So, this Blue Jay walks into a bar...
Popular Intersession course teaches students the art of stand-up

Students and class instructor Adam Ruben, seated right, laugh at a joke by Joe Quinn, a senior from Anchorage, Alaska.

Nathan Wysk, a thin and shaggy-haired junior majoring in materials science and engineering, stepped up to the microphone last Wednesday night and launched into his routine with a one-liner.
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Campaign wraps at $3.74 billion
The Johns Hopkins Knowledge for the World fund-raising campaign ended Dec. 31 with total commitments of $3.741 billion, creating 92 professorships, generating 550 new scholarships and graduate fellowships, and modernizing teaching, research and patient care facilities at Johns Hopkins campuses at home and around the world.
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Mosaic funding fuels pipeline to diversity success
Last summer, the university confirmed the hiring of eight faculty members in five divisions that had come as a result of the Mosaic Initiative, a newly created program aimed at fostering a diverse workplace at Johns Hopkins.
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