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GTx drug meeting goals in clinical trial

11 Jun 2009 09:09:44 PDT

an investigator in the clinical trial and professor of medicine and oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said in a statement. ... and more »

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UVa med school opens cancer research facility

11 Jun 2009 04:58:21 PDT

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 »

Original story at Daily Press .

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It's a wrap: Say goodbye to the school year, but not before a review

10 Jun 2009 20:03:23 PDT

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. ...

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JHU, partners launch “Research Means Hope” campaign

10 Jun 2009 18:07:24 PDT

Virginia The JHU Gazette reports with medical science on the verge of numerous breakthroughs to cures and treatments for a host of human diseases, a coalition of research organizations led by The Johns Hopkins University and four other founding partners is ...

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NASA Set To Launch LRO June 17

10 Jun 2009 15:15:33 PDT

NY We have seen interesting areas, but we're not calibrated yet so we don't have quantative numbers so the analysis is ongoing," says Ben Bussey of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the deputy principal investigator on both Mini-RF ...

Original story at Aviation Week .

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Student Roundup

10 Jun 2009 02:09:00 PDT

NY Jessica Buicko of Altamont was named to the dean's list for the fall semester at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. The daughter of David and Maria Buicko, she is a biology major. David Rokeach of Colonie was named to the dean's list for the fall ...

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Johns Hopkins University news and blogs - July 04, 2009

04 Jul 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.

• Success, complication rates for ablation therapy of atrial fib are ... -- from TheHeart.Org
• Honfest, Greek Festival, and more family fun this weekend -- from Baltimore Sun
• Dr. Ron Paul prescribes pill for America's Fed-ache! -- from Liberty Maven
• Tuberculosis bacterium subverts basic cell functions -- from Science News
• Huntington's Disease Protein May Have An Accomplice -- from U.S. News & World Report
• Rocket Queen: Mad Love -- from Seattle Weekly
• Fact or Fiction: Dogs Can Talk -- from Scientific American
• Avid Radiopharmaceuticals to Present Clinical Trial Advances in ... - Business Wire -- from press release
• Donald N. Rothman -- from Baltimore Sun
• Ex-school board head takes system job -- from Baltimore Sun

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Finding Cybersecurity Talent - Interview with Tom Stanton of Johns ...

09 Jun 2009 14:54:36 PDT

New Jersey Academy of Public Administration and chaired its standing panel on executive organization and management. He co-edited Making Government Manageable: Executive Organization and Management in the 21st Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).

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City researchers to take part in study on autism causes

09 Jun 2009 10:00:00 PDT

JHU, Kennedy Krieger experts to examine both genetic, environmental factors Researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Kennedy Krieger Institute will take part in what's being called one of the largest studies to examine the early causes of autism.

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Blue Ridge seniors take home over $6 million in scholarships

09 Jun 2009 07:02:01 PDT

AZ Rambler will head to the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks before attending Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Simmons will first head to Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., and then go to UCSD. Yazzie will attend the University of ...

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Seeley Lake hosts Neuroscience retreat

07 Jun 2009 17:40:23 PDT

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 ...

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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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US advocacy group asks FDA to halt review of the Lilly's drug

03 Jun 2009 15:27:39 PDT

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. ...

Original story at TopNews United States .

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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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Pelosi gives commencement address at Johns Hopkins University

22 May 2009 09:46:28 PDT

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 ...

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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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Gary Rodwell named BCCC board trustee

30 Apr 2009 21:00:00 PDT

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...

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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...

Original story at Chronicle of Higher Education .

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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...

Original story at FIRE .

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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...

Original story at Chronicle of Higher Education .

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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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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...

Original story at Huffington Post .

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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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