Johns Hopkins University

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The Johns Hopkins University

File:JHU seal.png Official Seal
Motto	Veritas vos Liberabit           (Latin)
Motto in English	The Truth Will Set You Free
Type	Private
Established	1876
Endowment	US $1.98 billion (2009)
President	Ronald J. Daniels
Provost	Lloyd B. Minor
Academic staff	3,100 (full time)
Undergraduates	4,744
Postgraduates	14,275
Location	Baltimore, Maryland , U.S.
Campus	State of Maryland (MD) Baltimore (Main) Laurel Columbia Montgomery County Washington, D.C. Bologna, Italy Nanjing, China Singapore
Colors	Old Gold & Sable     (Academic) Columbia Blue & Black     (Athletic)
Nickname	Blue Jays
Website	www.jhu.edu

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Johns Hopkins maintains campuses in Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, China, and Singapore.

The university was founded on January 22, 1876 and was the first U.S. university to teach through seminars, instead of solely through lectures, as well as the first U.S. university to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts curriculum). As such, Johns Hopkins was a model for most large research universities in the United States.

Johns Hopkins is ranked 18th internationally in the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities, 13th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2010-11, and 2nd and 3rd worldwide in the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) and the HEEACT – Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, respectively. Over time, 33 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Johns Hopkins (only 13 schools claim more), and the university is among the most cited institutions in the world.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has ranked Johns Hopkins #1 among U.S. academic institutions in total science, medical and engineering research and development spending for 31 years in a row.

History

Overview

The Johns Hopkins University was founded on January 22, 1876 by educational pioneers who abandoned the traditional roles of the American college and focused on graduate education, and the support of faculty research.

Origin of the name

The peculiar first name of philanthropist Johns Hopkins is the surname of his great-grandmother, Margaret Johns, who married Gerard Hopkins. They named their son Johns Hopkins, and his name was passed on to his grandson, the university's founder.

In his 2001 undergraduate commencement address, university president William R. Brody had the following to say about the name: "In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, Mark Twain wrote about this university in a letter to a friend. He said: 'A few months ago I was told that the Johns Hopkins University had given me a degree. I naturally supposed this constituted me a Member of the Faculty, and so I started in to help as I could there. I told them I believed they were perfectly competent to run a college as far as the higher branches of education are concerned, but what they needed was a little help here and there from a practical commercial man. I said the public is sensitive to little things, and they wouldn't have full confidence in a college that didn't know how to spell the name John.' More than a century later, we continue to bestow diplomas upon individuals of outstanding capabilities and great talent. And we continue to spell Johns with an s."

Milton Eisenhower, a president of the university, was once invited to speak to a convention in Pittsburgh. Making a common mistake, the Master of Ceremonies introduced him as "President of John Hopkins." Eisenhower retorted that he was "glad to be here in Pittburgh."

Early years

See also: Johns Hopkins' Philanthropy and Legacy

Johns Hopkins

In 1873 Johns Hopkins, a childless bachelor, bequeathed $7 million to fund a hospital and university in Baltimore, Maryland. At that time this fortune, generated primarily from the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, was the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States.

The "Big Four" founding professors at Johns Hopkins Hospital the first Professors of Medicine and founder of the Medical Service there were William Osler, Professor of Medicine; William Stewart Halsted, Professor of Surgery; Howard A. Kelly, Professor of Gynecology; and William H. Welch, Professor of Pathology.) Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training.

The new board searched the nation for appropriate models of higher education; however, finding none to their liking, they opted for an entirely different model dedicated to the discovery of knowledge at an advanced level. It owed its inspiration not to America's higher educational system but to that of contemporary Germany.

By following the Germanic university example, the board moved higher education in the United States away from a focus on teaching either revealed or applied knowledge to a concentration on research, the scientific discovery of new knowledge. This made Johns Hopkins the genesis of the modern research university in the United States. The university was intended to be national in scope for a country divided in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Therefore, the university's official inauguration took on great significance: 1876 was the nation's centennial year and February 22 was George Washington's birthday.

The Gilman period

Johns Hopkins viability depended on the board of trustees' choice for the first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, who had been recruited away from the presidency of the University of California. Gilman launched what many at the time considered to be an audacious and unprecedented academic experiment to merge teaching and research. He dismissed the idea that the two were mutually exclusive: "The best teachers are usually those who are free, competent, and willing to make original researches in the library and the laboratory," he stated. To implement his educational plan, Gilman recruited internationally known luminaries such as the biologist H. Newell Martin; the physicist Henry A. Rowland (the first president of the American Physical Society), the classical scholars Basil Gildersleeve and Charles D. Morris; the economist Richard T. Ely; and the chemist Ira Remsen, who became the second president of the university in 1901.

