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Heard the one about Johns Hopkins students and stand-up?
For three weeks, students step away from the intensity of their academic majors, forget about their grade-point averages and take a class for the sheer joy of it. The stakes are incredibly low _ the grading is pass-fail, and most of the class time is spent listening to jokes.
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Peter Frampton’s doctors hope to highlight rare disease
Doctors at Johns Hopkins University hope to raise awareness and funds for research following famed guitarist Peter Frampton’s announcement that he has a rare muscular disease.
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University of Chicago police history may offer lessons for Hopkins, Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University is again trying to convince the Maryland General Assembly that the university and other JHU institutions need a full-blown private police force for campus security – arguing that other prestigious private universities in cities like Baltimore have seen results with their campus police.
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Senator on Hopkins bill: ‘It’s akin to establishing a Vatican City within Baltimore’
House and Senate committees in Baltimore will conduct hearings Friday on legislation that would allow Johns Hopkins University to have armed police officers patrol its campuses, hospital and adjacent areas. One Baltimore senator opposes that bill in its current form.
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Johns Hopkins accused of retaliating over union effort
The National Nurses United union complaint accuses the hospital of treating the nurses with hostility for their unionizing work, which started last year.
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Hopkins: Website error blocked sexual misconduct complaints
Johns Hopkins University says a website error stopped 18 sexual misconduct complaints filed online from reaching its Title IX office since 2016.
3 months ago -
Bloomberg donates ‘unprecedented’ $1.8B to Johns Hopkins
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Sunday he’s donating $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to boost financial aid for low- and middle-income students.
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NRLB: More evidence Johns Hopkins tried to stop union effort
The National Labor Relations Board has found more evidence that Johns Hopkins Hospital officials have restricted the rights of nurses trying to unionize.
4 months ago -
Hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak hits Johns Hopkins
More than 100 people have been sickened by hand, foot and mouth disease at one of Johns Hopkins University’s four Baltimore campuses. The Maryland Department of Health has officially classified it as an outbreak.
5 months ago -
New DC center will treat pediatric cancer with protons
Proton therapy is growing in popularity, and a new center under construction will focus on treating the area’s youngest cancer patients.
6 months ago -
Johns Hopkins provides financial aid to DACA grad student
Hopkins graduate student Daniela Gaona is one of 800,000 young people known as “DACA.” The university has awarded her financial aid.
7 months ago -
Evacuation order lifted after ‘inadvertent’ TB release
Baltimore firefighters on Thursday cleared people out of two medical research buildings due to tuberculosis contamination, but authorities later said there was no risk of infection to anyone and the evacuation order was lifted.
9 months ago -
Nurses accuse Johns Hopkins hospital of impeding union
A group of registered nurses has accused Johns Hopkins Hospital of impeding their efforts to form a union.
9 months ago -
Study evaluates Airbnb fire safety, first-aid amenities in 16 US cities
Though hotels are required to have smoke detectors, private rentals through Airbnb aren’t, and more than 20 percent of the Airbnbs in D.C. might not have the alarms, according to a recent study.
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Despite criticism, Johns Hopkins proceeds with alcohol study
Johns Hopkins says it will continue taking part in a study into the health impacts of alcohol despite criticism prompted by an investigation that showed the trial is funded mostly by alcohol companies.
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