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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 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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Baltimore Co. honors 1,200 volunteers for donating time
Pat P. Fraher retired a decade ago, but has never really stopped working. Fraher, 64, visits a nursing home weekly, knits blankets for needy newborns, serves as president of the Friends of Towson Library, whose annual book sale she just organized, and is...Tags: Manor Care Incorporated, Nursing, Towson, Long Term Care, Medical Specialization
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North County student wins Intel Science Fair's top prize
North County High School freshman Jack Andraka stood on the auditorium stage, speaking about the invention that earned him the $75,000 grand prize at the recent Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Behind him stood Dr. Anirban Maitra, a...Tags: Medical Research, College Sports, Health Treatments, Blood, Teaching and Learning
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Richard Paul Sullivan, chairman and CEO of Easco Corp.
Richard Paul Sullivan, a former chairman and CEO of Easco Corp. who had been active in Republican state politics and civic affairs, died Sunday of cancer at his Owings Mills home.
The longtime Guilford resident was 79.
Mr. Sullivan, whose father was...Tags: Finance, Towson University, Baltimore Museum of Art, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Companies and Corporations
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Alexander Ludlum "Lud" Michaux Jr., career officer in Marines
Alexander Ludlum "Lud" Michaux Jr., a decorated career Marine Corps officer who fought in three wars and later presided over the transformation of McDonogh School into a coeducational institution, died May 20 of heart failure at Brightview Mays Chapel...Tags: College Sports, Wars and Interventions, Anglicanism, Fort McHenry, Lacrosse
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HCC student overcomes obstacles, earns degree
On the day before graduating from Howard Community College, Jennie Wang of Columbia considered the arduous road she had traveled and her studies at the Johns Hopkins University that lie ahead. One thought came to mind:
"If my Hammond High School teachers...Tags: Schools, Graduation, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Howard Community College
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Researchers eye saliva for patient testing
No one likes to get stuck with a needle.
But it's the only way doctors can get blood to test for diabetes, anemia and numerous other health problems.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing say there is a much less invasive and...Tags: Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Heart Disease, Blood, Symptoms
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Thursday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and a chance of showers, with a high temperature near 81 degrees. Thursday night is expected to be mostly cloudy, with a low temperature around 68 degrees.
TRAFFIC
Check our traffic updates for...Tags: Natural Resources, Blood, Diabetes, Wildlife, Brian L. Roberts
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What Baltimore did for us
On the front page of the June 22, 1990, issue of The Evening Sun is an article with the headline "Flight from Saigon lands and family grows by 16." The article describes the emotional reunion of a sister with her 16 family members, who had spent the...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Morgan State University, Colleges and Universities, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Catherine E. Pugh
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Captive dolphins have less toxic mercury than wild animals
People aren't the only ones at risk from eating mercury-contaminated fish, since coal-burning power plants have liberally sprinkled the toxic metal across the earth's waters. But it appears that captive dolphins have a little less to worry about in...
Tags: National Aquarium Baltimore
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Tuesday
WEATHER
Today's forecast calls for cloudy skies, patchy fog and a chance of showers and thunderstorms, with a high temperature near 79 degrees. Monday night is expected to be cloudy, with a low temperature around 67 degrees.
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Check our traffic...Tags: Labor Legislation, Boston Red Sox, Memorial Day, Cancer, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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Implantable pain disk may help those with cancer
An estimated 3.5 million cancer patients around the globe are in severe pain from their disease, but many get no relief.
In poor countries the cost is considered too high for drugs like morphine when such opioids are often stolen, abused or not taken...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals, Substance Abuse, Healthcare Provider, Cancer
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Bin Laden realized the truth: Terrorism doesn't work
Five weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden publicly commanded his foot-soldiers to ramp up the violence against American civilians. But five weeks before his death, he privately instructed his lieutenants to refrain from killing any civilians....
Tags: Osama bin Laden, Ariel Sharon, Science, Al-Qaeda, World War II (1939-1945)
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