Daniel Coit Gilman

Gilman thus abandoned the traditional roles of the American college and forged a new era of modern research universities by focusing on the expansion of knowledge, graduate education, and support of faculty research. To Gilman, Johns Hopkins existed not for the sake of God, the state, the community, the board, the parents, or even the students, but for knowledge. Therefore, faculty who expanded knowledge were rewarded. Coupled with this focus was the concentration on graduate education and the fusion of advanced scholarship with such professional schools as medicine and engineering. Hopkins consequently became the national trendsetter in doctoral programs and the host for numerous scholarly journals and associations with the founding of the first university press in 1878. With the completion of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1889 followed by the opening of the medical school in 1893, the university's research focused mode of instruction soon began attracting world-renowned faculty members who would become major figures in the emerging field of academic medicine, including William Osler, William Halsted, Howard Kelly, and William Welch. During this period Hopkins also made history by becoming the first medical school to admit women on an equal basis as men and require a Bachelors degree to gain entrance, based on the efforts of Mary E. Garrett who had also endowed the school at Gilman's request.

In his will and in the instructions which he gave to the trustees of the university and the hospital, Johns Hopkins requested that both institutions be built upon the vast grounds of his Baltimore estate, Clifton. When Daniel Coit Gilman assumed the presidency of the university, he decided that it would be best to use the university's endowment for purposes other than construction, such as recruiting faculty and students, and declared that it was more important to "build men, not buildings." Also, in his will Johns Hopkins stipulated that none of the money he left behind should be used for the construction of buildings; only interest incurred from the principal could be used for this purpose. Unfortunately, stocks in The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from which most of the interest would have been generated became virtually worthless soon after Hopkins's death because of mismanagement in the company. Therefore the university's first home was in Downtown Baltimore and plans were made to move the university to Clifton in the future. Gilman's decision to not locate the university where Hopkins wanted became the only major criticism of his presidency. In the early 1900s the university outgrew the buildings available to it and the trustees began to search for a new home. Developing the entirety of Clifton for the university was out of the financial reach of the university at the time, and Johns Hopkins' beautiful estate was bought for one million dollars by the city and became a public park. In the end, the 140-acre (0.57 km²) estate in north Baltimore known as Homewood was purchased as the university's new campus with assistance from prominent Baltimore citizens.

Civil rights

Presidents of the university

Name	Term
Daniel Coit Gilman	May 1875 - August 1901
Ira Remsen	September 1901 - January 1913
Frank Goodnow	October 1914 - June 1929
Joseph Sweetman Ames	July 1929 - June 1935
Isaiah Bowman	July 1935 - December 1948
Detlev Bronk	January 1949 - August 1953
Lowell Reed	September 1953 - June 1956
Milton S. Eisenhower	July 1956 - June 1967
Lincoln Gordon	July 1967 - March 1971
Milton S. Eisenhower	March 1971 - January 1972
Steven Muller	February 1972 - June 1990
William C. Richardson	July 1990 - July 1995
Daniel Nathans	June 1995 - August 1996
William R. Brody	August 1996 - February 2009
Ronald J. Daniels	March 2009–Present

During his lifetime Johns Hopkins was a prominent abolitionist who supported Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. After his death his memory was reported to be a decisive factor in opening the doors of Johns Hopkins University to its first African-American student, Kelly Miller, a graduate student in physics, astronomy and mathematics, and in admitting the first three African-American physicians to Maryland's Medical and Chirurgical Society MedChi. Harvard-trained physician Whitfield Winsey was the first African-American member of this organization and of another local medical society that later merged with it. These physicians could attend meetings because meetings were held on the Johns Hopkins campus. As the memory of Hopkins faded and trustees like King died, the institutions Hopkins endowed became like so many other institutions in the city where he had made his wealth, particularly in terms of race. On March 15, 1892, it is stated in the Johns Hopkins University chronology that an administrator hired by Gilman recommended that the hospital should have a "separate ward for colored patients". Johns Hopkins Hospital subsequently became a segregated facility. Johns Hopkins' separate but equal stance was still evident when it came to these segregated wards: "Special care will be taken to see that the heating and ventilation apparatus is as perfect as possible. A sun balcony will be erected on each floor on the east side, for convalescents, while a sun bay-window will be constructed at the south end of the south wing. On each floor there will be a dining room, kitchen, lavatory and bath-rooms...The building will be fireproof throughout."

As segregation began to be increasingly reflected within the Johns Hopkins institutions, it affected pay, hiring and promotions, and to this day patients in these segregated wards and those employed in the lower rungs of the service industries have the longest and most continuous history within the Johns Hopkins Institutions. Johns Hopkins' students, physicians, administrators and staff of African descent have a much shorter history within these institutions. The first Black undergraduate was Frederick Scott who entered the school in 1945. In 1967 the first graduate degrees were earned by two Black students. One went to British-trained Nigerian, James Nabwangu who the first Black graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School. The other was earned by African-American, Robert Gamble.

