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The Johns Hopkins University is a private university located in Baltimore, with major campuses in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. Hopkins also has academic facilities in Nanjing, China, and in Bologna and Florence, Italy. It was the first research university in the United States. Johns Hopkins was opened in Baltimore in 1876 and is named after one of its benefactors, Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in 1873 for the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins' first name is Johns because it was the last name of his great-grandmother. The university and the Johns Hopkins Health System, which includes the hospital, now fall under the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Joh...
The Johns Hopkins University is a private university located in Baltimore, with major campuses in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. Hopkins also has academic facilities in Nanjing, China, and in Bologna and Florence, Italy. It was the first research university in the United States. Johns Hopkins was opened in Baltimore in 1876 and is named after one of its benefactors, Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in 1873 for the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins' first name is Johns because it was the last name of his great-grandmother. The university and the Johns Hopkins Health System, which includes the hospital, now fall under the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Johns Hopkins University is made up of nine schools, including the Peabody Institute, which became a part of Johns Hopkins in 1977. The university originally only admitted men; the first female undergraduates were admitted to Hopkins in 1970. Some female graduate students were allowed to attend Hopkins starting in 1877, but the university did not officially allow female graduate students until 1907. The university currently offers 49 majors for full- and part-time undergraduates. The Division III Johns Hopkins Blue Jays play in the Centennial Conference, but both men's and women's lacrosse at Hopkins are Division I teams and do not participate in the Centennial Conference. The Blue Jays colors are Columbia blue and black, but the university's colors are gold and sable. Notable Johns Hopkins alumni include actor John Astin, director Wes Craven, journalist Wolf Blitzer, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, biologist and author Rachel Carson, IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano, tuberculosis researcher George Comstock and former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
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Tuning in, not out
Timothy Leary is smiling somewhere. More than 40 years after the U.S. government banned hallucinogens - those dangerous hippie indulgences - and scoffed at the Harvard psychologist and anyone else who suggested they might have a legitimate use, federal...Tags: Timothy Leary, Research, Medical Specialization, Addiction, Mental Illness
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Extinction warning: Orangutans fall victim to logging, planting
Orangutan numbers have declined sharply on the only two islands where they still live in the wild, and they could become the first great-ape species to go extinct if urgent action isn't taken, a new study found. The declines in Indonesia and Malaysia...Tags: Population, Illnesses, Medical Research, Weather Reports, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Dr. Barry S. Gold
Sun ReporterDr. Barry S. Gold, a Baltimore internist and herpetologist who was an international expert on the management and treatment of venomous snakebites, died Monday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. The longtime Pikesville resident was 61. Barry Steven Gold...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Animals, Family, New York Times, Pikesville
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Study assesses financial fallout from drug abuse
Drug and alcohol abuse sets people on a path toward heart disease, cancer and other chronic illnesses. A study in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment reports that hospital costs for this medical fallout can be substantial - and could be avoided...Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Hospitals and Clinics, Western Medicines, Diseases, Heart Disease
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Water traces on Mercury
Sun reporterInstruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphere, scientists reported yesterday. It's not clear...Tags: Health and Safety at School, History, Disasters, Space Programs, Natural Science
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Flora Wallace
Sun ReporterFlora Wallace, a retired social worker and former Sun music critic who established a scholarship at the Peabody Conservatory, died of pneumonia Sunday at the Roland Park Place retirement community. The former Homeland resident was 86. Born Flora Murray...Tags: Armed Forces, Classical Music, Defense, National Government, Peabody Conservatory
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Dance
Performance Dance Place3225 Eighth St. N.E., Washington / 202-269-1600. •8 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday: Deviated Theatre. $8-$22. Participatory Accent on LatinTowson / 410-828-0232. Latina-taught group dances for energy and health. Monday and...Tags: Event Planning, Folk Music, Dancing, Radio Industry, Dance
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Scientists: Planet Mercury is shrinking
Mercury is not just the solar system's shrimpy kid brother, at least since Pluto was kicked out of the planetary club two years ago. It's shrinking. New measurements taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft earlier this year show that the innermost planet...Tags: Disasters, Space Programs, NASA, Natural Disasters
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Study finds long benefit in illegal mushroom drug
AP Science WriterIn 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open. But she...Tags: Research, Medical Specialization
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Study finds long benefit in 'magic mushrooms'
Associated PressIn 2002, at a Johns Hopkins University laboratory, a business consultant named Dede Osborn took a psychedelic drug as part of a research project. She felt like she was taking off. She saw colors. Then it felt like her heart was ripping open. But she...Tags: Research, Medical Specialization
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