They are going to go around the corner and wait. As students return for the fall semester, they're finding a campus under major construction, reports The Baltimore Sun . Much of the Homewood campus is a construction site, probably the most disrupted of Maryland's colleges that find themselves in a building boom as students return for the fall. An anonymous donor gave Hopkins money for a landscaping makeover of its campus with one major proviso - do it now. It didn't fit.
New program aims to prepare a new generation of teachers.
Rochelle Ingram, director of the Graduate Division of Education in the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education at Johns Hopkins University, describes a new kind of teacher training program in an Op Ed in The Baltimore Sun . About 345 new teachers will be prepared for placement in other increasingly urbanized areas of Prince George's, Montgomery, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties. Alfred Sommer, dean of the Hopkins School of Public Health, writes in an Op Ed that drug companies' pledge to offer AIDS-fighting drugs at low cost to developing countries can not alone curb the deadly disease. One way to avoid this unintended catastrophe is to more forcefully link treatment with effective prevention strategies that change behavior. There have been 18147 visitors to this page since February 6, 2000.