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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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Biotechnical Institute of Md. awarded Bauer grant
The nonprofit Biotechnical Institute of Maryland, which trains unemployed and underemployed workers for entry-level technician jobs at bio-pharmaceutical companies, has been given a four-year, $1 million grant from the Charles T. Bauer Foundation. The...Tags: Annie E. Casey Foundation, Human Genome Sciences Incorporated, Pharmaceuticals
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Howard council names Hopkins lab its tech company of year
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has been named the Howard Technology Council's first Technology Company of the Year. The council, a component of the Howard County Economic Development Authority, encourages business growth and...Tags: Local Authority, Technology, Economic Policy, Colleges and Universities
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Arts calendar
fine art Museums American Visionary Art Museum 800 Key Highway. 410-244-1900. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays. Permanent exhibits: Rotating selections from museum archives. Baltimore Museum of Art Art Museum Drive at North Charles and 31st streets....Tags: Walters Art Museum, College of Notre Dame, Libraries and Museums, Anglican, Hippodrome Theatre
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World stem-cell session to be held in Baltimore
Baltimore will act as host to the 2009 World Stem Cell Summit, solidifying its position as one of the nation's foremost crucibles for bioscience research, officials said yesterday. The summit, to be held over three days in September, is expected to bring...Tags: National Government, Ethics, Research, Barack Obama, Diplomacy
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Dr. Charles E. Ellicott, Lutherville internist
Dr. Charles Ellis Ellicott, a retired Lutherville internist who worked with the disabled, died of pneumonia Nov. 25 at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville. He was 85. Born and raised in Baltimore, Dr. Ellicott was a 1941 graduate of the...Tags: Medicine, Yale University, Retirement, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics
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4 Md. colleges each receive millions from Hodson Trust
The Associated PressThe annual gift from a charitable trust to four Maryland colleges was down this year because of the sagging economy. The Hodson Trust announced today that it has given $3 million each to Hood College, St. John's College, Washington College and Johns...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Colleges and Universities, Financial Aid
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Frances E. Scherer: Retired missionary teacher dies
Tribune reporterFrances E. Scherer, a daughter of missionaries, grew up in China and traveled the world with her husband, becoming a nurse, a teacher and an author along the way. Mrs. Scherer, 96, died Sunday, Nov. 30, of complications from Alzheimer's disease in...Tags: Hyde Park, Medical Staff, St. George, Alzheimer's Disease, Diseases
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Homeland Security secretary advises his successor not to reorganize or try to please everyone
Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) _ The current homeland security secretary advised his successor Wednesday not to reorganize the young department or try to please everyone. Michael Chertoff pointed to the recent terror attacks in Mumbai, India, as a reason not to make...Tags: National Government, Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama, Illnesses, Disasters
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Juanita B. Nicholson
Juanita B. Nicholson, a retired Baltimore public school educator who later was a member of the Baltimore City Planning Commission, died Thursday of a heart attack at her Pikesville home. She was 83. Juanita Brown, a great-great-granddaughter of slaves,...Tags: Pikesville, National Basketball Association, Barack Obama, Teachers, Morgan State University
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An about-face on stem cells
One of Barack Obama's first acts as president is expected to be a reversal of the Bush administration's restrictions on federal funding for research on human embryonic stem cells. Maryland scientists say that's good news because it will uncork the...Tags: Technology, Heads of State, San Francisco, National Institutes of Health, Research
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Global village
Special to The Baltimore SunIt's a crisp fall day at Waverly Elementary School in Northeast Baltimore. It's about an hour or so before lunch, and the building perched on a hill is humming with activity. Upstairs in Room 223, about two dozen students in green and khaki uniforms are...Tags: Fells Point, Health Organizations, Waverly (Baltimore, Maryland), Healthcare Provider, Diseases
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How well did you do on our latest writers quiz?
Thanks to all who played our latest quiz on Baltimore-area authors. For those who were stumped, here are the answers: 1. A frequent heroine in Laura Lippman novels is former reporter (and Lippman alter-ego?) Tess Monaghan, whose greyhound is named...Tags: John Waters, New York Times, David Simon, Martin Luther King Jr., Death and Dying
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