ABC News
May 13, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story includes comments from Andrew Cherlin, a professor of public policy at JHU’s Krieger School.
WZJ-TV
May 13, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Adam Riess, an professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School, is quoted.
WJZ-TV
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Marshall Kaplan of APL is quoted.
Kansas City InfoZine
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes a comment from Robert Balfanz, a research scientist in the Center for Social Organization of Schools.
Inquirer.net (The Philippines)
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on a Filipino American Grade 3 student who was recently honored at a ceremony for gifted children held by JHU’s Center for Talented Youth; CTY executive director Lea Ybarra is quoted.
BroadwayWorld.com
May 13, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports that Theatre Hopkins will open its final production of the season on Friday, June 12, at the Swirnow Theater in the Mattin Center on JHU’s Homewood campus.
Panama Star
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Israeli Mia Pomerantz and the Mexican Jorge Amaral are both graduates from the masters program at the Peabody Conservatory.
Maryland Daily Record
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This brief mentions that the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons has awarded the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview a three-year approval with commendation and an outstanding achievement award.
United Press International
May 13, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This news brief states that researchers from the School of Medicine and collaborators identified genes associated with blood pressure and hypertension. Aravinda Chakravarti, director of the university's Center for Complex Disease Genomics, is quoted.
Africa Science News Service
May 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This report focuses on a service developed in part by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs.
Ivanhoe’s Medical Breakthroughs
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes a comment from Josef Coresh, professor in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
Dark Reading
May 13, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on a possible identity fraud scam linked to a Johns Hopkins Hospital employee.
Howard County Times
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on a pandemic exercise being coordinated by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab; Ruth Vogel, program manager in the homeland protection business area at APL, is quoted.
Baltimore Sun
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article chronicles junior Chris Boland's journey from academically ineligible to top points producer for the Blue Jays.
Lacrosse Magazine
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article profiles a Virginia player who will compete against the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays this weekend.
Say Campus Life
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article sets the scene for this weekend’s NCAA playoff games, one of which will pit Johns Hopkins against Virginia.
The Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, Mass.)
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This sports column focuses on local high school baseball star and “math whiz” Kyle Neverman, who has committed to playing baseball at Johns Hopkins and expects to study chemical engineering.
Right Side Now
May 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This opinion piece states that The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education last year named Johns Hopkins University as its first-ever "Censor of the Year" for 2006.
**************************************************************** HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS Bloomberg.com
May 13, 2009
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said he will ask university presidents, deans, and students across the U.S. to help decide how to spend $37 billion in stimulus money. Chu, a Nobel Prize laureate in physics who came to President Barack Obama’s Cabinet from the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, said yesterday he was about to send a letter to universities and scientific societies, soliciting help with awarding grants.
Chronicle of Higher Education
May 14, 2009
The National Institutes of Health said it would consider imposing tougher regulations to reduce financial conflicts of interest in scientific research. But it might end up not doing anything.
Associated Press
May 13, 2009
President Barack Obama didn't shy away from the "snub" by Arizona State University officials who said he hadn't accomplished enough yet to earn an honorary degree. In a commencement speech Wednesday to a stadium full of young graduates, he said the officials were right.
Inside Higher Ed
May 14, 2009
While tenured faculty may feel more secure in their jobs than employees in more beleaguered industries, there’s little question that the quality of life many professors have come to expect is deteriorating at many institutions. Workloads are increasing while pay is stagnant or falling, and the threat of layoffs has brought an edginess to the Ivory Tower that some professors say hasn’t existed in decades.
WBUR.org
May 13, 2009
At Harvard, faculty, staff and students are suffering some of the most severe cutbacks the university has implemented in decades.
Associated Press
April 13, 2009
The mayor of Providence wants to slap a $150-per-semester tax on the 25,000 full-time students at Brown University and three other private colleges in the city, saying they use resources and should help ease the burden on struggling taxpayers.
Inside Higher Ed
May 14, 2009
A new study by scholars at Stanford University, the World Bank, and Italy's Bocconi University finds that college undergraduates let their peers influence their choice of major, often leading them into careers that were not best suited to their skills -- and ultimately diminished their income.
Inside Higher Ed
May 14, 2009
A listing of new appointments at Cleveland State U., Drexel U., Greenville College, Monroe CC, Stephens College, U. of Idaho, Western Washington U.
Wall Street Journal
May 12, 2009
These eight colleges offer tuition-free educations.
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