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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 th...
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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Hopkins' planned Science City becomes bone of contention in Montgomery
The state came to Montgomery County's east side a few years ago bearing gifts: a redesigned U.S. 29 to speed commuters through to destinations in Howard County and the District. But soon after the roadwork was completed, new problems arose. Nearby...Tags: Human Rights, Local Authority, Science, Economic Policy, Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama)
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Let's get rational about health care 'rationing'
Current medical practice is enormously expensive, often without clear long-term benefits. A few examples: •End-of-life care at New York University averaged $105,000 per patient in the last two years of life, without evident improvement in mortality...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Finance, Demographics, Health Insurance, Diseases
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Henrietta Lacks' 'Immortal' roots
When a freak snowstorm shut down the Memphis, Tenn., airport late last month, Rebecca Skloot's flight to New York was canceled. So Skloot drove five hours to St. Louis to catch a plane from there. The science journalist had spent 10 years working on her...Tags: Transportation, ABC, Amazon.com Inc., Diseases, Book
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Constitutionally illiterate
On Nov. 5, Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the House minority leader, took the podium at a Republican rally, waved a document defiantly and declared:"This is my copy of the Constitution, and I'm going to stand here with the Founding Fathers who wrote in the...Tags: Laws, Democracy, History, Jerry Falwell, Constitutional Issues
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Emergency personnel battle clogged streets, balky walkers
With mounds of snow making Baltimore sidewalks impassable Saturday, many pedestrians took to the middle of the streets, following paths carved by plows or trucks. And that drove Don Dziwulski a little nuts.
A 12-year-veteran of the Baltimore Fire...Tags: Fires, Charles Village, Hospitals and Clinics, Emergency Planning, Vehicles
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Philip Edward Klein
Philip Edward Klein, who built 30 shopping centers during a lengthy career in Baltimore real estate appraisal and development, died of pneumonia Jan. 28 at Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla. He lived in the Cheswolde section of Northwest...Tags: Reisterstown, Real Estate, Dundalk, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Banking
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D. Randall Beirne
Daniel Randall Beirne, a West Pointer and retired Army officer who later had a second career as a University of Baltimore professor of sociology and history and was considered an authority on Baltimore history, died Wednesday of heart failure at his...Tags: Hampden, Dining and Drinking, Sociology, Social Sciences, West Point
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Local releases
Special to The Baltimore Sun'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,' Rebecca Skloot, Crown, 320 pages, $26. Although Henrietta Lacks died of cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, her cells are alive 60 years later. Unlike most cells, hers (renamed HeLa, from her first and last...Tags: Death and Dying, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Towson University, Diseases, Cancer
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A 'new wave' out of Israel
Long live the consciousness of the pure who can see and hear!" That declaration of the immortal Soviet filmmaker Dziga-Vertov also sums up the attitude of Israeli documentary-maker Dan Geva, who has come to Baltimore as a Schusterman Visiting Artist. The...Tags: Yitzhak Rabin, Judaism, Gaza Strip, Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Industry
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Patricia S. Hook
Patricia S. Hook, a retired Anne Arundel County public school educator who was also a puppeteer, actor and longtime freelance theater and music critic, died Jan. 25 from complications of Parkinson's disease at Hospice of the Chesapeake's Mandarin House in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Helen Hayes, American Theatre, Hospitals and Clinics, Public Schools
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Donald L. Streckfus, aeronautical engineer
Donald L. Streckfus, a retired aeronautical engineer and longtime Columbia resident, died Jan. 19 of complications from an infection at Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center in Richmond, Va.. He was 77.
Born in Baltimore, he was the son of John G....Tags: Reisterstown, Melbourne, Nuclear Power, Engineering
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Attorney sees double standard at work in hotel-beating indictment
Last week, the Baltimore state's attorney's office declined to prosecute a Johns Hopkins University student from New Jersey who investigators concluded "feared for his safety" when he used a samurai sword to kill an unarmed intruder. This week,...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Defendants, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Standards, Assault
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