CTY: 'Helping Talent Soar'
National conference to spotlight minority high
achievement

To Baltimore City public school student DaQuan
Chisholm's way of thinking, police officers would be a
lot safer if they could walkie-talkie each other without
removing their helmets. So, like any enterprising
engineer, he designed and made a prototype —
undeterred by the fact he'd only just finished fourth
grade.
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Humanities in research
universities
A 19-member AAU task force, which included eight
university presidents and Johns Hopkins Provost Steven
Knapp, surveyed the organization's 62 campuses —
Johns Hopkins among them — to examine how the
humanities are being supported at large research
universities and whether they are receiving appropriate
emphasis.
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Health care quality compared in five
countries
Despite spending more for health care, Americans do
not have the best medical care in the world, according to
researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of
Public Health and other institutions. The study is the
first to use a universal set of standards to compare the
quality of health care in the five countries surveyed.
The researchers found that no country scored the best or
worst overall and that each country was the best and
worst in at least one area. The study is published in the
May/June issue of the journal Health Affairs.
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