Digging for Data
A onetime archaeologist puts her skills to work
documenting JHU

Johns Hopkins scholars study everything from stem
cells and famine to the Silk Road trade and cosmological
dust clouds. But who studies the university?
The answer is the Office of Institutional
Research.
Established in January 2001, the office is
responsible for data reporting, information analysis and the
creation of a centralized warehouse of all relevant university
facts and figures, for both internal and external use.
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Financial Info System Boosts Uses
The university this month launches the
much-anticipated second generation of Access to Financial
Information, the Web-based reporting system implemented in
early 2002 to provide a user-friendly tool for principal
investigators and account administrators to manage accounts
more effectively.
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Electronic Voting System May Be
Vulnerable
The software believed to be at the heart of an
electronic voting system being marketed for use in
elections across the nation has weaknesses that could
easily allow someone to cast multiple votes for one
candidate, computer security researchers at Johns Hopkins
have determined.
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Obituary: Eminent Historian John Higham, Longtime
Faculty Member, was 82
John Higham, an eminent historian of American culture
and of the interplay of ethnic and national identity in the
United States, died Saturday at his home in Baltimore of a
massive cerebral aneurism. He was 82.
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Greider Named Director of Molecular
Biology
After an exhaustive national search, Carol W. Greider,
a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1997 and
internationally known for her work on telomerase, has been
named the Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of the
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine. The appointment was
effective Aug. 1.
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