Baltimore Sun September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: The newspaper printed the text of a speech made by JHU President Ronald J. Daniels at his installation on Sunday at Shriver Hall.
Inside Higher Ed September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports that JHU President Ronald J. Daniels was among five university presidents who took the stage Monday at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s inaugural meeting to push for intellectual and financial support for global health.
Baltimore Sun September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports that a JHU student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into the garage of his off-campus residence early Tuesday, according to Baltimore police.
Baltimore Sun (AP) September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This Associated Press story reports that a Johns Hopkins University student armed with a samurai sword killed a man who broke into his off-campus residence.
USA Today September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Krieger School civility expert and author P. M. Forni comments.
San Diego Union-Tribune September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: P. M. Forni, a Krieger School professor and civility expert, is quoted.
The Columbus Dispatch September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Krieger School professor and civility expert P. M. Forni is quoted.
Kingsport Times News (NY) September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This editorial mentions Krieger School professor and civility expert P. M. Forni.
New York Times September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Anthony Kalloo, a professor of medicine at the School of Medicine, comments in this story about the human pancreas.
Bloomberg News September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Article mentions that the Bloomberg School of Public Health is named in honor of New York City Mayor and JHU alumnus Michael Bloomberg.
Red Orbit (United Press International) September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: A study by Gayle Page and Sharon Kozachik of the School of Nursing describes pain as an exquisite stressor affecting mood, sleep, the abilities to heal, and to fend off infection and illnesses.
Red Orbit (United Press International) September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this article, researchers at the Bloomberg School of Public Health collaborated with colleagues at Columbia University on a study that determined that mandatory alcohol testing programs for truck and bus drivers have been a factor in reducing alcohol involvement in fatal crashes.
Education Week September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This notice announces that Joyce L. Epstein, director, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools at JHU, will chat online with readers of Education Week at 2 p.m. on September 15.
Staunton News-Leader (Va.) September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This story notes that JHU is among colleges reporting between one and 37 cases of H1N1 on campus.
Las Vegas Sun September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This article mentions that classical guitarist Ricardo Cobo received his bachelor's in music from Peabody.
ABC2News.com (Baltimore) September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: This report focuses on remarks made by former Sentor Tom Daschle at a health care symposium in Baltimore sponsored by Stifel Nicolaus and the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Washington Examiner September 15, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this story, JHU is a supporter of the plan for a proposed "Science City."
WCCO.com (Minneapolis) September 14, 2009
Johns Hopkins angle: Krieger School sociologist and marriage expert Andrew Cherlin is interviewed.
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Inside Higher Ed September 15, 2009
By last September, the economy had taken a dive, leaving many Americans in significantly worse financial circumstances. So it was little surprise that when the federal government presented its latest data on student loan defaults -- which focused on a period ending in September 2008 -- the numbers showed a sharp upturn reflecting borrowers' increased economic distress, rising to their highest level in a decade.
Chronicle of Higher Education September 14, 2009
The student-loan industry, which learned late Friday that its loan overhaul plan would save the government $13-billion less than legislation to end bank-based lending, got another bit of bad news on Monday when the Education Department released its annual cohort default rates.
Chronicle of Higher Education September 14, 2009
Nearly 400 colleges are expected to submit their climate action plans this week, a major step in the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment. The heavily detailed reports, which took colleges many months to produce, map out strategies for limiting emissions for decades to come. But the hard work has just started.
Denver Post September 15, 2009
This is the last semester in which college students can be inundated with credit- card offers on campus before new federal rules restricting the practice take effect in February. Yet card issuers are running the gamut, some beefing up pitches to snag the last batch of students while others back away because of a soured economy, according to consumer advocates and credit experts.
Chronicle of Higher Education September 15, 2009
Harvard University today announced a new doctoral program in educational leadership that, in partnership with prominent organizations pushing for change in elementary and secondary schools, will seek to train people capable of bringing about major school reform.
The New York Times September 15, 2009
In one study of four residence halls at the University of Colorado, two of the dorms had hand sanitizer dispensers installed in every dorm room, bathroom and dining area, and students were given educational materials about the importance of hand hygiene. Over all, the risk of getting sick was 20 percent lower in the dorms where hand hygiene was emphasized, and those students missed 43 percent fewer days of school.
Inside Higher Ed September 15, 2009
For years, as more academics have embraced "open access" publishing -- in which journals are published online and free -- a constant refrain from many publishers has been that the model would deprive them of the revenue they need for high quality editing and peer review. On Monday, five leading universities pledged to develop systems to pay open access journals for the articles they publish by the institutions' scholars.
Business Week September 14, 2009
The idea of some kind of open-source, online, low-cost revolution in education has become a lit fuse, sparking and crackling its way toward an explosion. Here and there, in places ranging from Silicon Valley to Indonesia, a few bold universities and entrepreneurs are taking pokes at the concept.
Inside Higher Ed September 15, 2009
Last year, CNN announced that it was going to eliminate its entire science and technology reporting team. To a group of public affairs administrators at research universities, it was but the latest sign that science news was going to have a more and more difficult time reaching the public. So the university administrators created a Web site in which they could distribute writing about their researchers and their work directly to the public. The result is Futurity, which today shifts from beta to an officially live site.
Huffington Post September 14, 2009
A columnist describes a meeting with a college counselor during her child’s senior year. “You'll emerge from this meeting,” she says, “with a list of schools that range from the impossible to the improbable to the possible; in the current climate, anyone who still refers to ‘safe schools’ is delusional. Do not for a moment imagine that these evaluations stem solely from your child's academic profile.” |