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Where are the STEM jobs?
Republicans and Democrats appear to agree on at least one thing: that the United States is facing a STEM (science, technology engineering and math) crisis. In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that he wants to...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Engineering, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Graduation
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Frances M. Finney, educator
Frances M. Finney, who overcame poverty, earned a college degree and became a city school teacher, died April 19 from heart failure at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Guilford resident was 82. Frances Mae Hopkins was born in Baltimore and was...
Tags: Durham (Durham, North Carolina), High Schools, The Women (movie, 2008), Civil Rights, Housing and Urban Planning
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Lewis E. Porter, civil engineer
Lewis E. Porter, a retired civil engineer who during his more than four-decade career designed roads and highways for the Baltimore County Department of Public Works, died May 18 from mesothelioma at his Wiltondale home. He was 75. The son of an...
Tags: Mesothelioma, Photography and Video, Photography Supplies and Services
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Time for greens to embrace nukes
For too long, many environmentalists have been ambivalent about nuclear energy. It conjures fears: meltdowns, cancers, Chernobyl, Fukushima, overtones of nuclear bombs. Yet, we also know that nuclear power provides 70 percent of all the greenhouse gas-...
Tags: Energy Resources, Science, Energy Saving, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy
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Gun research a waste of time, money
Johns Hopkins University receives billions of tax dollars and for the past 23 years they have used these tax dollars to support a Center for Gun Policy and Research ("Gun research is not biased," May 20). What a waste of our tax dollars. Most...
Tags: Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy
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Hopkins closes science writing program, citing low selectivity
Graduates of the Johns Hopkins University's master's program in science writing have explained the prospects of life on Mars, the promise of neuroscience research and the ethics of animal testing on the pages of Scientific American, Nature and Popular...Tags: Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Authors, Agricultural Research and Technology
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Ben Carson's remarks 'denigrated' homosexuals [Letter]
I have to disagree with Diane Brown ("Only closed minds stifle opposing viewpoints, May 16) on both her key points about Ben Carson's remarks on marriage equality and the opposition to him giving the commencement speech at Johns Hopkins University this...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Hopkins students notable in their absence in Charles Village
Loading his earthly belongings into a laundry cart that he rented from Campus Services, Johns Hopkins University freshman Austin Dennis made several trips from his dormitory room to his car on residential Greenway at North Charles Street, opposite the...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Verizon Wireless, Business, Charles Village, Teaching and Learning
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Hopkins gun research is not biased
In reference to "Harford County Council passes resolution condemning state gun law" (May 15), the article quotes a Harford County councilman who questioned the objectivity of gun policy research at Johns Hopkins University because New York City Mayor...
Tags: New York City, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control, Laws, Research
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Drugs and Medicines, Health Organizations, Heart Disease, Research
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Highlights from Johns Hopkins conference call
In light of Johns Hopkins president Ronald J. Daniels accepting the recommendation of a seven-member special committee to explore joining a conference, university athletic director Tom Calder and men’s lacrosse coach Dave Pietramala participated...
Tags: ESPN (tv network), ESPNU (tv network), Lacrosse
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Harford County Council condemns state gun law
The Harford County Council passed a resolution Tuesday, by a 6-1 vote, criticizing the state's new gun safety bill. The resolution says the Firearms Safety Act, which bans the sale of 45 kinds of rifles and magazines and requires "law-abiding citizens"...
Tags: FBI, Laws, Cecil County, Research, Daniel Webster
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