publication, Trump officially signed the executive order, which bans travel from seven predominantly Muslim countries and indefinitely bans Syrian refugees.
In December 2016, junior Christian Cholish and senior Nadya Kronis relaunched Argot, an undergraduate anthropological research journal which examines the role of anthropology in relation to the humanities, and other sciences across various mediums. Cholish and Kronis, who are both anthropology majors, serve as co-editors of the journal.
A protest against President Trump’s recent executive orders was held on Saturday, Jan. 28 at the Edward A. Garmatz United States Courthouse. A couple hundred protesters gathered in front of the Thurgood Marshall statue and then marched along Hopkins Place and W. Lombard St. towards the Inner Harbor.
Baltimore native Barbara Mikulski joined the U.S. Senate for the Democratic Party in 1976 and went on to become the longest-serving woman in Congressional history. She is also the longest-serving Maryland Senator.
The Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS) announced today that Nadya Tolokonnikova, a member of the Russian punk protest band Pussy Riot, will be the first speaker of its spring series, "Undercurrent." Tolokonnikova, a radical feminist and anti-fascist activist, will speak in Shriver Hall at 7 p.m. on Feb. 1.
The University placed Trent Bertrand, an adjunct professor in the Economics department, on paid leave Monday, Dec. 5, following complaints that he had created a “hostile environment” in the classroom. Bertrand, whose contract is renewed annually, has taught International Trade for the past six years.
As students finish finals, the Office of the Registrar begins to sift through thousands of course evaluation surveys.
Since the spring of 2015, Flash Seminars have provided a platform for students and professors to explore intellectual themes outside the pressure of the classroom.
