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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 In...
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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Stewart H. Hulse
Stewart H. Hulse, a retired Johns Hopkins psychology department chairman who studied how birds use their song and found they possess absolute pitch, died of pneumonia Aug. 31 at Union Memorial Hospital. The former Lutherville resident was 77. Dr. Hulse...Tags: Natural Science, Zoology, Popular Music, Lakewood, Animals
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The long voyage out
Alice Bowman is the mission operations manager (M.O.M.) for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, now on course for a rendezvous with the (former) planet Pluto in 2015. It's her job to watch over the health of the spacecraft, to manage continuing upgrades and...Tags: Applied Physics, NASA, University of Virginia, Space Programs, Applied Science
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Bold times, bold art
Of The Morning CallSheryl Oring is a performance artist who invites the public to perform the art of good citizenship. In ''I Wish to Say'' she sits in a portable office dressed in 1950s clothes and types messages from spectators to George W. Bush on an antique keyboard....Tags: The White House, Dave Brubeck, Florida State University, David Hernandez, Illegal Immigrants
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Not Coping With Alzheimer's Alone
Baby boomers' ability to contend with Alzheimer's disease will depend on lessons they pick up today about the scourge. Americans are living longer. Health officials have noted drops of more than 6 percent in stroke and chronic lower respiratory...Tags: Heart Disease, Diseases, Alzheimer's Disease, Medical Research, Family
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The frontierswomen
Sarah Palin should thank Gloria Steinem. Without the feminist leader and the movement she helped inspire, it's hard to imagine a mother of small children becoming governor of Alaska - much less a nominee for vice president of the United States.
But Ms....Tags: Executive Branch, Culture, Family, Government, Gloria Steinem
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Activist chaplain opened new horizons
To my surprise, the passing of the Rev. Chester Wickwire affected me deeply and brought back memories that have been slumbering for many years at the back of my mind ("Hopkins chaplain, activist, 'consummate humanist,'" Sept. 2). During my sophomore year...Tags: Reisterstown, Family
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Post to be installed as Boys Latin headmaster
Baltimore Sun reporterChristopher J. Post, the former principal of Loyola Blakefield, will be installed as the 14th headmaster of the Boys' Latin School at 10:40 a.m. tomorrow at the Gelston Athletic Center. Boys' Latin chose Post, 38, who worked just a few miles away,... -
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SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 14 RV Outdoor Show, Fairgrounds THROUGH SEPT. 18 Contemporary Ceramics from Wales, Clayworks THROUGH SEPT. 18 Symbiosis: Animal and Human Form, Clayworks THROUGH OCT. 5 Tableware Show, Potters THROUGH DEC. 8 Selling the Candidates:...Tags: Libraries and Museums, Mount Vernon Place, So You Think You Can Dance, Cole Porter, Towson University
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Film schedule
SEPTEMBER THROUGH SEPT. 30 A Glimpse of de Kooning, National THROUGH OCT. 2 Movies, Motion and Media: Altered Perspectives, A Film Series, Stevenson SEPT. 16-30 MICA Maryland Film Festival Film Series, MICA SEPT. 6 Afghanistan on Film, National SEPT. 6-...Tags: Film Festivals, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Rivers, Senator Theatre, Metal and Mineral
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Business notes
Management skills session scheduled The Association of Community Services is offering a four-part series of skill-building sessions for new and experienced managers from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 18 and 25 and Oct. 2 and 9. The Management Skills:...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Academic Progress, National Government, Unisys Corporation, AT&T Corp.
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Art schedule
SEPTEMBER ONGOING Art of the Ancient Americas, Walters ONGOING Palace of Wonders: The Galleries of Renaissance and Baroque Art, Walters THROUGH SEPT. 7 Faces of Ancient Arabia: The Giraud and Carolyn Foster Collection of South Arabian Art, Walters THROUGH...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Libraries and Museums, American Visionary Art Museum, Photography, Alfred Stieglitz
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