Georgetown University is rated one of the “10 most hipster campuses.” Catholic University is home to not one, but two of the “15 best dorms in the country.” And Johns Hopkins University made a list of 25 well-regarded schools deemed “least rigorous.” Wait, really? One of the region’s most selective universities — a world-renowned research institution that warns teaching assistants about the intense competitiveness of its undergraduates and has four Nobel laureates on its faculty — is accused of not being rigorous? Read full article > >

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Number of lists ranking colleges proliferate — and some don’t make sense

Forget fearing the Terps. The area around what is now the University of Maryland campus may once have been home to more formidable creatures: Dinosaurs. The fossil of an armored dinosaur known as a nodosaur was discovered in College Park, scientists at Johns Hopkins University announced this week. The fossil belongs to a hatchling that lived an estimated 112 million years ago. Read full article > >

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Dinosaur fossil discovered in College Park

A doctor has been shot at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore, police say.

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Doctor ‘shot at top US hospital’

Yesterday I wrote about a report from Johns Hopkins University and the Center for Climate Strategies. The report demonstrates how federal climate policy could create 2.5 million jobs between now and 2020.

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