The first African-American instructor was laboratory supervisor Vivien Thomas, who also invented and developed research instruments, served as an assistant in surgery to surgeon Alfred Blalock, and worked closely with Blalock and Helen Taussig in developing and conducting the first successful blue baby operation. The doors of the Johns Hopkins Institutions, and of Maryland's state medical societies, were largely closed to students and professionals of African descent until after the 1940s, with greater diversity achieved in the 1960s and 1970s. African-Americans and women were labeled "The Uninvited" in the second major history of Johns Hopkins University.

Women's rights

The most well-known battle for women's rights was the one led by daughters of trustees of the university; Mary E. Garrett, M. Carey Thomas, Mamie Gwinn, Elizabeth King, and Julia Rogers. They donated funds, undertook the effort of raising the funds needed to open the medical school, and required Hopkins' officials to agree to their stipulation that women would be able to obtain a medical education at Hopkins. Unfortunately, this stipulation applied only to the medical school. Other graduate schools were eventually opened to women by Ira Remsen, the university's second president, in 1907. Christine Ladd-Franklin was the first woman to meet the PhD requirements in any subject at Hopkins. She met the requirements for her PhD in mathematics in 1882. The trustees denied her the degree and refused to change the policy about admitting women; she finally received her degree in 1926, 44 years later.

The nursing school opened in 1889 and accepted women and men as students. In 1893 Florence Bascomb became the university's first female Ph.D.

The decision to admit women at undergraduate level was not considered until the late 1960s. The policy change was eventually adopted in October 1969; in the fall of 1970, 90 female students, five of them African Americans, became undergraduates at Johns Hopkins University. In the academic year 1970–1971, 4.7% of students in the Arts and Sciences programs were women. In the year 1985–1986 the proportion of female students in the Arts and Sciences programs had increased to around 38%. As of 2009-2010, the undergraduate population is 47% female and 53% male.

Modern times

The Johns Hopkins University Press, founded in 1878, is the oldest American university press in continuous operation. Along with the hospital, Hopkins established one of the nation's oldest schools of nursing in 1889. The school of medicine was the nation's first coeducational, graduate-level medical school and the prototype for academic medicine which emphasized bedside learning, research projects, and laboratory training. In 1909, the university was among the first to start adult continuing education programs and in 1916 it founded the first school of public health in the country. Programs in international studies and the performing arts were established in 1950 and 1977 when the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies in Washington D.C and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore became divisions of the university.

Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of Dwight Eisenhower, led Johns Hopkins during the 1950s and 1960s when the university's income tripled, endowment doubled, ambitious building projects were undertaken, and ties with Washington, D.C. were developed. Though privately endowed, Johns Hopkins University embodies what Clark Kerr calls the "federal grant university", as it is often the most prolific in federal research and development expenditures. This also shows the priorities of federal grant authorities, as the school's humanities programs do not attract research funding commensurate with that attracted by medicine, public health, engineering, and physics; despite this, programs in the humanities are still highly ranked. The huge infusion of federal funding however aids the university in supplementing its educational presence in Baltimore with the economic role of being the city's single largest employer.

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Mason Hall, the Visitor's Center & Admissions Office at Johns Hopkins University

Campuses

Main Campuses & Divisions
Homewood			East Baltimore (Medical Institutions Campus)			Downtown Baltimore		Washington D.C.	Laurel, Maryland
School of Arts and Sciences 1876	School of Education 1909	School of Engineering 1913	School of Nursing 1889	School of Medicine 1893	School of Public Health 1916	Peabody Institute 1857	School of Business 2007	School of Advanced International Studies 1943	Applied Physics Laboratory 1942

Homewood Campus (Main Campus)

Main article: Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus

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Homewood House

• Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences: Located at the university’s Homewood campus, the Krieger School is the core institution of the university and offers undergraduate and graduate programs, with more than 60 undergraduate majors and minors and more than 40 full-time and part-time graduate programs.
• G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering: The Whiting School is located on the main Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and offers undergraduate and graduate engineering programs.
• School of Education: Originally established in 1909 as The School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, the divisions of Education and Business became separate schools in 2007.

The first university campus was located on Howard Street in Baltimore. However, this location did not permit room for growth and the trustees began to look for a place to move. Eventually, they relocated to Homewood, the estate of Charles Carroll, the son of the oldest surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. Carroll's Homewood House is considered to be one of the finest examples of Federal residential architecture in the United States. The estate then came to the Wyman family, which participated in its becoming the park-like main campus of the Johns Hopkins schools of arts and sciences and engineering at the turn of the 20th century. Homewood is set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in the northern part of Baltimore. Most of its architecture was modeled after the Federal style of Homewood House. Homewood House itself is preserved as a museum. Most undergraduate programs are held on this campus.

East Baltimore (Medical Institutions)

Johns Hopkins Hospital

• School of Medicine: The School of Medicine is based at the university's Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore with Johns Hopkins Hospital. The School of Medicine is widely regarded as one of the best medical schools and biomedical research institutes in the world.
• School of Nursing: The School of Nursing, is located in East Baltimore and is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital and the School of Medicine.
• Bloomberg School of Public Health: The Bloomberg School was founded in 1916, is the first and largest public health school in the world. It has consistently been ranked the number one school of public health by U.S. News & World Report.

