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Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is a gonorrhea medication t...

Two unidentified students leave the memorial service for Johns Hopkins University junior Miriam Deborah Frankl, 20, who was killed last month in a hit-and-run incident. The junior was a third-generation scientist, a sorority sister and the best friend that some ever had. Frankl's fami...

The Johns Hopkins University passed itself off as Harvard in a movie Monday without feeling the least bit flattered. "It feels degrading somehow," said Diego Ardila, 19, as he watched workers remove the words "Latrobe Hall" from a stately brick building and replace them with "Kirkland H...

Pateamine A, a natural product first isolated from marine sponges, has attracted considerable attention as a potential anti-cancer agent, and now a new activity has been found for it, which may reveal yet another anti-cancer mechanism. That's the assessment of Daniel Romo, a Texas A&a...

T homas Meighan Jr. was well-acquainted with accusations of recklessness and dangerous driving, long before Baltimore police charged him with a string of traffic offenses related to the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student two weeks ago.

Thomas L. Meighan Jr.'s white Ford F250 truck terrorized Baltimore for hours before and after its driver allegedly struck a 20-year-old Johns Hopkins University student in a fatal hit-and-run Oct. 16, according to a half-dozen witnesses who told police they saw the vehicle running red li...

Lengthy history of DUI charges for Thomas Meighan of Sykesville Baltimore City police Saturday arrested a Sykesville man in connection with the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student last week.

Driver sought in death of Hopkins student struck while crossing St. Paul St. The pickup truck being sought by police in the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student was found parked on a Northwest Baltimore street, and police continue to seek its driver, a city police spokes...

The Johns Hopkins University led the nation in research and development spending in fiscal year 2008, according to a new National Science Foundation report, and most other area institutions maintained their national R&D rankings in a down economy.

Carol W. Greider, a professor in the department of molecular biology and genetics at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was among three Americans named winners Monday of the 2009 Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering a key mechanism in the genetic operations of...

Johns Hopkins University police had alerted a student and his roommates to the possibility that there was a suspicious person lurking around their home and canvassed the area with the students before one of them killed an intruder with a samurai sword, Baltimore police disclosed late W...

Two laptops, PlayStation had been stolen from off-campus house Monday A Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, a Baltimore police spokesman said.

He has to wait in longer lines at the airport. He couldn't vote in last year's historic presidential election. But until he took over as president of the Johns Hopkins University in March, Ronald Daniels had never been denied a professional privilege because he is Canadian.

WAVY-TV Officials say the new facility will help attract top researchers to the medical school and away from competitors such as Johns Hopkins University, ... U.Va. opens $70.7 million facility for cancer researchRichmond Times Dispatch all 15 news articles »

  USA III Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. "Williams will do well at Johns Hopkins," Schoof said. "That's a good spot for him." DIEKROEGER UPDATE: Turns out Menlo School has had a higher draft pick than Diekroeger, who was selected the No. ...

 MT Montana is a wonderful state but it's a small state, there is not a medical school here, and it's a very competitive time to build world class research programs" Ames added. Johns Hopkins University awarded the neuroscience center a $600000 grant to ...

 Uganda The Zayed Makerere University Johns Hopkins University Family Centre will house a clinic and a nutritional centre under the Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration (MU-JHU), which has been conducting HIV/Aids prevention ...

 KY He earned his master's degree (1979) and doctorate (1988) in American history from The Johns Hopkins University. “I believe that public research universities are the key to our future. I am passionately committed to the mission of the University of ...

 NV The study by Robert Balfanz, a Johns Hopkins University research scientist, found 69 schools that graduated between 20 and 30 percent of students. Educators and government officials say they are working diligently to combat this issue and fix schools ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland, the Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Union Memorial Hospital, and several private ... Maryland Names Winners of Inaugural $3M Nanobiotech Grant ProgramGenomeWeb Daily News all 4 news articles »

 United States Researchers from the University of Maryland, the Johns Hopkins University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Union Memorial Hospital, and several private companies and a foundation were the recipients of the awards.

Straits Times  Arkansas A consumer watchdog Public Citizen Consumer and Dr. Victor Serebruany, a research professor at Johns Hopkins University, involved in early development of prasugrel, sent a letter to FDA to halt its review of the Lilly's drug prasugrel. ...

 NC Students accepted into the program will take bioscience regulatory affairs courses at Johns Hopkins' Montgomery County campus in Rockville and the school's main Homewood campus in Baltimore. Classes will also be available online. ...

Baltimore Sun BALTIMORE, Md. – Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was on hand yesterday to speak at the commencement address for Johns Hopkins University's graduating class. The Baltimore native spoke passionately about climate change but did not mention ...

Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore have submitted more than 1200 grant requests, including proposals to: •Upgrade and expand ... and more »

After years of flat government funding for medical and scientific research, officials at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore have been working overtime recently, putting in hundreds of grant requests in hopes of grabbing some of the $13 billion in s...

