- Richard Irwin
Hopkins awarded $41 million in grants from stimulus funds
The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation have awarded the Johns Hopkins University 119 research grants worth more than $41 million from money set aside in the federal stimulus package for medical and science research. Hopkins scientists from across the university's schools and departments submitted nearly 1,200 proposals for stimulus-funded projects. Earlier this year, the university held a career fair in anticipation that the grant proposals would translate into new jobs, including lab work, administration and information technology. The grants will finance study in a wide range of fields, including computer-assisted orthopedic surgery and finding new treatments for patients with sickle cell disease.
FOR THE RECORD - A brief in Wednesday's editions identifying two people killed in a Lothian car crash incorrectly described the relationship between Katherine Marie Buta and Douglas Donald Houglund. They were cousins.
The Baltimore Sun regrets the error.
- Kelly Brewington
Ailing Mikulski misses White House lunch
Maryland's senior senator is among a trio of ailing lawmakers who didn't attend Tuesday's White House luncheon for members of the Senate Democratic caucus, a White House official said. President Barack Obama invited the senators, who normally meet for lunch every Tuesday when the Senate is in session, to move their feast down the avenue. The meal was held in the State Dining Room. Three senators sent their regrets: Sens. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, being treated for brain cancer; Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, hospitalized for infections over the past two months; and Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, who had surgery last week after breaking an ankle July 19. Mikulski's spokeswoman said the senator plans to return to work this week for the confirmation vote on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Obama planned to use the noon gathering to talk with senators about his priorities, including measures to aid the economy and overhaul the nation's health care system. Gibbs described it as "a working lunch." Also, it was "the president's birthday, and Chuck E. Cheese was booked," the spokesman told reporters. Obama, who turned 48 Tuesday, celebrated the occasion over the weekend at Camp David, where family members and close friends from Hawaii and Chicago gathered for bowling, pickup basketball and a long dinner.
- Paul West
