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Enrollment under way for Hopkins youth program

19 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

Parents interested in having their children participate in the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth have until Nov. 30.

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1930s drug slows tumor growth

04 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

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...

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Hopkins victim 'a remarkable woman'

03 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

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...

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Many at Johns Hopkins irked by school's playing Harvard in movie

02 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

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...

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New activity found for a potential anti-cancer agent

01 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

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...

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Driving down the road to ruin

31 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

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.

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Johns Hopkins University news and blogs - November 24, 2009

24 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Johns Hopkins University news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Many at Hopkins irked by school's playing Harvard in movie -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland
• A truck's harrowing path through the city -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland
• Man arrested in hit-run -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland
• Arrest made in hit-and-run death of Hopkins student -- from baltimoresun.com - News
• Baltimore police begin testing gunfire-detection system -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland
• Owner of truck sought in death of JHU student turns himself in -- from baltimoresun.com - News
• BREAKING NEWS Police question owner of truck suspected in hit-and-run death -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland
• Hopkins student dies of injuries -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland
• Hopkins student struck by hit-and-run driver dies early Saturday -- from baltimoresun.com - News
• Hopkins student critically injured by hit-and-run near campus -- from baltimoresun.com - Maryland

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Police find hit-and-run truck in death of Hopkins student, 20

18 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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Hopkins professor among Nobel winners in medicine

05 Oct 2009 08:58:00 PDT

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...

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New details emerge on events that led to samurai sword killing

17 Sep 2009 03:27:00 PDT

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...

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12 nanobiotechnology projects get state funds

04 Jun 2009 17:17:37 PDT

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 »

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12 nanobiotechnology projects to get state funding

04 Jun 2009 15:04:45 PDT

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.

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Johns Hopkins University, BD Diagnostics to team on bioscience degree

03 Jun 2009 11:59:15 PDT

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. ...

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Stimulus funds spur flurry of grant bids from researchers

19 May 2009 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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Hopkins to interview for specialized jobs

24 Apr 2009 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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Public-Opinion Researchers Censure Hopkins Scholar Over Findings on Iraqi Deaths

05 Feb 2009 09:58:42 PST

Written 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...

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2008 Highlights: FIRE Places Full-Page Ad in ‘U.S. News & World Report’ Calling Out ‘Red Alert’ Schools

31 Dec 2008 07:15:00 PST

Written 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...

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Liberty on Campus in 2008: FIRE’s Year in Review

30 Dec 2008 07:29:00 PST

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...

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'U.S. News' Releases 2009 Rankings of Graduate Schools

27 Mar 2008 20:22:12 PDT

Written 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...

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Academic Leaders Offer Thoughts on Reforming Higher Education at AACU Meeting

27 Jan 2008 15:08:26 PST

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...

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Johns Hopkins U. Will Resume Publication of Long-Dead Literary Review

02 Oct 2007 10:50:06 PDT

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...

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First Woman Engineering Dean at Duke Named First Woman Provost at Johns Hopkins

20 Aug 2007 11:21:41 PDT

Written 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.

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Swamp Sunrise

04 Jun 2007 04:00:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: The Globalization of Electronic Election Theft

11 May 2007 09:57:06 PDT

Written 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...

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Joshuah Bearman: Sane Republican?

26 May 2006 21:36:51 PDT

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...

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Podcast: Universe Today - Dark Matter Maps

14 Dec 2005 14:00:00 PST

Written 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...

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