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Johns Hopkins University

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Johns Hopkins University

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...  Show more »
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.  « Show less

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    Jul 10, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  1. 'Plan 9': so bad it's good

    A half-century after it was made, movies still don't come any worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space, Edward D. Wood Jr.'s grade-Z sci-fi opus about aliens looking to take over the Earth by raising the dead and having them ... well, having them do something...

    Tags: Iron Man (movie), Robert Downey Jr., George Clooney, Charles Theatre, Brad Pitt

  2. Jul 10, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  3. Summer challenge: the 'brain drain'

    Summer can be a young mind's enemy. Not only are kids discouraged from tackling new concepts during lazy days of pool time and backyard play, but the long break from school, if not reinforced with summer learning, erodes knowledge gained from the...

    Tags: People, Colleges and Universities, Family, Mathematics, Trips and Vacations

  4. Jul 9, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  5. Grocers jump on 'local' produce bandwagon

    Signs atop the produce case in Baltimore-area Safeway stores promoted "local" apples from Virginia and New Jersey. But the Granny Smiths and galas in the case hailed from Chile and New Zealand.
    Baltimore Sun reporter
    Signs atop the produce case in Baltimore-area Safeway stores promoted "local" apples from Virginia and New Jersey. But the Granny Smiths and galas in the case hailed from Chile and New Zealand. Under a cute farm-truck mural and the words "Home Grown,"...

    Tags: Blueberries, Squash, Apples, United States, Safeway Inc.

  6. Jul 9, 2009 |Story| WPMT-LTV
  7. Swine Flu Confirmed at Dickinson College in Carlisle

    A summer enrichment camp at a central Pennsylvania college is closing down after a flu outbreak that includes one confirmed case of swine flu.
    A summer enrichment camp at a central Pennsylvania college is closing down after a flu outbreak that includes one confirmed case of swine flu. The summer program at Dickinson College in Carlisle is closing early after about 50 children reported symptoms....

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, Flu, Swine Flu, Diseases

  8. Jul 8, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  9. Competitive edge

    In one of his first acts in office, President Barack Obama directed the National Institutes of Health to issue new ethical guidelines lifting the extreme restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research imposed by the Bush administration in 2001.
    In one of his first acts in office, President Barack Obama directed the National Institutes of Health to issue new ethical guidelines lifting the extreme restrictions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research imposed by the Bush administration in...

    Tags: Martin O'Malley, Heads of State, Agricultural Research and Technology, Research, Space Programs

  10. Jul 6, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  11. Therapeutic cancer vaccines show promise

    It's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own  immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and lymphoma -- have achieved positive results in so-called Phase 3 clinical trials -- the kind of studies that the Food and Drug Administration requires for a medicine to gain approval.
    It's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and...

    Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, Symptoms, Oncology, Cancer, Vaccines

  12. Jul 5, 2009 |Story| Orlando Sentinel
  13. Countdown begins: Only weeks before UCF's medical-school classes start

    The University of Central Florida's new medical school soon will reach another major milestone: the first day of classes in its doctor-of-medicine program Aug. 3.
    Sentinel Staff Writer
    The University of Central Florida's new medical school soon will reach another major milestone: the first day of classes in its doctor-of-medicine program Aug. 3. You can see the days, hours, minutes and seconds ticking down on a countdown clock posted...

    Tags: Winter Park, Colleges and Universities, Medicines, University of South Florida, Lake Nona

  14. Jul 1, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  15. Raymond P. Srsic

    <span class=&quot;dropcap_large">R</span>aymond P. Srsic, a longtime Anne Arundel County pediatrician and professor of medicine whose practice spanned 50 years, died Thursday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
    Raymond P. Srsic, a longtime Anne Arundel County pediatrician and professor of medicine whose practice spanned 50 years, died Thursday of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 81 and...

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, Medicines, Severna Park, Lou Gehrig, Medical Doctors

  16. Jun 30, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  17. Dulaney High alum picked to be astronaut

    NASA Monday named Dulaney High School graduate and Navy Lt. Commander Gregory Reid Wiseman, 33, as one of nine candidates to begin astronaut training this summer.
    NASA Monday named Dulaney High School graduate and Navy Lt. Commander Gregory Reid Wiseman, 33, as one of nine candidates to begin astronaut training this summer. The Baltimore native is a test pilot serving with Strike Fighter Squadron 103 aboard the...

    Tags: Thomas Jones, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rocketry, Armed Forces, Space Programs

  18. Jul 1, 2009 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  19. In a tough economic year, Jewish charity hits mark

    While philanthropies everywhere struggle to pry dollars loose from communities reeling from the recession, Baltimore's Jewish federation is celebrating what in these times qualifies as an outstanding result: simply raising as much money as it did the year...

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, Judaism, Economic Policy, United States, Campaign Finance

  20. Jun 29, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Tobacco through the centuries

    <b>6,000 BC: </b>First cultivation of the tobacco plant in the Americas.
    6,000 BC: First cultivation of the tobacco plant in the Americas. 1 BC: Indigenous Americans begin smoking, chewing and using tobacco in enemas. AD 600-1,000: Mayans create smoking's first pictorial record on a pottery vessel. 1492: Christopher...

    Tags: People, Richard Nixon, Medical Doctors, Air and Space Accidents, Sales

  22. Jul 1, 2009 |Story| Newsday
  23. Jackson's hospital is known for 'raising the dead'

    Newsday Staff Writer
    When Michael Jackson went into cardiac arrest, rescuers took him to a place known for bringing the dead back to life. A world-renowned surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center has pioneered a way to revive people that most doctors would have long written off,...

    Tags: Medicine, Colleges and Universities, Medicines, Birmingham , University of Pennsylvania

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