School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing are located on the campus in East Baltimore. Collectively known as Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI) campus, it comprises several city blocks spreading from the original Johns Hopkins Hospital building and its trademark dome. The School of Medicine is associated with clinical practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Downtown Baltimore

Peabody Institute

• Carey Business School: The Carey Business School was established in 2007, incorporating divisions of the former School of Professional Studies in Business and Education. It is located in downtown Baltimore.
• Peabody Institute: founded in 1857, is the oldest continuously active music conservatory in the United States; it became a division of Johns Hopkins in 1977. The Conservatory retains its own student body and grants its own degrees in musicology, though both Hopkins and Peabody students may take courses at both institutions.

Downtown Baltimore is home to the Peabody Conservatory of Music located on East Mount Vernon Place and the main campus of the Carey Business School located on Charles Street.

Washington, D.C.

Washington D.C. Campus (SAIS)

• Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is located in the Washington D.C. campus near Dupont Circle. SAIS is devoted to international studies, particularly international relations, diplomacy, and economics. SAIS has full-time international campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China. Founded in 1943, SAIS became a part of the university in 1950. In a 2005 survey 65% of respondents ranked SAIS as the nation's top Master's Degree program in International Relations.

The Washington, D.C. campus on Massachusetts Avenue includes one of the main divisions of the university, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and branches of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (Advanced Academic Programs) and the Carey Business School.

Laurel, Maryland

Installing a New Horizons Imager at the APL

• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL): The APL in Laurel, Maryland, specializes in research for the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and other government and civilian research agencies. It has developed more than 100 biomedical devices, many in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. It is also linked to the Space Telescope Science Institute located on the Homewood campus which controls, analyzes, and collects data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of the university co-equal to the nine schools but with a non-academic mission lies between Baltimore and Washington in Laurel, Maryland.

Other campuses

see also List of Johns Hopkins University Research Centers and Institutes

Domestic

• Columbia, Maryland Center (Branches of The Carey Business School and The School of Education)
• Montgomery County, Maryland Campus (Offers part-time Programs in Biosciences, Engineering, Business & Education)
• Washington, D.C. (Branches of The Carey Business School and The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences' Advanced Academic Programs (AAP))

International

• The SAIS Bologna Center, Italy
• The SAIS Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, China
• Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (Collaboration between the Peabody Institute and the National University of Singapore)

Campus sustainability

Johns Hopkins University has implemented a number of sustainability initiatives. Energy retrofits in certain buildings have resulted in energy conservation of over 50 percent. Carbon emissions are currently being inventoried and electric vehicles are used for some campus transportation needs. Dining services managers prioritize the purchasing of locally sourced produce and seafood, and organic food is being integrated into the menu. In addition, the smaller cafés around campus sell exclusively organic, shade-grown coffees. There is currently a small pilot composting program on the undergraduate campus. The University is currently pursuing LEED certification for several new and existing buildings. Retrofits include a green roof deck, experimentation with waterless urinals and low-flow shower heads, and upgraded fluorescent lighting that has reduced lighting load on one campus by over 40 percent. Similar lighting retrofits are underway at all other campuses. In 2004, one campus completed a water conservation retrofit that annually saves over eight million gallons of water. The university's students have also contributed significantly to several environmental initiatives including, setting up the JHU recycling program, hosting a national "Greening" conference, launching a transportation shuttle service between campuses, and making the campus more bike-friendly. Each year, students conduct the "S.E.X.:I.T." competition to see which dormitory can save the most electricity. In 2011, the Sustainable Endowments Institute gave Johns Hopkins a College Sustainability Report Card grade of "C+." In particular the Institute criticized JHU for failing to disclose its endowment's holdings and proxy voting record on environmental issues.

Organization

Johns Hopkins is two separate corporations, the university and The Johns Hopkins Health System, which was formed in 1986. The latter has grown to be a bigger entity with its FY 2005 consolidated net revenue of $3.3 billion, and its components employed a total of 27,700 people, including some 4,700 full-time physicians.

JHU's bylaws specify that its Board should have between 18 and 65 voting members. Board-elected trustees serve six-year terms subject to a two-term limit. The alumni select 12 trustees, and four recent alumni are elected to serve 4-year terms, one per year, typically from the graduating senior class. The bylaws prohibit students faculty or administrative staff from serving on the Board, except the President as an ex-officio trustee. The Johns Hopkins Health System has a separate Board of Trustees, many of whom are doctors or health care executives. Some JHU Trustees also serve on the Johns Hopkins Health System Board.

In 2009, JHU ranked fifth among universities in the U.S. in fund-raising, collecting $433.39 million in private support.

The President is JHU's chief executive officer, and the university is organized into nine academic divisions.

