In honor of the Transgender Day of Remembrance, the Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance (DSAGA) held a screening of The T Word in Wolman Theater on Nov. 20.
This Friday kicks off the start of reading period at Homewood Campus.
Two Reisterstown, Md. men have been arrested and charged with 14 offenses, including first- and second-degree rape, against a 16-year-old girl inside the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) fraternity house on Nov. 2, according to the Baltimore Police Department (BPD).
The Student Government Association (SGA) hosted its first-ever Blue Jay Pride Week from Nov. 13-15 in an effort to encourage school spirit among undergraduates.
Itamar Marcus, the founder of Israeli media research institute Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), spoke in Hodson Hall on Nov. 13 about how the Palestinian government portrays Israel in its media.
Ashraf Ghani, a former associate professor in the anthropology department, was declared president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on Sept. 21. Ghani was a professor at Hopkins from 1983-1991.
The Student Government Association (SGA) meeting on Tuesday focused on how the SGA can take action to resolve the issues regarding binge drinking and sexual assault that were discussed at its Community Forum on Nov. 13.
Students for Environmental Action (SEA) and Sustainable Hopkins Infrastructure Program (SHIP) hosted Katie O’Meara, environmental design professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and Brenna Goggin, environmental advocate at the Delaware Nature Society, for their first Sustainable Action Speaker Series panel on Nov. 13.
Guest professor Marc de Graef, from Carnegie Mellon University’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, delivered a presentation about the numbers behind musicality in the Gilman Atrium on Friday evening.
The Hopkins Undergraduate Bioethics Society (HUBS) hosted a forum that discussed the bioethics of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide on Nov. 13 in the AMR I Multipurpose Room. The forum focused on a person’s right to end their own life in the face of terminal illness.
College Democrats and College Republicans discussed American involvement in foreign affairs at their annual debate in Hodson Hall on Monday. The event was sponsored by Charles St. News.
The Tour of Taiwan festival, hosted by the Taiwanese American Students Association (TASA), took place in the Glass Pavillion on Saturday night.
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) awarded Michela Gallagher, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, with the Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award at its annual Neuroscience conference in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
A Hopkins undergraduate biomedical engineering team took home second place and a $10,000 prize in the undergraduate division of the annual Collegiate Inventors Competition for AccuSpine, a probe that assists with spinal fusion surgeries.
Dr. Albert Chi, a trauma surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an assistant professor of surgery at the Hopkins School of Medicine, recently decided to construct a prosthetic hand for Patti Anderson, a fourth-grade teacher at Western Salisbury Elementary School after her students wrote to the doctor on her behalf..
After a moratorium on all social events held in the 12 Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) chapter houses, the University announced via JHBroadcast on Friday that the IFC’s interim plan, which allows invite-only events and requires the presence of sober party monitors, will go into effect immediately.
The Student Government Association (SGA) called together an impromptu community forum on Nov. 13 in response to the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) house on Nov. 2 and the subsequent moratorium on all social events in Inter-Fraternity Council (IFC) fraternity houses that was in effect from Nov. 6-14.
The United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) hosted the Maryland Inter-Generational Consultation on Tuesday in the Glass Pavilion.
Green Week 2014 began with its Kick Off event on Monday on the Keyser Quad. Environmental groups, including Real Food Hopkins; Students of Environmental Action (SEA); the Environment, Energy, Sustainability & Health Institute (E2SHI); Homewood Recycling and Refuel Our Future collaborated to increase environmental awareness among the student body.
Cheryl Clarke, a celebrated writer, feminist and lesbian and civil rights activist, gave a talk titled “Living as a Lesbian in the Age of Obama” on Wednesday in Gilman Hall. The event was sponsored by the Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality (WGS), and co-sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies and LGBTQ Life.
