As part of the first annual Frederick Douglass Lecture Series, author Kiese Laymon led a discussion and read a selection from his upcoming project about black youth and growing up in Mississippi on Feb. 23.
Philadelphia-based poets Perry “Vision” DiVirgilio and Kavindu “Kavi” Ade gave a poetry reading focused on themes of race, religion, self image, gender and gender identity.
Ashley Fiutko Arico, who recently earned her Ph.D. in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Hopkins, held a talk at the University’s Archaeological Museum featuring objects she identified from pre-dynastic Egypt. Her presentation, which took place in Gilman Hall on Friday, Feb. 24, was based on a project she began in 2012. Her presentation explained that the majority of the objects in the Museum were given to the University by the Egyptian Exploration Fund (EEF).
The Black Faculty & Staff Association (BFSA) hosted its first Black History Month Student Oratory Competition at Arellano Theater on Feb. 23. Four judges evaluated a series of student speeches. They stressed that the purpose of the competition was to give students a voice.
University President Ronald J. Daniels and his wife Joanne Rosen, an associate lecturer at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, announced that they will be establishing a $1 million financial aid endowment for first-generation undergraduate students at Hopkins.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and 2012 MacArthur Fellow Junot Díaz outlined how the current political climate has influenced his creative process at the Foreign Affairs Symposium (FAS).
Since its founding in 2011, the Hopkins chapter of Camp Kesem has supported children in Maryland whose family members have been affected by cancer by hosting a week-long summer camp.
A panel of students, faculty and administrators gathered on Thursday, Feb. 16 to discuss the University’s updated Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion, which was released last November.
Fight for $15 (FF$15) Baltimore, a coalition advocating for the city’s minimum wage to be raised from $8.75 to $15 per hour by 2022, held a rally in New Waverly United Methodist Church.
Cynthia Weber, international relations professor at the University of Sussex and the author of Queer international relations: sovereignty, sexuality, and the will to knowledge, gave a talk titled “Sovereignty, Sexuality and the Will of Trump” on Tuesday evening in Mergenthaler Hall.
As part of the Urban Health series on understanding racism and white privilege, the Johns Hopkins School of Education held a seminar open to the general public on Wednesday, Feb. 22 led by Christina Berchini.
The Student Government Association (SGA) passed a fossil fuel divestment resolution, an entrepreneurship funding bill, a bylaws amendment for student groups, and the FIJI Islander funding bill at its weekly meeting in Charles Commons on Tuesday.
Kelli Johnson was named the new director of pre-professional advising at Hopkins in late January, taking over from outgoing director David Verrier, who is retiring. Johnson has spent the last four years as the assistant dean and director for pre-professional advising at New York University (NYU).
The 8:32 Society, which strives to provide a network for Hopkins affiliates to understand their professions in the context of their Christian faith, hosted its inaugural Symposium on Faith, Reason and Vocation last Saturday. Students, alumni, faculty and staff gathered in Levering Hall to discuss the challenges and opportunities that Christians face in different academic disciplines and career fields.
The Carey Business School, founded at Hopkins in 2007, officially received accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The AACSB is widely recognized as the highest accreditation a business program can earn.
The third annual Public Health in Asia Symposium on Saturday featured two keynote speakers, Norman Epstein and Paul Kadetz, who discussed the culture of mental health care and antimicrobial resistance in China. The Symposium also included research on South Korea’s universal health care system which was presented by graduate students from the School of Public Health and an undergraduate freshman.
The African Students Association (ASA) hosted a forum on the black Muslim community in Baltimore on Tuesday, Feb. 21 in Charles Commons. The discussion revolved around Baltimore residents’ experience of the intersection between blackness and Islam.
Refuel our Future (ROF), a student-led fossil fuel divestment group at Hopkins, celebrated Valentine’s Day on Tuesday by handing out cards to raise awareness for Global Divestment Day and the University’s investment in fossil fuels.
Holly Taylor, Maria Merritt and David Dowdy spoke about social justice from the perspective of economic evaluation at a seminar hosted by the Berman Institute of Bioethics on Monday, Feb. 13. The seminar, called “The Incorporation of social justice into economic evaluation of novel drug regimens for MDR-TB,” is part of an ongoing series held twice a month.
After President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning travellers from seven Muslim-majority countries, universities, including Hopkins, have condemned the order.