Academics

Johns Hopkins is a large, highly-residential, majority post-graduate research university. The full-time, four year undergraduate program is "most selective" with low transfer-in and a high graduate co-existence. The university is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities (AAU); it is also a member of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE) and the Universities Research Association (URA).

Undergraduate Admissions

Johns Hopkins University
C/O 2014 Applicants	18,455
C/O 2014 Admitted	3,764 (20.4%)
SAT Median	720R, 750M, 730W
Freshman Class	1,235
Undergrad. Colleges	2 (AS, ENG)
Academic Offerings	50 Majors

Johns Hopkins had a record applicant pool for the eighth year in a row for the Class of 2014 with 18,455 applicants, a 14% increase from the previous year. 20.4% of applicants were accepted.

Johns Hopkins received 16,123 applications for the Class of 2013. The undergraduate programs accepted 4,318 applications or 26.8% and enrolled 1,350 students (31.3%), one of the largest undergraduate classes in its history.

In 2008, Johns Hopkins received 16,006 applications for the 2008–2009 academic year. The undergraduate programs enrolled 4,591 students and granted 1,464 degrees in 2007. 14,848 students applied for admissions to the undergraduate program for the 2007–2008 academic year, 3,603 were admitted (24%), and 1,206 enrolled (33%). 82% of admitted students graduate in the top tenth of their high school class and the inter-quartile range on the SAT reading was 660-760, math was 690-780, and writing was 670-760. 97% of freshmen rematriculated after the first year, 84% of students graduated in 4 years and 91% graduated in 6 years.

Rankings

Academic rankings
National
U.S. News & World Report	13
Washington Monthly	25
Global
ARWU	18
THE	13

The 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranked Hopkins ^#18 internationally (^#16 nationally) and 3rd in the world for Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy. In 2010, Johns Hopkins ranked 13th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and 17th in the QS World University Rankings Johns Hopkins University placed ^#3 in the 2010 HEEACT – Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, ranked ^#7 among Top Performing Schools according to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index (FSPI) in 2008, and was listed ^#9 among research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance in 2007. At the undergraduate level, Hopkins was ranked ^#13 among National Universities by U.S. News and World Report (USNWR).

For medical and public health research U.S. News and World Report ranked the School of Medicine ^#2 and has consistently ranked the Bloomberg School of Public Health ^#1 in the nation. The School of Nursing was ranked ^#4 nationally among peer institutions. The Times Higher Education Supplement ranked Johns Hopkins University ^#3 in the world for biomedicine and life sciences. Hopkins ranks ^#1 nationally in receipt of federal research funds and the School of Medicine is ^#1 among medical schools in receipt of extramural awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Newsweek named Johns Hopkins as the "Hottest School for Pre-meds" in 2008. The Johns Hopkins Hospital was ranked as the top hospital in the United States for the eighteenth year in a row by the U.S. News and World Report annual ranking of American hospitals.

The university's graduate programs in the areas of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, Engineering (Biomedical, Electrical & Environmental), Human Development & Family Studies, Health Sciences, Humanities, Physical & Mathematical Sciences and International Affairs & Development all rank among the top-10 of their respective disciplines.

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) ranked #1 (2005), #2 (2007), and #2 (2009), by College of William and Mary's surveys conducted once every two years beginning in 2005, for its MA program among the world's top schools of International Affairs for those who want to pursue a policy career.

The School of Education is ranked ^#6 nationally by U.S. News and World Report. Although no formal rankings exist for music conservatories, the Peabody Institute is generally considered one of the most prestigious conservatories in the country, along with Juilliard and the Curtis Institute.

Libraries

The Johns Hopkins University Library system houses more than 3.6 million volumes. It includes ten main divisions: the Sheridan Libraries at Homewood, the Medical Institutions Libraries, the School of Nursing Library, Abraham M. Lilienfeld Library at the Bloomberg School, the Peabody Institute Library, the Carey Business School and School of Education libraries, the School of Advanced International Studies Libraries (Sydney R. and Elsa W. Mason Library and Bologna Center Library), the R.E. Gibson Library at the Applied Physics Laboratory Library and other minor satellite locations, as well as the archives.

Milton S. Eisenhower Library

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library, located on the Homewood campus, is the main library. It houses over 2.6 million volumes and over 20,000 journal subscriptions. The Eisenhower Library is a member of the university's Sheridan Libraries encompassing collections at the Albert D. Hutzler Reading Room (called "The Hut" by students) in Gilman Hall, the John Work Garrett Library at Evergreen House, and the George Peabody Library at Mount Vernon Place. Together these collections provide the major research library resources for the university, serving Johns Hopkins academic programs worldwide. The library was named for Milton S. Eisenhower, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower. JHU's library was originally housed in Gilman Hall, and the library stacks in that building continue to house certain collections.

