ABC News
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Story on research, conducted by School of Medicine's Juan Troncoso and team, which revealed that superior language skills in young adulthood may stave off Alzheimer's disease later on, even in people who have the brain plaque that is typically a precursor.
National Post (Canada)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Reuters story describes research, conducted by School of Medicine's Juan Troncoso and team, which revealed that superior language skills in young adulthood may stave off Alzheimer's disease later on, even in people who have the brain plaque that is typically a precursor.
HealthDay
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on a study co-authored by Diego Iacono, a research fellow in neuropathology in the School of Medicine, who is quoted.
Gant News (Pa.)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: All Headline News story about work by Juan Troncoso and team at the School of Medicine.
Irish Health
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Another article about a study, conducted by SoM's Juan Troncoso and team, linking superior language skills in young adulthood to less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Smash Hits (India)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: ANI report on study by SoM's Juan Troncoso and team, linking superior language skills in young adulthood to less risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
Channel 4 News (London, U.K.)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article focuses on a study led by Juan Troncoso, a professor of neuropathology in the School of Medicine.
Wired Science
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on a School of Medicine study, quoting co-author Diego Iacono, a research fellow in neuropathology.
BBC News Online
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports on a study led by Juan Troncoso, a professor of Neuropathology in the School of Medicine, who is quoted.
City Pulse (Lansing, Mich.)
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article profiles Johns Astin, mentioning his current Krieger School post as the director of the Program in Theatre Arts and Studies in the Writing Seminars Department.
Baltimore Sun
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Amanda Behrens of Johns Hopkins University's Center for a Livable Future, which deals with sustainability issues.
Washington Post
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Blair Pethel, an American who emigrated to France with his family to become a winemaker in Burgundy, holds a doctorate from the Peabody Institute.
Business World Online
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Story mentions work by Whiting School economist Steve Hanke.
McClatchy Newspapers
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Riordan Roett of the School for Advanced International Studies commenteed in this story.
National Review Online
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Column mentions Joshua Muravchik of the School for Advanced International Studies.
Nature News
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature includes comments from Garry Cutting, a cystic fibrosis researcher and pediatrics professor in the School of Medicine.
Augusta Chronicle (Georgia)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature concerns a Medical College of Georgia student who had the opportunity to meet and discuss her research with Nobel Prize winner Peter Agre, now director of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.
Armenian Reporter
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this story, Arturo Sarukhán, the ambassador of Mexico in Washington, earned his master's degree in U.S. foreign policy from Washington's Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (1991).
Carlisle Sentinel (Pa.)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Article reports that Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth (CTY) program at Dickinson College was temporarily suspended after about 40 of the 485 participants showed signs of the flu.
CNNHealth.com
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article quotes Nancy Collop, medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center.
WCBD-TV (South Carolina)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Article quotes Nancy Collop, Medical Director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center.
Space Daily
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature concerns a successful systems check of the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft, which is operated by JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory. Alice Bowman, New Horizons mission operations manager at APL, is quoted.
The Coloradan
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Director of a summer program aimed at preventing summer learning loss commented that her program operates "on the Johns Hopkins model, which prevents summer slide and really concentrates on links to learning."
Rediff News (India)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: In this online chat, overseas education consultant Karan Gupta recommends Johns Hopkins as a good place to enroll for an advanced degree in biotechnology.
The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This column mentions that Gwen Windham, who has just joined the faculty of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has a medical degree from Johns Hopkins.
The33tv.com (KDAF-TV – Dallas, Tex.)
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article cites a recent Johns Hopkins study of 40 Texas hospitals that found that hospitals whose technology ranked in the top third had 15 percent fewer deaths and a 21 percent decrease in complications.
Hagerstown Herald-Mail
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Dana Moylan Wright received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from JHU.
AME Info
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The 2009 Global Conference on Educational Robotics was held at the National Conference Center featured talks by internationally recognized robotics experts Johns Hopkins University and other academic institutions.
Ethiopian Review
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Michelle Carlson, Ph.D., the associate director of the Center on Aging and Health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, is quoted.
Al-Bawaba.com (United Arab Emirates)
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Tawam Hospital, in affiliation with John Hopkins Medicine performed the first Single Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS), a new method of surgery, for the first time in the UAE. Community Times (Westminster, Md.)
July 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature states that a new business called A Woman’s Touch Upholstery already has a contract with Johns Hopkins Hospital to reupholster waiting room chairs, examining tables, and other hospital furniture.
Baltimore Sun
July 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Johns Hopkins water polo standout Jamie Neuwirth and former Blue Jays standouts David Kraus (wrestling) and Mike April (baseball) are among the more than 8,000 athletes from approximately 60 nations who will participate in the 18th Maccabiah games in Tel Aviv, Israel, beginning on Friday.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS
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July 9, 2009
Fundamentally, the future of the liberal arts college is uncertain. The traditional residential liberal arts college offering a coherent educational program based firmly in arts and science fields and offering a shared intellectual experience to all of its students may be dying out. Or the liberal arts college may gradually be evolving into a new, more up-to-date form.
Inside Higher Ed
July 9, 2009
President Obama chooses the genome scientist Francis Collins as his nominee for director of the biomedical research agency.
Inside Higher Ed
July 9, 2009
Philip Day, the president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, was indicted Wednesday on a series of felony charges related to allegations from his previous job, as chancellor of the City College of San Francisco. The charges say that Day diverted college funds illegally to political campaigns that supported the college, such as bond measures. Such spending, if it took place, would violate California law.
Inside Higher Ed
July 9, 2009
Analysis of federal statistics shows rise in borrowing for college, especially costlier and riskier alternative loans.
Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 2009
Nearly 53 percent of full-time undergraduate students borrowed money to attend college in 2007-8, compared with 49.5 percent in 2003-4, according to the Education Sector's analysis of data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study. The proportion of students who borrowed at public two-year institutions and private, nonprofit four-year institutions stayed about the same over that time period, while the proportion at public four-year colleges grew slightly.
Chronicle of Higher Education
July 9, 2009
The economic crisis is wreaking havoc on colleges of all types and sizes. But to institutions trying to improve their academic profiles, like Hofstra University, the recession is causing the worst headaches. For them, tight credit markets, tapped-out donors, and squeezed budgets are threatening a backward slide no one expected.
Wall Street Journal – China Journal blog
July 9, 2009
Despite the global economic downturn, a reported 68 percent of China’s more than six million newly minted college grads have already managed to find employment, according to an announcement by China’s Ministry of Education on Wednesday.
New York Times – The Choice blog
July 8, 2009
This blog entry is about a recent Huffington Post article by the authors of “On My Own Two Feet: A Modern Girl’s Guide to Personal Finance,” who write about how with a changed economic landscape, people have lost sight of what they can afford to borrow, and the tenets of taking out loans in years past no longer hold true.
Bloomberg
July 9, 2009
The University of Virginia may double investments in private-equity, real estate and commodities as U.S. colleges are squeezed by commitments to fund managers made before financial markets collapsed.
Associated Press
July 8, 2009
For high school students who have the time and money to travel, visiting a college campus is the best way to get a sense of the students, the faculty, and the feel of the place where they’ll be spending four years (or more). But for those who can’t visit, or who are just beginning their search, there’s a Web site called YOUniversityTV, offering virtual tours of about 400 colleges and universities.
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