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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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Texting while walking emerging as possible danger for pedestrians, drivers
The night started out right — good friends, carousing, the lead-up to an out-of-town wedding.
But between festivities, after Nicole King popped into her hotel room to change clothes and was heading back out, she wanted to text her pals to find...Tags: Lexington Market, Craigslist, Inc., Charles Village, University of Maryland Medical Center, University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Sports notices: Thunder U-14 girls are holding soccer tryouts
Submitting sports notices The deadline for submitting sports copy is 9 a.m. Monday. We prefer email (howardcountysports@patuxent.com). Questions? Call 410-332-6578. Soccer Thunder Soccer Club is holding tryouts for its rising U-14 Girls WAGS Division I...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Cancer, National Football League, Health Treatments, Lacrosse
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Charles Street bragging rights
In most big-time Division I college sports, a relatively small school like Loyola University Maryland doesn't have a chance. It has fewer than 4,000 undergraduate students, and the Jesuit school puts an emphasis on academic excellence, not training future...
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Crime log: Pedestrian robbed at gunpoint; gas station ransacked
Barclay Street 2900 block, between 1 p.m. May 24 and 2:30 a.m. May 25. Garmin GPS, iPod, JVC car radio stolen from vehicle. North Calvert Street 2500 block, between 10 p.m. May 22 and 6:50 a.m. May 23. DeWalt impact wrench, Husky tool bag stolen from...Tags: Theft, PlayStation, Apple iPod, Cell Phones, Garmin Ltd.
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Baltimore Co. honors 1,200 volunteers for donating time
Pat P. Fraher retired a decade ago, but she has never 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: Lou Gehrig's Disease, Long Term Care, Towson, Baltimore County, Manor Care Incorporated
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Lyme disease tick study stirs dispute
Hundreds of Baltimore-area families have volunteered for a government study to spray their suburban yards with pesticide, which researchers hope can protect them from Lyme disease but that environmentalists warn is unsafe.
The goal, federal and state...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Lyme Disease, Headaches, Howard County, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Dr. Mark E. Molliver, Hopkins neuroscientist
Dr. Mark E. Molliver, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professor emeritus of neuroscience and neurology, died of complications after cardiac arrest May 10 at Hopkins Hospital. The Canton resident was 75.
Colleagues said his discoveries had...Tags: Roland Park, Boston, Natural Resources, Wetlands, Harvard University
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Edward E. Sommerfeldt, former Coppin chair
Edward E. Sommerfeldt, who founded the computer science program at Coppin State University where he taught for 39 years and served as a mentor to students and faculty, died May 14 of complications from brain cancer at Gilchrist Hospice in Towson. He was...Tags: Cancer, Roman Catholicism, Applied Physics, Science, Coppin State University
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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: Wars and Interventions, Awards and Prizes, Armed Forces, Anglicanism, United Nations
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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: Roland Park, Owings Mills (Baltimore, Maryland), Cancer, Elections, William Donald Schaefer
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Lacrosse stick maker STX invests in new ideas
Inside a converted warehouse in Pigtown, off limits to most company emplyees, designers and engineers dream up and test equipment for one of the nation's fastest growing sports. They follow in the foot steps of company founder Richard B.C. Tucker, a 1951...Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Lacrosse, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Corporate Performance, Field Hockey
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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: Ariel Sharon, Al-Qaeda, West Point, Saudi Arabia, Abusive Behavior
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