Only two of the Esinehower library's six stories are above ground; the rest are beneath, though architects designed the building so that every level has windows and natural light. The design accords with a bit of traditional campus lore which says no structure on campus can be taller than Gilman Hall, the oldest academic building. There is no written rule regarding building height, however, and the library's design was chosen for architectural and aesthetic reasons when it was finally built in the 1960s. In December 2008, it was announced that a new addition would be constructed directly to the south of the library. The six-and-a-half-story expansion will be named the Brody Learning Commons in honor of University President William R. Brody and will function as a "collaborative learning space". It is scheduled to be completed by 2012.

Research

Johns Hopkins has a high level of research activity. The opportunity to be involved in important research is one of the distinguishing characteristics of an undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins. About 80 percent of the university's undergraduates engage in some form of independent research during their four years, most often alongside top researchers in their fields. In Fiscal Year 2009, Johns Hopkins received $1.856 billion in federal research grants, more than any other university in the United States. Thirty-three (33) Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university as alumni or present or former faculty members. JHU views its academic strengths as being in art history, biological, physical and other natural sciences, biomedical engineering, creative writing, English, history, economics, international studies, medicine, music, neuroscience, nursing, political theory, public health, public policy, and the Romance languages.

Between 1999 and 2009, Johns Hopkins was among the most cited institutions in the world. Having attracted nearly 1,222,166 citations and producing 54,022 papers under its name, it ranks ^#3 globally behind Harvard University and Max Planck Society with the highest total citations to their papers published in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals over all 22 fields in the database in America.

In Fiscal year 2000, Johns Hopkins received $95.4 million in research grants from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), making it the leading recipient of NASA funding for research and development. In Fiscal Year 2002, Hopkins became the first university to cross the $1 billion threshold on either list, recording $1.14 billion in total research and $1.023 billion in federally sponsored research that year. In Fiscal Year 2008, Johns Hopkins University performed $1.68 billion in science, medical and engineering research, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total R&D spending for the 30th year in a row, according to a National Science Foundation (NSF) ranking. Since 1979, these totals include $845 million of grants and expenditures of JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

Research centers and institutes

Divisional

• School of Medicine (28)
• School of Public Health (70)
• School of Nursing (2)
• School of Arts and Sciences (27)
• School of Advanced International Studies (17)
• School of Engineering (16)
• School of Education (3)
• Applied Physics Laboratory

Medical

• Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
• Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Centre
• Howard County General Hospital

Others

• Center for Biotechnology
• The Center for Language and Speech Processing
• Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
• The Berman Institute of Bioethics
• Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute
• Space Telescope Science Institute

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The Lower Quad, home to the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University Press

Main article: Johns Hopkins University Press

The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States. To date the Press has published more than 6,000 titles and currently publishes 65 scholarly periodicals and over 200 new books each year. Since 1993, the Johns Hopkins University Press has run Project MUSE, a large online collection of over 250 full-text, peer-reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. The Press also houses the Hopkins Fulfilment Services (HFS), which handles distribution for a number of university presses and publishers. Taken together, the three divisions of the Press - Books, Journals (including MUSE) and HFS - make it one of the largest of America's university presses.

Student life

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Students gather under the holidays lights at the yearly Lighting of the Quad, a Hopkins tradition

The Johns Hopkins Student Government Association represents undergraduates in campus issues and projects. It is elected annually. The blueprints for a new programming board called The Hopkins Organization for Programming ("The HOP") were drawn up during the summer and fall of 2006.

In addition Charles Village, the region of North Baltimore surrounding the university, has undergone several restoration projects, and the university has gradually bought the property around the school for additional student housing and dormitories. The Charles Village Project, scheduled for completion in 2008, brought new commercial spaces to the neighborhood. The project included Charles Commons, a new, modern residence hall that includes a Barnes & Noble and a Starbucks. A Chipotle Mexican Grill and Starbucks have moved in, and the university itself has installed a new Einstein Bros. Bagels franchise in Wolman Hall.

Hopkins has also invested heavily in improving campus life for its students with creation in 2001 of an arts complex, the Mattin Center; and a three-story sports facility, the O'Connor Recreation Center. The large on-campus dining facilities at Homewood were renovated in the summer of 2006, and the caterer was switched from Sodexho to Aramark.

Hopkins has also advertised the "Collegetown" atmosphere it shares with neighboring institutions, including Loyola College, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), UMBC, Goucher College, and Towson University, as well as the proximity of downtown Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Annually, the Johns Hopkins Spring Fair is held on the homewood campus over a three day weekend in mid to late April. Food, arts and crafts, and non-profit vendors, along with a popular musical act and various other activities attract nearly 25,000 people from the greater Baltimore-Washington area. The Spring Fair is planned and run entirely by Johns Hopkins students, making it the largest entirely student-run fair in the country.

Housing

Freshman Residence Hall at JHU

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Johns Hopkins University Campus, Schematic

On-campus housing is required for all freshmen and sophomores at Johns Hopkins, with exceptions for commuter students who live close to campus. Juniors and seniors choose between entering the on-campus housing lottery or moving into nearby apartments or row houses. Housing is not guaranteed for all four years at Johns Hopkins.

