Why [Not] Us? Top Reasons Our Students Accepted Or Rejected Internship Offers

With summer nearing its end, summer internships coming to a close, and a new internship recruiting season upon us, there’s a question we’re pondering: what makes a student accept or reject an internship offer?

When considering possible answers to this …

By Angel Odukoya
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A list of companies supporting abortion rights after the Roe v. Wade ruling shows which firms are stepping up, and why

Source: Fortune

It’s not “woke CEO” ideology that drives corporate civic actions. This is demonstrated by the results of our in-depth study of the scores of first-mover companies—118 so far—that have publicly responded to last week’s Supreme Court rollback

By Belle To
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Inaugural FastForward U Summer Incubator Program Helps Students Live and Breathe Their Startups

Source: JH Tech Ventures

Maddy Sukhdeo always wanted to start a business. But the rising Johns Hopkins University (JHU) senior is double majoring in psychology and writing seminars, works part-time, and is on her sorority’s council, so finding the time …

By Belle To
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For Student Founders with Disabilities, Entrepreneurship is Personal

The following was written by Erica Avery, FastForward U’s communications intern. July is Disability Pride Month.

While many devices designed by biomedical engineers have passed through FastForward U’s doors to treat illnesses and physical disabilities, some founders are approaching supporting …

By Belle To
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Should I list my “boring” summer job on my resume?

You can use any work experience to build out your resume—here’s how.

Source: Handshake

If you didn’t have a fancy internship this summer, don’t worry. You can use any work experience to build out your resume, if you do it …

By Belle To
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Acclaimed Indigenous health researcher Donald Warne joins School of Public Health

He will serve as co-director of the Center for American Indian Health and as the school’s Provost Fellow for Indigenous Policy

By Hub

Acclaimed physician and public health researcher Donald Warne, a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine …

By Belle To
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The Benefits Women Look For

In 2020, the International Labour Organization and the United Nations published a comprehensive report in collaboration with the EU with specific recommended policies and practices for increasing gender equality at work.

There are five key themes, with recommended practices for …

By Alia Poonawala
Alia Poonawala Executive Director, Hire Hopkins
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The Principle of Life Design

You may have heard us throw around the terminology “life design” a bunch. But apart from a fun-sounding practice, what does it entail? When Farouk Dey, our Vice Provost of Integrative Learning and Life Design arrived at JHU in 2018, …

By Alia Poonawala
Alia Poonawala Executive Director, Hire Hopkins
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Scared of Burnout This Fall? Here’s How To Avoid It!

During the past fall semesters,  many students experienced the struggle of fighting to stay awake as they “went to class” by joining a Zoom lecture.

It isn’t a surprise that attending classes in their dorm continuously crossed the lines between …

By Maureen Onyebuchukwu
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Doing a Little Bit of Everything: Interning as a Remote Data Scientists at Milemarker

Ege Seyithanoglu (Data Science Intern @ MileMarker / InBaltimore Cohort 2022) 

Being an intern is a relatively new experience for me, with the pandemic and everything that has been going on in recent years, it is something that I inevitably had to …

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