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Johns

American  
[jonz] / dʒɒnz /

noun

  1. Jasper, born 1930, U.S. painter.


Johns British  
/ dʒɒns /

noun

  1. Andrew ( Gary ). born 1974, Australian Rugby League footballer: halfback for Australia (1995–2006)

  2. Jasper. born 1930, US artist, noted for his collages and constructions

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Amy Binder, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, has studied how campuses shape young conservatives for more than a decade.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Harvard’s president at the time, Charles Eliot, later admitted that his university’s graduate school “did not thrive, until the example of Johns Hopkins forced our Faculty” to invest in it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

“Mosquitoes really need humidity because otherwise they desecrate,” said Dr. Photini Sinnis with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Co-curator Richard Johns, from the University of York, said the exhibition had not been planned around the release of the film, but was rather a "happy accident".

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Her eyes shone like he was offering her the key to the biorhythm lab at Johns Hopkins.

From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon

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