Baltimore Sun (AP)
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Andrew Pekosz, of the School of Public Health, is quoted in this Associated Press article.
The Washington Post
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The university is mentioned in a column about a new world ranking of top universities.
Maryland Daily Record
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This brief mentions School of Medicine scientist Carol W. Greider's Nobel Prize win for discovering an enzyme called telomerase.
Baltimore Sun
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: KSAS political scientist Matthew Crenson comments.
Baltimore Sun
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Bradley Herring of the School of Public Health is quoted.
New York Times Blogs
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this blog, nearly 60 years ago, a researcher with secret government clearance at Johns Hopkins University reviewed a set of military casualty statistics that confirmed something combat soldiers and military surgeons had long sensed intuitively: the human head suffers a disproportionate amount of trauma on the modern battlefield.
Providence Journal
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Robert Balfanz of the Center for the Social Organization of Schools is mentioned in this article.
Maryland Daily Record
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The university is mentioned in several letters.
Baltimore Sun
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Masi negotiated leases for many projects, including medical space for Johns Hopkins Community Physicians in Glen Burnie.
Daily Gleaner (Canada)
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This Associated Press story covers a study by Save the Children, the Gates Foundation and Johns Hopkins University that reveals that than two million babies and mothers die worldwide each year as a result of complications during childbirth.
Daily India
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This ANI story reports on a study led by Robert Black and Edgar Berman of the School of Public Health that reveals that even though low cost treatments for diarrhea are widely available, a huge number of children still die from diarrheal diseases.
Baltimore Sun
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story about what the athletes running the marathon will see mentions that the runners will go by bulldozed blocks and new rowhouses that are part of the Johns Hopkins Hospital redevelopment plan.
Fort Myers News-Press (Fla.)
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Local students are participating in a national algebra study by Johns Hopkins University.
North County Times (ca.)
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Edward Fisher earned a doctorate in chemical engineering in 1965 from JHU.
Baltimore Sun
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Joseph Boylan, Loyola University's athletic director since 1991, holds a master's degree from JHU.
Worcester Telegram
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Column mentions a Johns Hopkins Press book titled Wild Mammals of North America.
Patriot News (Pa.)
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Dickinson College will play JHU on Saturday for the position of first place in the Centennial Conference.
Stamford Advocate (Ct.)
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Jeremy Selbest (Greenwich), a junior goalie with the Johns Hopkins water polo team, was named CWPA Southern Division Player of the Week.
Baltimore Sun
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Kessler attended JHU.
The Washington Post
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The retired CIA employee received a master's degree from SAIS.
The Age (Melbourne, Australia)
October 10, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article mentions the contributions made by Nobel Prize winner Carol Greider of the School of Medicine when she was a graduate student being supervised by co-recipient Elizabeth Blackburn.
New Kerala (India)
October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports on a study conducted at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Researchers Robert Black and Christa Fischer Walker are quoted.
HealthDay
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature includes comments from David Tunkel, chief of pediatric otolaryngology at Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
Genome Web
October 08, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article about 970 stimulus grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health mentions that JHU will receive $10.7 million worth of genomics-related grants.
Turnto10.com (WJAR-TV, Providence, R.I.)
Friday, October 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes quotes from Robert Balfanz, a research scientist in the Krieger School's Center for Social Organization of Schools.
Statesboro Herald (Georgia)
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports that the three finalists being considered for the post of president of Georgia Southern University include Kathleen Long, who earned her doctorate in behavioral sciences from JHU.
Science News
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The article states that a new discovery of ice on an asteroid corroborates earlier observations of the same asteroid by Andrew S. Rivkin of the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory and fellow researcher.
The Capital (Annapolis)
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This editorial praises the School of Medicine's Carol Greider on her Nobel Prize in medicine and mentions the importance of Maryland having a world-class research institution such as Hopkins, which draws some of the best minds from around the globe.
VOA News (Voice of America)
October 8, 2009
North County Times (San Diego County, Calif.)
October 8, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The article states that inductee Edward Fisher earned a doctorate degree in chemical engineering in 1965 from Johns Hopkins University.
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Higher Education News
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New York Times
October 9, 2009
With the value of its endowment down by almost 30 percent, the world's richest university is learning to live with less: no cookies at faculty meetings, no pastries at Widener Library and no free sweat suits for varsity athletes.
New York Times
October 9, 2009
Op-ed columnist Paul Krugman suggests that education in America, suffering for years, is about to get much worse thanks to cuts caused by the financial crisis.
Chronicle of Higher Education
October 9, 2009
In the uncertain economic climate, some campus leaders are deciding that the costs of such endorsements outweigh the benefits.
Inside Higher Ed
October 9, 2009
Even as more and more colleges create profiles, fan pages, and Twitter feeds, the question of how best to take advantage of these adolescent technologies - and how influential they actually are in terms of recruiting students and prompting donations - remains largely unanswered.
Wall Street Journal
October 9, 2009
Obama spent two years at Occidental before leaving to complete his undergraduate studies at Columbia University. That has presented Occidental with a problem: How to deal with its most famous student who matriculated but didn't graduate.
Wall Street Journal
October 8, 2009
Harvard Professor Michael Sandel teaches hundreds of students about obscure moral dilemmas.
Washington Post
October 9, 2009
Twenty teams of college students take over the National Mall to show that solar-powered living is more than just a bright idea.
Associated Press
October 9, 2009
The hope is that a public discussion on college campuses, in high school auditoriums and online could inspire peers in distress to get help.
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