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Hopkins aid workers off to Haiti
As early as Friday, a group of Baltimore-based aid workers from a Johns Hopkins University affiliate plan to land in earthquake-ravaged Haiti and join others from the region and the United States in taking the first steps beyond the rescues. They'll start rebuilding.
Wed, Jan 20 | from baltimoresun.com
Hopkins education dean, Ralph Fessler, retiring
Ralph Fessler, the founding dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education, is retiring after 27 years on the faculty. In announcing the retirement, Hopkins President Ronald Daniels praised Fessler for his "significant impact on the theory and practice of K-12 teacher prepa...
Wed, Jan 13 | from baltimoresun.com
Workers' comp research provides insight into curbing health-care costs
Analyzing physicians' practice patterns may hold valuable clues about how to curb the nation's rising health care costs, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Sun, Jan 10 | from EurekAlert
JHU president returns to work full-time after surgery
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels will return to work full-time next week after two months of recuperation from surgery to remove a tumor from his abdomen. It was not malignant and Daniels, 50, did not have to undergo follow-up therapy after his October surgery. A seven-...
Wed, Dec 30 | from baltimoresun.com
Vandergrift embodies trend toward small-town renewal
Dr. Eric J. Abrahamson, a fellow at Johns Hopkins University, is studying rural life in the Black Hills of South Dakota. In his research, he is looking at ... and more »
Sat, Dec 19 | from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Building up a new market for suborbital spaceflight
“We're talking about exploring the last frontier in the Earth's atmosphere,” said Larry Paxton of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University ... and more »
Mon, Dec 7 | from The Space Review
A Passion to Relive the Past [David Satter] - National Review Online
A Passion to Relive the Past [David Satter] National Review Online (blog) David Satter is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a visiting scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. ... and more »
Fri, Dec 4 | from National Review Online Blogs
Driving down the road to ruin
T homas Meighan Jr. was well-acquainted with accusations of recklessness and dangerous driving, long before Baltimore police charged him with a string of traffic offenses related to the hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student two weeks ago.
Sat, Oct 31 | from baltimoresun.com
New details emerge on events that led to samurai sword killing
Johns Hopkins University police had alerted a student and his roommates to the possibility that there was a suspicious person lurking around their home and canvassed the area with the students before one of them killed an intruder with a samurai sword, Baltimore police disclosed late W...
Thu, Sep 17 | from baltimoresun.com
Stimulus funds spur flurry of grant bids from researchers
After years of flat government funding for medical and scientific research, officials at the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore have been working overtime recently, putting in hundreds of grant requests in hopes of grabbing some of the $13 billion in s...
Tue, May 19 | from baltimoresun.com
Public-Opinion Researchers Censure Hopkins Scholar Over Findings on Iraqi Deaths
The American Association of Public Opinion Research has censured a Johns Hopkins University professor for refusing to disclose “basic facts” about his controversial research that estimated the number of civilians who have died in Iraq since the 2003 invasion is hundreds of thousand...
Thu, Feb 5 | from Chronicle of Higher Education
Liberty on Campus in 2008: FIRE’s Year in Review
FIRE also informs prospective students and their parents about threats to rights on campus through Spotlight: The Campus Freedom Resource, a database with information on speech codes at over 400 colleges and universities, and through the Red Alert list of campuses that represent the...
Tue, Dec 30 | from FIRE
'U.S. News' Releases 2009 Rankings of Graduate Schools
U.S. News & World Report released another of its ever-contentious rankings at midnight, this time picking what it says are the top graduate schools in various disciplines. Among the magazine’s listings: In business, Harvard and Stanford Universities tied for the Number 1 spot, foll...
Thu, Mar 27 | from Chronicle of Higher Education
Johns Hopkins U. Will Resume Publication of Long-Dead Literary Review
After a hiatus of more than five decades, the Johns Hopkins University’s literary journal The Hopkins Review will start publishing again this fall, according to The JHU Gazette. Founded in 1947 by the Hopkins Writing Seminars, the university’s writing program, the Review published wo...
Tue, Oct 2 | from Chronicle of Higher Education
Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: The Globalization of Electronic Election Theft
E-voting machines have already been extensively studied and condemned by a wide range of expert committees, commissions and colleges, including the General Accountability Office, the Carter-Baker Commission, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Stanford Universi...
Fri, May 11 | from Huffington Post
Podcast: Universe Today - Dark Matter Maps
What's the Universe made of? Don't worry if you don't have a clue, astronomers don't either. The Universe is dominated by a mysterious dark matter that seems to form the true mass of a galaxy, not the regular matter - like stars and planets - that we can actually see. Dr. James Jee from Johns Hopk...
Wed, Dec 14 | from Universe Today