Freshmen housing is centered around Freshman Quad which consists of three major residence hall complexes: The Alumni Memorial Residences (AMR I and AMR II), Building A and Building B. AMR I was built in 1923 and AMR II in 1954 and divided into fourteen houses each dedicated to Hopkins Alumni who died in World Wars I and II: Adams, Baker, Clark, Gildersleeve, Griffin, Hollander, Jennings, Lazear, Royce, Sylvester, Vincent, Willard, Wilson and Wood. The first eight houses can be found in AMR II and the last six in AMR I. While each house has its own entrance from outside, there are no dividers indoors that distinguish the houses from one another. In 1983, Buildings A and B were added to Freshmen Quad. Currently they have not yet been dedicated. Freshmen are also housed in Wolman Hall on the other side of North Charles Street from Homewood.

In the spring semester of their freshman year, students enter a housing lottery to determine where they will live during their sophomore year. They are housed in one of four buildings. The first, McCoy Hall is located next to Wolman Hall on North Charles Street. Apartment style housing is offered in the Bradford Apartments, one block east of campus on St. Paul Street, and in the Homewood Apartments, two blocks south.

The last, newest and largest university-owned dormitory is Charles Commons, located at the corner of North Charles and East 33rd. It was completed in 2006 and houses 618 students and represented a major step by the university towards offering on-campus housing to students. Charles Commons, which only features suite-style living consists of two 11-story towers connected by a bridge, and also features a ballroom, fitness center and several conference rooms. The Homewood branch of the Federal Credit Union as well as the Johns Hopkins Barnes and Noble bookstore are located on the ground floor of Charles Commons. Nolan's on 33rd, a dining hall specializing in dinner services is also located in the building.

Whenever there is an overflow of students who are required to live in on-campus housing, JHU rents several buildings on North Charles Street to house the overflow. At full capacity, all of Johns Hopkins dormitory buildings can house approximately 60% of undergraduates. There are many privately-owned apartment buildings around Homewood that are usually filled with Hopkins upperclassmen, so despite the lack of university-owned dormitories, housing is not particularly difficult to attain.

Fraternities and Sororities

The Johns Hopkins University Office of Greek Life recognizes thirteen fraternities and eight sororities, which include as members approximately 20% of the student body. Greek life has been a part of the University culture since 1877, when Beta Theta Pi fraternity became the first Greek letter organization to form a chapter on campus. Sororities did not begin colonizing at Hopkins until 1982. As with all Hopkins programs, discrimination on the basis of "marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status" is prohibited. JHU also has an anti-hazing policy and prohibits alcohol at recruitment activities. Hopkins does not permit "city-wide" chapters, and requires all members of a JHU recognized fraternity or sorority to be a JHU student.

As of Spring 2010, 1,058 students were members of one of the Johns Hopkins University fraternities or sororities and the All-Greek Average GPA was 3.31, above the average GPA for all Johns Hopkins University Undergraduates. The university is considering construction of a "fraternity row" of houses to consolidate the groups on campus.

All Johns Hopkins fraternities and sororities belong to one of four Councils: the Inter-Fraternity Council, the National Panhellenic Conference, the National Pan-Hellenic Council and the Multicultural Council.

The Inter-Fraternity Council includes eleven fraternities:

• ΑΔΦ - Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, chapter founded 1889.
• ΑΕΠ - Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, Psi chapter founded 1936. Jewish interest.
• ΒΘΠ - Beta Theta Pi fraternity, Alpha Chi chapter founded 1877.
• ΛΦΕ - Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity, Upsilon chapter founded 1994. Asian-American interest.
• ΦΔΘ - Phi Delta Theta fraternity, Maryland Delta chapter founded 2008.
• ΦΓΔ - Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Beta Mu chapter founded 1891.
• ΦΚΨ - Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, Maryland Alpha chapter founded 1879.
• ΠΚΑ - Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, Iota Tau chapter founded 1994.
• ΣΑΕ - Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, chapter founded 1994.
• ΣΧ - Sigma Chi fraternity, Kappa Upsilon chapter founded 2002.
• ΣΦΕ - Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, Maryland Alpha chapter founded 1929.

The National Panhellenic Conference includes four sororities:

• ΑΦ - Alpha Phi sorority, Zeta Omicron chapter founded 1982.
• ΚΚΓ - Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, Eta Epsilon chapter founded 1999.
• ΦM - Phi Mu sorority, Gamma Tau chapter founded 1982.
• ΠBΦ - Pi Beta Phi sorority, Maryland Gamma colony will be chartered in November 2010.

The National Pan-Hellenic Council includes two historically African-American groups:

• ΑΦΑ - Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Sigma Sigma chapter founded 1991.
• ΣΓP - Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, Rho Omega chapter founded 2009.

