CNNMoney.com May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This CNN story quotes from a speech delivered at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies by Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council.
Business Standard (India) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This Reuters wire story quotes from a speech delivered at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies by White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers.
Washington Post May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Dana Milbank's "Washington Sketch" column focuses on a speech at the School of Advanced International Studies by Larry Summers, the chief economic adviser to President Obama.
MarketWatch May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This MarketWatch article quotes from a speech delivered at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies by White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers.
TheAtlantic.com May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This columnist comments on a speech delivered at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies by White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers.
Bloomberg Business Week May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This Bloomberg wire story covers a speech delivered at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies by White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers.
Annapolis Capital (Maryland) May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature reports on a mechanical engineering senior design project in which Whiting School students Tristan Arbus, Adam Sierakowski and Diana Sandy adapted a wheelchair to give additional independence to a young Annapolis woman with cerebral palsy.
Washington Post May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This op-ed piece on the politics of the 2014 Winter Olympics is by Kurt Volker, U.S. ambassador to NATO from July 2008 to May 2009 and managing director of the Center on Transatlantic Relations at JHU’s School of Advanced international Studies.
Wall Street Journal May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This story quotes Paul Ness, director of transfusion medicine at Johns Hopkins. A blog post based on the same story is .
The New York Times May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article quotes Karl D. Jackson, head of the Southeast Asia studies program at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Space.com May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This feature quotes Tommy Grav, an associate research scientist in the Krieger School’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Universe Today May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article includes comments from Tommy Grav, an associate research scientist in the Krieger School’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Jewish Daily Forward (New York City) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reviews “Moses of South Carolina: A Jewish Scalawag during Radical Reconstruction,” a new book from Johns Hopkins University Press, written by Benjamin Ginsberg, a professor of political science in the Krieger School.
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article about a Cleveland Clinic study includes a comment from Armin Zadeh, an assistant professor of cardiology in the School of Medicine and associate director of cardiac computed tomography at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This opinion piece by Plain Dealer Chief Editorial Writer Joe Frolik mentions that Frolick has just returned from a trip to China organized by the International Reporting Project, a journalism program affiliated with JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies.
Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho) May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article mentions that Idaho National Laboratory researchers are conferring with Luann Becker, leader of the U.S. Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer team. Becker is a principal research scientist in the Krieger School’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Bloomberg.com May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This Bloomberg wire story about Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner mentions that Geithner graduated in 1985 from JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies with a master’s in International Economics and East Asian Studies.
Washington Times May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: Mary Habeck, an associate professor of strategic studies at JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies, is quoted in this story.
Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article mentions that West Virginia officials, trying to address school dropout problems, are working with Robert Balfanz, a research scientist with the Krieger School’s Center for Social Organization of Schools.
Canada.com May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This Winnipeg Free Press story mentions that a study by School of Medicine Professor Peter Pronovost found a simple five-step checklist used in intensive-care units cut infection rates and saved an estimated 1,500 lives in an 18-month period.
WebMD.com May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This health feature quotes Kerry J. Stewart, professor of medicine and director of clinical and research exercise physiology at the School of Medicine.
Cape Coral Daily Breeze (Florida) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article mentions that local education leaders met recently with Mark T. Rolewski, director of dissemination for leadership research and the national consultant for the Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education at JHU.
Washington Post May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This is a brief review of a Johns Hopkins University Press book, "Physics of the Human Body."
New York Times May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This story quotes Nisha Kapadia, a pediatric resident at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.
ABC Action News (Tampa, Fla.) May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article is about a mother who suspects that the caffeine in energy drinks may have contributed to her 19-year-old son’s death. It mentions that the woman is forwarding e-mails she's received to researchers at JHU who are studying the effects of energy drinks on young people.
The Frederick News-Post (Maryland) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article mentions that Board of Education candidate Aubrey Harbaugh earned a master's degree in biotechnology from JHU.
Titusville Herald (Pennsylvania) May 24, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This column mentions that Brandt Zipp, an expert on American stoneware, is a graduate of JHU.
Baltimore Sun May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article reports that Division III World Series-bound Johns Hopkins had eight players named to the American Baseball Coaches Association Mid-Atlantic All-Region Team.
Daily Record (Parsippany, N.J.) May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This article notes that Chatham High School senior Robert Guida will play lacrosse for JHU next year.
Baltimore Sun May 25, 2010
Johns Hopkins angle: This obituary mentions Simonette earned a master's degree in education from Johns Hopkins in 1956.
************************* HIGHER EDUCATION NEWS ************************* Chronicle of Higher Education May 25, 2010
A majority of students and their parents have ruled out colleges based solely on published sticker prices without considering how much financial aid they might receive, according to a recent survey of college applicants.
Inside Higher Education May 25, 2010
A paper released Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that science has changed in key ways. Specifically, it argues that the age at which researchers are able to make breakthroughs has advanced, and that scientists are parts of increasingly larger teams, encouraging narrow specialization. Yet, the author argues, science policy (or a lot of it) continues to assume the possibility if not desirability of breakthroughs by a lone young investigator.
Inside Higher Education May 25, 2010
While Harvard Business School, the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business might not be the kind of competition that most institutions would willingly seek out, well-regarded European business schools like SKEMA, a French business school, have in the last few years ratcheted up their efforts to be known and respected in the United States.
The Washington Post May 25, 2010
A panel offers leadership steps that college presidents may want to consider in these times of steep cutbacks in state funding and endowment income.
Diverse Issues in Higher Education May 25, 2010
The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee offers a certificate in Hmong diaspora studies. It is part of a growing tide within Asian American studies — more ethnic-specific courses and programs. And it suggests that Asian American studies as a field is transitioning its curriculum in response to changing U.S. demographics.
Chronicle of Higher Education May 25, 2010
A former Northern Illinois University student reflects on the February day in 2008 when a young man took a rifle onto the campus and opened fire in a lecture hall, killing five students and wounding 18 others before committing suicide. A campus turned into a battlefield, students army-crawled across the floor for safety, and everyone couldn't believe it was happening.
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