Washington Post
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports that ED applications are up by 10 percent to 1,155 at Johns Hopkins University.
New York Times
December 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this story, researchers from Johns Hopkins University surveyed 699 recent medical school graduates who had trained to become surgeons at 17 medical centers in the United States and found that 59 percent had been stuck by a needle at some point during medical school.
WJZ.com
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Matthew Crenson, KSAS political scientist, was interviewed for this article.
Deutsche Welle
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Daniel Hamilton of SAIS is quoted.
MarketWatch
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This piece mentions economist Steve Hanke of the Whiting School.
Maryland Morning
December 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Sara Bleich of the Bloomberg School of Public Health discusses "America's Health Rankings."
Anchorage Daily News
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Article notes that The Tribal Health Consortium is working with Johns Hopkins University, which will analyze the swabs people send in and get the results back to the consortium for follow-up.
ABS-CBN News
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story notes that in 1999, Johns Hopkins University doctors described two patients in their 70s who suffered TGA after having sex.
Detroit News
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story about books set in Detroit mentions poet/novelist Brad Leithauser's novel, "The Art Student's War"(Knopf, $28.95). Leithauser teaches fiction writing at JHU.
San Antonio Express-News
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This piece mentions JHU research on drop outs.
United Press International
December3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This UPI story reports on research led by Frank R. Witter of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health that indicates that common drugs for the treatment of asthma in pregnant women as well as pre-term labor may increase autism-spectrum disorder risk.
PTI (India)
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found that some commonly prescribed drugs for the treatment of asthma in pregnant women as well as pre-term labour increase the risk of autism and other psychiatric disorders in developing foetus.
San Jose Mercury News
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Jonathan Weiner of the Bloomberg School of Public Health is quoted.
Business Gazette
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story about Maryland businesses on Facebook notes that Johns Hopkins University has 5,596 fans on Facebook.
Forbes.com
December 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This HealthDay News story quotes Daniel J. Brotman, associate professor of medicine and director of the hospitalist program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Armenian Reporter
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this article, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey will make an appearance at JHU.
Malaysia News Net
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This IANS story reports that children exposed to cigarette smoke at home show a higher level of nicotine led by Sungroul Kim, research associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Baltimore Sun
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story quotes Gabrielle Dean, a curator and librarian who's in charge of the Poe collection at the Johns Hopkins University's Sheridan Libraries.
Philadelphia Public Schools Notebook
December 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Ruth Curran Neild of the Everyone Graduates Center is quoted.
Toronto Star
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This commentary was written by James Ron, who has taught at Johns Hopkins University.
Boulder Daily Camera
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: David Lampton of SAIS will speak on how the Obama administration is approaching China in a "China Town Hall" meeting.
WBOC-TV (Delaware)
December 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports that the two cases were diagnosed with flu during October and November hospitalizations at Johns Hopkins Hospital and both have recovered from influenza.
Baltimore Sun
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: A commentary authored by Miriam Alexander of the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
WJZ.com
December 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Robert Stevens of the School of Medicine is quoted.
Baltimore Sun
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This column about the Charm City circulator bus notes that it would tie the Johns Hopkins Hospital with Fells Point and Harbor East.
Hagerstown Morning-Herald
December 4, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Barkman was employed by the Johns Hopkins Research Center in Hagerstown.
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HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS
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December 4, 2009
David Wilson, a son of Alabama sharecroppers who earned a doctorate from Harvard and supervises Wisconsin's 13 two-year colleges, will become the 12th president of Morgan State University, school officials announced Thursday. Wilson will replace Earl S. Richardson, who plans to step down at the end of June after 25 years.
Chronicle of Higher Education
December 3, 2009
Research universities should prepare for the possibility that postdoctoral researchers will work to form unions by developing consistent policies on how postdocs are treated and establishing student support groups as alternatives to unions, a panel of deans said at the annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools.
Inside Higher Ed
December 4, 2009
Amid criticism, U.S. universities have quietly paid companies commissions to recruit students abroad. Now they're doing it publicly, and trying to standardize practices.
USA Today
December 3, 2009
A Washington-based investigative journalism organization said in a report this week that it found a "culture of secrecy" surrounding sexual assault cases on university campuses across the U.S.
Chronicle of Higher Education
December 3, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged college students Thursday to take advantage of their campuses' sporadic shipments of H1N1 vaccine before the holidays, adding that while the number of cases of the flu may be declining, "we're simply not out of the woods yet."
The New York Times
December 3, 2009
A New York appeals court ruled Thursday that the state could not use eminent domain on behalf of Columbia University to obtain parts of a 17-acre site in Upper Manhattan, setting back plans for a satellite campus at a time of discord over government power to acquire property.
The Baltimore Sun
December 4, 2009
A new report on university systems from 24 states, including Maryland, shows that low-income and minority students are not as well represented among those entering and graduating from four-year colleges as they are among high school graduates.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
December 4, 2009
Nevada has overestimated the number of higher education jobs so far "retained" with federal stimulus aid, according to a state budget official. The revised count is about 1,400, a steep drop from the nearly 2,100 that state and federal officials have touted for weeks.
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