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The Johns Hopkins University is a private university located in Baltimore, with major campuses in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. Hopkins also has academic facilities in Nanjing, China, and in Bologna and Florence, Italy. It was the first research university in the United States. Johns Hopkins was opened in Baltimore in 1876 and is named after one of its benefactors, Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in 1873 for the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins' first name is Johns because it was the last name of his great-grandmother. The university and the Johns Hopkins Health System, which includes the hospital, now fall under the Johns Hopkins In...
The Johns Hopkins University is a private university located in Baltimore, with major campuses in Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Maryland. Hopkins also has academic facilities in Nanjing, China, and in Bologna and Florence, Italy. It was the first research university in the United States. Johns Hopkins was opened in Baltimore in 1876 and is named after one of its benefactors, Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in 1873 for the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Hopkins' first name is Johns because it was the last name of his great-grandmother. The university and the Johns Hopkins Health System, which includes the hospital, now fall under the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Johns Hopkins University is made up of nine schools, including the Peabody Institute, which became a part of Johns Hopkins in 1977. The university originally only admitted men; the first female undergraduates were admitted to Hopkins in 1970. Some female graduate students were allowed to attend Hopkins starting in 1877, but the university did not officially allow female graduate students until 1907. The university currently offers 49 majors for full- and part-time undergraduates. The Division III Johns Hopkins Blue Jays play in the Centennial Conference, but both men's and women's lacrosse at Hopkins are Division I teams and do not participate in the Centennial Conference. The Blue Jays colors are Columbia blue and black, but the university's colors are gold and sable. Notable Johns Hopkins alumni include actor John Astin, director Wes Craven, journalist Wolf Blitzer, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, biologist and author Rachel Carson, IBM chairman and CEO Samuel J. Palmisano, tuberculosis researcher George Comstock and former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson.
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Hopkins president-elect praised for boundless energy, can-do attitude
Six months before German tanks rolled into Poland in 1939, marking the start of World War II, the grandfather of Ronald J. Daniels lost his job as a teacher in Warsaw. Aba Danilak thought he would move to Canada, where his brother lived, save some money...Tags: Government, Medical Research, World War II, Natural Science, Financial Aid
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Hopkins isn't where gun tracking is needed
According to the article "System to listen for gunfire at Hopkins" (Nov. 18), Johns Hopkins University students will be among the first in the city to benefit from an innovative technology that pinpoints the location of gunfire. While campus shootings...Tags: Pikesville, Charles Village, Murder
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A Civil action
These days, the term "political correctness" is used most commonly by the political right to rage against allegedly misguided efforts to minimize public offense, particularly on the subjects of race and sex. There's a better term for the decision by Johns...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, History, Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Hopkins launches gunfire detection system
Within seconds after each of the three gunshots rang out, the nearby laptop computer showed they had been fired just steps from the Union Soldiers and Sailors monument at Wyman Park. The shots, fired by Baltimore SWAT officer Chris Timms into a dump...Tags: Prosecution, Witnesses, Charles Village, Assault
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Dixie kin are stonewalled
Tribune NewspapersBALTIMORE — Every January, descendants of Confederate soldiers gather in Baltimore's Wyman Park to march under the banner of the Confederacy, sing "Dixie" and lay wreaths at the monument to Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, legendary...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Baltimore Museum of Art, Rentals, Rooms and Sublets
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Protecting home from silent threat
New York Times News ServiceThe cost of heating a home is expected to be higher than ever this winter, so this is a good time to batten down the hatches by caulking, sealing and weather-stripping every cold air entry point. But homeowner beware: the quick fix could create a more...Tags: Death and Dying, Environmental Politics, Cancer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Diseases
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Hopkins balks at Confederate banner
Every January, descendants of Confederate soldiers gather in Wyman Park to march under the banner of the Confederacy, sing "Dixie" and lay wreaths at the monument to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, legendary generals of the Confederate States of...Tags: Government, Facebook, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Freedom of the Press, Defense
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FDIC chairman Bair says stopping foreclosures is key
FDIC chairman Sheila Bair said during a speech in Baltimore this morning that the one step the federal government has yet to take to improve the economy is to stop unnecessary foreclosures. But Bair said she is optimistic the government will soon do so by...Tags: Government, U.S. Department of Treasury, Henry Paulson, Financial and Business Services, Barack Obama
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Grace Hartigan
Grace Hartigan, the renowned artist and educator who died over the weekend at the age of 86, was a painter's painter. "The thing that's been incredible is that one way or another, I've been able to arrange my life so that I could paint every day," she...Tags: Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Death and Dying, Jackson Pollock
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System to listen for gunfire at Hopkins
The Johns Hopkins University will become one of the first colleges in the country to use a system of sensors around its campus that will enable police to instantly pinpoint the location of shootings. City police were testing the system yesterday in...Tags: Prince George's County, Assault, George Washington University, Colleges and Universities, Murder
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Discover Bible's secrets
The ratings success of the venerable CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes in recent weeks brings to mind another storied TV franchise, Nova, the science series now in its 35th season on PBS and still going strong. To see how strong, spend a couple of hours...Tags: CBS Corp., The Tonight Show, Bible, David Letterman, 60 Minutes
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Despite small gains, hurdles remain to making HIV testing as common as cholesterol checks
AP Medical WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ Two years after the government urged making HIV tests as common as cholesterol checks, there are small gains but still one in five people infected with the AIDS virus doesn't know it, scientists said Thursday. Eleven states that once...Tags: Government, George Bush, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, John Bartlett, Health Insurance
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