Two Montgomery County firms, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland are among the recipients of nearly $19 million state funding for stem ... and more »

AP Johns Hopkins University said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will address graduating seniors and receive an honorary degree. Pelosi will address seniors ... and more »

The international research team included Cornelia M. van Duijn, Ph.D., Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Aravinda Chakravarti, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University; Bruce Psaty, MD, Ph.D., University of Washington; and Vilmundur Gudnason, ...

 MD The goal this year is to be able to offer jobs to 7000 young people, according to Baltimore City officials. "Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins University have been tremendous YouthWorks supporters throughout the years," Mayor Dixon said at the ...

Gary Duane Rodwell, a developer and urban affairs expert in Baltimore, has been appointed to a six-year term on the Baltimore City Community College board of trustees by Gov. Martin O'Malley. Rodwell is president and chief executive of Rodwell Development Group LLC, which negotiates wi...

 MD By Lisa de Nike The Johns Hopkins University will hold a job fair on Saturday, May 2, seeking candidates for specialized science and administrative jobs expected to open up due to extra research funding in the federal government's economic stimulus ...

The Johns Hopkins University will hold a job fair May 2 for job seekers who may qualify for specialized science and administrative positions. The jobs do not exist, but Hopkins expects an unknown number of them to be created soon, thanks to extra research funding included in the federal ec...

Dr. Kay received his Bachelors of Science degree from Stanford University and his Doctor of Medicine degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. After medical school, Dr. Kay spent five years at Barnes Hospital of Washington University in ...

Two planning grants were awarded to MU-JHU Care in Uganda (a partnership between Makerere University and Johns Hopkins University) and Investigaciones Médicas en Salud (Health Medical Research) in Peru. The MU-JHU grant will support planning a research ...

University of Arizona News (press release) We know that to find cures for cancer, cutting-edge research is essential." Yeager joined the Arizona Cancer Center in 2005. A graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, his clinical and research activities focus on the ...

By Andrew Mytelka The American Association of Public Opinion Research has censured a Johns Hopkins University professor for refusing to disclose “basic facts” about his controversial research that estimated the number of civilians who have died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion is hundreds of thousand...

By greg@thefire.org (Greg Lukianoff) The other schools on FIRE's Red Alert list are: Johns Hopkins University, for passing a rule banning disrespectful speech on campus after punishing a student for a Halloween invitation it deemed to be offensive; Colorado College, for finding two studenst guilty of "violence" after th...

FIRE also informs prospective students and their parents about threats to rights on campus through Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource, a database with information on speech codes at over 400 colleges and universities, and through the Red Alert list of campuses that represent the...

By David Kirby In my book, Evidence of Harm, I noted that Dr. Neal Halsey, director of the Vaccine Safety Institute at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and a vaccine authority, said in 1999 that, "Mercury accumulated in women is transferred to their children prenatally and in breast milk." S...

By Lawrence Biemiller U.S. News & World Report released another of its ever-contentious rankings at midnight, this time picking what it says are the top graduate schools in various disciplines. Among the magazine’s listings: In business, Harvard and Stanford Universities tied for the Number 1 spot, foll...

George D. Kuh, director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University at Bloomington, pointed to findings of his group’s National Survey of Student Engagement as focal points for change. He suggested that colleges incorporate into their curricula “high-impact pract...

After a hiatus of more than five decades, the Johns Hopkins University’s literary journal The Hopkins Review will start publishing again this fall, according to The JHU Gazette. Founded in 1947 by the Hopkins Writing Seminars, the university’s writing program, the Review published wo...

By dahill Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, has been appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at The Johns Hopkins University.  She will be the first woman in the university’s history to hold that leadership post at Johns Hopkins.

By Newsdesk June 2 - 12. BIOLOGY OLYMPIAD — The Center for Excellence in Education will hold the USA Biology Olympiad for 21 competitively selected U.S. high school students at George Mason University. Students will attend labs and lectures in genetics, microbiology, protein and DNA chemistry, plant...

By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman E-voting machines have already been extensively studied and condemned by a wide range of expert committees, commissions and colleges, including the General Accountability Office, the Carter-Baker Commission, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Stanford Universi...

Now, the second ideal that has been ingrained in you by Hopkins is a commitment to use science to help people. That's true at the Medical School and it's true across Wolf Street at the Schools of Public Health, and Nursing. In fact, it is a calling that is at the very essence of the entire East Bal...

 UK - will find photos of Bryan and her students working on Johns Hopkins University`s 11th annual excavation at the Mut Temple Precinct in Luxor. ...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) What's the Universe made of? Don't worry if you don't have a clue, astronomers don't either. The Universe is dominated by a mysterious dark matter that seems to form the true mass of a galaxy, not the regular matter - like stars and planets - that we can actually see. Dr. James Jee from Johns Hopk...

 United States - The Johns Hopkins University researcher keeps two of these entreaties tacked to a wall in her office. One is from a 13-year-old ... Novel pancreatic cancer vaccine nudging survival rates higher Medical News Today (press release)