The New York Times
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This online commentary is by William Egginton, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University.
Washington Post
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Yash Gupta, dean of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, discusses who is most responsible for the failure of the U.S. to take official action on global warming.
The New Republic
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article was written by Ruth Wedgwood of JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies.
The New York Times
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This news analysis piece quotes Marilyn Albert, a cognitive neurology professor in the School of Medicine.
WebMd
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Guy McKhann, a professor at the Mind/Brain Institute, and Marilyn Albert of the School of Medicine are quoted.
San Francisco Chronicle
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This Q and A interview is with composer Michael Hersch, whose Third Symphony will receive its world premiere at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz. Hersch attended the Peabody Conservatory and now teaches composition there.
Science Magazine
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Krieger School geologist Peter Olson is quoted in this article.
TIME Magazine
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This story mentions that Leo Wise, staff director and general counsel of the Office of Congressional Ethics, is a JHU graduate.
ABC News
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This story reports on two separate studies led by Harry C. Dietz and Paul Sponseller of the School of Medicine. The studies suggest that a checklist could help patients receive the monitoring and treatment necessary to prevent two genetic diseases from becoming life-threatening.
Washington Post Blogs
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: In this column, writer Daniel de Vise mentions that Johns Hopkins University has pledged to halve its carbon emissions over 15 years.
Jakarta Globe
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This column was written by Steven H. Hanke, an applied economist from the Whiting School of Engineering.
Forbes.com
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Included in this story about sleep problems is some advice from Nancy Collop, the director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center.
Baltimore Sun – Picture of Health blog
August 3, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: In this blog post, Johns Hopkins affiliate Jhpiego is mentioned.
Chicago Tribune
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Consumers' Checkbook asked 340,000 physicians from the 53 largest metro areas of the country where they would send a friend or family member who had a serious illness for treatment. It states that "for pancreatic cancer, doctors like Johns Hopkins Hospital."
Orange County Register (Ca.)
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports that Johns Hopkins University scientists who are trying to determine why people develop serious mental illness are focusing on an unlikely factor: a common parasite spread by cats.
Globe & Mail (Canada)
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this story, a research group in France and another at Johns Hopkins University are interested in launching their own trials of Deep Brain Stimulation as a treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
New England Journal of Medicine
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Roy C. Ziegelstein, Cynthia S. Rand, and David B. Hellmann -- all of the School of Medicine -- had a letter to the editor published.
The National (Abu Dhabi)
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this article, researchers at Johns Hopkins University announced they may have identified the hormone that triggers puberty. Named GnRH – presumably after the noise teenagers make when you try to get them up in the morning – the hormone was isolated during an experiment on mice.
AllAfrica.com
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Quoted is Mandla Ndlovu, Communications Programme Manager for Johns Hopkins Health and Education in South Africa.
Huffington Post
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This blog about Vitaminwater mentions a 2009 study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, which found that the quickest and most reliable way to lose weight is to cut down on liquid calorie consumption.
Baltimore Sun
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this article, Johns Hopkins notified students, faculty and staff about a recent string of robberies in the Fells Point area, although no one affiliated with Johns Hopkins was said to have been hurt.
Baltimore Sun
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: The writer of this article about the Remington neighborhood near JHU’s Homewood campus interviewed MacGregor Burns, described as “a musician and Johns Hopkins graduate.”
Rochester Post-Bulletin (Mn.)
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Columnist Greg Sellnow discusses the stabbing death of Johns Hopkins research assistant Stephen Pitcairn.
Washington Post Blogs
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This blog notes that guest columnist Aaron Pallas taught at JHU and now is a professor at Columbia University.
Baltimore Business Journal
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this article, Amplimmune is "the 4-year-old spinoff from Johns Hopkins University."
Fox4KC TV (Kansas City)
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this report, experts at Johns Hopkins studied students who took part in a special summer learning program and found that, on average, they improved by one grade level in just eight weeks in the program.
Gazette.net (Md.)
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature reported on the spaghetti bridge competition held in Frederick County last week, an event organized by Johns Hopkins' Engineering Innovation program.
Washington Post
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: According to this news brief, Stephen A. Haering has a master's degree in public health from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Maryland Daily Record
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This column reports that JHU property manager Karen Geary has been elected to the board of The Columbia Foundation as vice chair.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This column mentions that Pine-Richland Middle School seventh-grader Anya Chopra was recognized by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth
Canada.com
August 5, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature notes that Pierre Simard, artistic director and conductor of the Vancouver Island Symphony, holds a master's degree in conducting from the Peabody Institute.
Baltimore Sun
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This obituary for moving company businessman Samuel Leo Dutton mentions that his firm moved the books from JHU’s old Gilman Hall library to the Milton S. Eisenhower Library in 1970. Johns Hopkins spokesman Dennis O’Shea is quoted about other work that Dutton’s firm did for the university.
New York Times
August 4, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This obituary mentions that Chanock taught and conducted research at Johns Hopkins before taking a post at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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************************ Wall Street Journal
August 5, 2010
Students turn to online roommate matching services to avoid getting paired with a stranger.
Chronicle of Higher Education
August 5, 2010
Witnesses were asked whether the fraud and deception uncovered in a recent government investigation into for-profit recruiting is the norm.
Washington Post – College Inc. blog
August 3, 2010
An industry group representing trustees and alumni has published a pocket guide asserting that colleges should not lean on tuition increases to bail them out of tough times, but instead should find innovative ways to cut costs.
USA Today
August 4, 2010
Every college across the country must either have installed software to block illegal file-sharing or have created some other procedure for preventing it, per the 2008 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which took effect July 1.
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