Next Monday, Feb. 24, the University will hold a Commemoration Ball in honor of the school’s founding. The official anniversary of the school’s founding falls on Feb. 22 each year — the date that the University’s first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, was sworn in.
A record number of women — 303 in total — registered for Panhellenic sorority recruitment this year. According to the University’s Coordinator of Greek Life & Orientation Rachel Drennen, 275 women registered last year.
On Sunday, the Black Student Union (BSU) hosted an event during which students, faculty and staff discussed the racial climate at Hopkins.
While many professors pursue academic endeavors outside of the classroom, such ventures usually entail writing articles or conducting laboratory research; Professor John Driscoll’s undertaking, however, is a different, full-time career.
This weekend, the JHU Politik will be launching a new video series in addition to its regular online magazine.
Valentine’s Day was a week-long affair on the Homewood Campus with conversation hearts, condom-grams and romantic Pandora stations ubiquitous. Beginning with a love-themed Sterling Brunch on Sunday and culminating in a second snow day on Friday, the Valentine’s Day activities were a welcome distraction from school for many students.
Dr. Robert Bagdorf, vice president of worldwide business development in biopharmaceuticals search and evaluation at Pfizer, spoke in Hackerman Hall on Monday about marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
Now in its 55th year, the Tutorial Project enables Hopkins students to reach out and make a difference in the lives of children in the Baltimore community.
President Ronald J. Daniels was listed as the 30th highest-paid private college president on The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual list of executive compensation at private colleges. The list of 2011 executive compensations was published in December just before the Board of Trustees voted to extend Daniels’ contract until 2019.
This year, for the first time in the University’s history, students signing up for on-campus housing will be able to choose to register in gender inclusive units.
Between Thursday and Sunday, the Johns Hopkins Model United Nations Conference (JHUMUNC) hosted a total of 1,680 high school students from all over the world at the Hilton Baltimore, making JHUMUNC XVII the largest conference in the history of the undergraduate organization.
On Feb. 8, the brothers of the Hopkins chapter of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity posted a parody of The Wolf of Wall Street trailer on Vimeo.com, a video sharing website. Within hours, it had been picked up by other sites, such as TotalFratMove.com, where it was proclaimed to be “so damn good” and given “two thumbs way up.”
Earlier this month, over 100 students gathered in Hackerman Hall for the first ever Hopkins Robotics Club meeting. Surprised but excited by the large turnout, the club’s executive board members have already had to change their course of action.
This past Friday was National Wear Red Day, a countrywide campaign to promote stroke awareness. HASA, the Hopkins Association for Stroke Awareness, encouraged students to participate in the event by passing out fliers and giveaways on the Breezeway.
This semester, for the first time, the Homewood Arts Programs is offering free, semester long, non-credit courses in both contemporary modern dance and ballet. Both classes utilize the Caplan Studio in the Mattin Center.
The University is offering for the first time a new class called "Global Social Change and Development Research Practicum," which will allow undergraduate students to participate in an ongoing research project by the Department of Sociology.
On Monday, the Hopkins chapter of Global China Connection (GCC) hosted SAIS Professor David M. Lampton, an expert on U.S.-China relations, to discuss his recent book, Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.
With events co-sponsored by a variety of student organizations, Black History Month at Hopkins has gotten underway. The theme for this year’s Black History Month celebration, which was organized by the Hopkins Black History Month Committee, is “Beyond Blackness: Local to Global.”
Bon Appétit Management Company, the dining provider for Hopkins, has made significant changes to some of the University’s major dining options, specifically the Fresh Food Café (FFC), Nolan’s on 33rd and Charles Street Market (Char Mar) for the new semester.
The experience of watching Professor Jimmy Joe Roche’s short films is very odd and often visceral. In one film, entitled Peacing Out, a rainbow-colored Roche slides slowly towards the camera, fingers outstretched in the universal symbol for peace, for a duration of two and a half minutes. In another, Lean Cuts for Osama Bin, Roche portrays a man with a personal, violent message for Osama Bin Laden, set over a picture of a landfill.
