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News from July 2018

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Ingredients for life discovered gushing out of Saturn’s moon

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

“We astrobiologists get excited about larger molecules and that sort of thing because it means that something is building upon itself and making itself more complex,” said Kate Craft, a planetary scientist at @JHUAPL (not involved in research.)

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Biomedical engineers

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

Here's a quick thread on tech that Hopkins #biomedicalengineers are developing to assist amputees.

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Chris Lebron receives 2018 Hiett Prize in the Humanities

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

Chris Lebron, an associate professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, has been named the winner of the 2018 Hiett Prize in the Humanities by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture.

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: What's the deal? Study looks at how consumers respond to certain retail sales promotions

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

Some shoppers find it difficult to resist the siren song of a discount.

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: The mental health impact of separating immigrant children from their parents

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

The federal policy of separating children and parents caught illegally crossing the southern border of the United States, an approach that has faced intense criticism over the past several days, could have profound and long-lasting effects on the mental health of the children in involved, Johns Hopkins University expert Paul Spiegel said in a Q+A published byNewsweek on Wednesday.

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Renowned Johns Hopkins slavery scholar Willie Lee Rose dies at 91

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

Willie Lee Rose, professor emerita of history at Johns Hopkins University and a noted scholar of slavery and the Reconstruction period, died in her sleep on Wednesday at her residence at Roland Park Place in Baltimore.

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Johns Hopkins Children's Center ranked among best U.S. children's hospitals

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

Johns Hopkins Children's Center has been ranked among the top children's hospitals in the nation by U.S.

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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: Bill Gates: 'I hope countries will compete in generosity

By Press release submission | Jul 2, 2018

Bill Gates hopes that one day, countries will compete to be the most generous.

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State test results: 98 to 99 percent of Digital Harbor High School failed math

By Local Labs News Service | Jul 1, 2018

About 0 to 4 percent of Digital Harbor High School students passed annual math assessments in 2017 and 98 to 99 percent of students failed, according to a Baltimore City Wire analysis of the latest Maryland schools report card.