Johns Hopkins University
hideThe Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU or simply Hopkins, is a private research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China and Singapore. It is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities.
The university is named after Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in his 1873 will for the foundation of the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital. At the time, this was the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history, the equivalent of over $131 million in the year 2006. The university opened on February 22, 1876, with the stated goal of "The encouragement of research…and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell."
Johns Hopkins was the first U.S. university to apply the German university model developed by Wilhelm von Humboldt and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher. Johns Hopkins was also the first U.S. university to teach through seminars, instead of solely through lectures, as well as the first U.S. university to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts curriculum). As such, Johns Hopkins was a model for most large research universities in the United States, particularly the University of Chicago. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), Johns Hopkins performed $1.55 billion in science, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2007. NSF has ranked the university #1 among U.S. academic institutions in total Research and Development spending for the 29th year in a row.
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Diagnostic errors: The new focus of patient safety experts
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Johns Hopkins patient safety experts say it's high time for diagnostic errors to get the same attention from medical institutions and caregivers as drug-prescribing errors, wrong-site surgeries and hospital-acquired infections. ...
The difference between eye cells is... sumo?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing nerve cells in the retina ...
Cassini Maps Global Pattern of Titan's Dunes
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Titan's vast dune fields, which may act like weather vanes to determine general wind direction on Saturn's biggest moon, have been mapped by scientists who compiled four years of radar data ...
Data Travels Six Times Faster in the Clouds
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Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Chicago at Illinois established a cloud computing system that can quickly compile data from widely geographically distributed ...
Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and The Johns Hopkins University have constructed a unique tool for exploring the properties of promising new materials with ...
Young smokers increase risk for multiple sclerosis
Feb 23, 2009 |
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People who start smoking before age 17 may increase their risk for developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 61st Annual Meeting ...
Prostate specific antigen testing may be unnecessary for some older men
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Certain men age 75 to 80 are unlikely to benefit from routine prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing, according to a Johns Hopkins study published in the April 2009 issue of The Journal of Urology.
What's Feeding Cancer Cells?
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Cancer cells need a lot of nutrients to multiply and survive. While much is understood about how cancer cells use blood sugar to make energy, not much is known about how they get other nutrients. Now, researchers at the Johns ...
Researchers discover new schizophrenia gene
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine are one gene closer to understanding schizophrenia and related disorders. Reporting in the Jan. 9 issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics, the team d ...
Hopkins transplant surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina
Feb 02, 2009 |
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In what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina.
Teaching an old drug new tricks
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jan 30, 2009 |
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A century-old drug that failed in its original intent to treat tuberculosis but has worked well as an antileprosy medicine now holds new promise as a potential therapy for multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases.
Statewide study confirms 'paperless' hospitals are better for patients
Jan 26, 2009 |
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Results from a large-scale Johns Hopkins study of more than 40 hospitals and 160,000 patients show that when health information technologies replace paper forms and handwritten notes, both hospitals and patients benefit strongly.
How chemotherapy drugs block blood vessel growth, slow cancer spread
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered how a whole class of commonly used chemotherapy drugs can block cancer growth. Their findings, reported online this week at the Proceedings of ...
Kidney transplant survival can be long-term for people with HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 19, 2009 |
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A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant ...
Gene switch sites found mainly on 'shores,' not just 'islands' of the human genome
Jan 18, 2009 |
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Scientists who study how human chemistry can permanently turn off genes have typically focused on small islands of DNA believed to contain most of the chemical alterations involved in those switches. But after an epic tour ...
