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'Genius grant' for physician
Lisa Cooper recognized for work on racial, ethnic
disparities in health care
Lisa Cooper, a Liberian-born Johns Hopkins internist
and epidemiologist who conducts landmark
studies designed to understand and overcome racial and
ethnic disparities in medical care and
research, has been named a 2007 fellow by the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The
fellowship comes with a $500,000 grant that Cooper may use
in any way she chooses.
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A literary journal is reborn
Dormant for more than five decades, The Hopkins
Review makes a triumphant return to the
literary landscape this fall. The original Hopkins
Review was launched in
1947 by the Writing Seminars, then called the
Department of Writing, Speech and Drama. The literary
magazine back then was a thin paperback
volume that sold for 25 cents a copy.
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Gene-seekers look at nature-nurture in
diseases
Johns Hopkins'
McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine is one
of two gene-hunting
facilities in the nation to win a new $11.7 million
four-year federal grant to rigorously sort out how
such environmental factors as diet, exercise, stress and
addictions interact with people's individual
genetic makeup to affect their risk for disorders as
wide-ranging as cancer, diabetes, tooth decay and
heart disease.
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Departments
Ted Poehler to step down from post as vice provost for
research