The Multicultural Council includes four groups:

• αΚΔΦ - alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority, associate chapter founded 1997. Asian-American interest.
• ΔΞΦ - Delta Xi Phi sorority, Lambda chapter founded 2003. Multicultural interest.
• INΔ - Iota Nu Delta fraternity, chapter founded 2008. South Asian interest.
• ΣΟΠ - Sigma Omicron Pi sorority, Lambda chapter founded 2002. Asian-American interest.

Delta Phi Fraternity, also known as St. Elmo's, maintains a chapter exclusive to students at Johns Hopkins, though it is not recognized by the University's Office of Greek Life.

Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta African-American interest sororities often recruit Johns Hopkins undergraduates, as city-wide chapters. Delta Sigma Theta was the first National Pan-Hellenic Council member to charter on the campus in 1976, as well as the first sorority of any kind on the JHU campus.

Kappa Alpha Theta, a National Panhellenic Conference sorority, was removed from campus by their national headquarters on April 14, 2009 after twelve years on campus. Their removal was due to risk management violations.

In March 2010, Johns Hopkins University officially opened for NPC extension. In May 2010, the University Panhellenic Council selected Pi Beta Phi to form a colony on campus. Pi Beta Phi colonized at Johns Hopkins in September 2010.

Recruitment for Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic Conference fraternities and sororities takes place during the spring semester for freshmen, though some groups recruit upperclassmen during the fall semester. All students who wish to participate in Recruitment must have completed one semester in college and must be in good academic standing.

Many of the fraternities maintain houses off campus, but none of the sororities do. Baltimore City zoning codes allow for housing to be zoned specifically for used as a fraternity or sorority house, but in practice this zoning code has not been awarded for at least 50 years. Only Sigma Phi Epsilon owns a residence officially zoned by the City of Baltimore for use as a fraternity house due to the fraternity's consistent ownership of the property since the 1920s when this zoning code was still in use.

Student publications

Hopkins has many publications that are produced entirely by students. The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, founded in 1896, is one of the oldest continuously published weekly college newspaper in the nation with a press run of 5,200. The News-Letter won a Associated Collegiate Press Newspaper Pacemaker award for four-year, non-daily college newspapers in 2007. The Hopkins Donkey is a political newspaper with a Democratic perspective on international, national and state-wide political topics. The Carrollton Record is a political newspaper with an American conservative perspective on campus and city-wide politics. Epidemic Proportions is the university's public health research journal, designed to highlight JHU research and field work in public health. Combining research and scholarship, the journal seeks to capture the breadth and depth of the JHU undergraduate public health experience. Thoroughfare, Zeniada and j.mag are literary magazines. Prometheus is the undergraduate philosophy journal. Frame of Reference is an annual magazine that focuses on film and film culture. The New Diplomat is the multi-disciplinary international relations journal. Foundations is the undergraduate history journal. Américas is the Latin American Studies journal. Argot is the undergraduate anthropology journal. The Triple Helix is the university's journal to address issues concerning science, law and society. Perspectives is the official newsletter of the Black Student Union.

The Black & Blue Jay is among the nation's oldest campus humor magazines. It was founded in 1920. According to The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, it was the magazine's name which led the News-Letter to first use the moniker Blue Jays to refer to a Hopkins athletic team in 1923. While the magazine enjoyed popularity among students, it received repeated opposition from the university administration, reportedly for its vulgar sense of humor. In October 1934, Dean Edward R. Berry removed financial support for the magazine; without funding, the magazine continued under the name The Blue Jay until Berry threatened to expel the editors in 1939. The magazine had a revival in 1984, and has published intermittently since then.

Student-Run Businesses

Hopkins Student Enterprises (HSE)[1] is a startup incubator at Johns Hopkins University with the goal of fostering student innovation and encouraging the development of new student-run businesses. Currently, 4 student-run businesses are in operation:

• Hopkins Consulting Agency (HCA) - Business and technology consulting company that prepares technology commercialization reports and business plans for a variety of clients.

• Hopkins Student Storage (HSS) - Moving and storage company that serves JHU faculty, staff, and students and the broader Baltimore community.[2]

• Hopkins Student Creative Services (HSCS) - Full service graphic design company providing services for brochures, business cards, logos, website creation, and video editing.[3]

• Hopkins Translation Services (HTS) - Translation company that offers written and verbal translations services in multiple languages for JHU divisions and the broader Baltimore community.

Athletics

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Athletics logo

Main article: Johns Hopkins Blue Jays

Athletic teams at Johns Hopkins are called the Blue Jays. Even though sable and gold are used for academic robes, the university's athletic colors are Columbia blue (PMS 284) and black. Hopkins celebrates Homecoming in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season. Other than the Men's and Women's Division I lacrosse teams, Hopkins participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III and the Centennial Conference. JHU is also home to the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, maintained by US Lacrosse.

Men's lacrosse

Main article: Johns Hopkins Blue Jays men's lacrosse

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Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse at Homewood Field.

The school's most prominent team is its Division I men's lacrosse team. The team is an independent and does not belong to a conference. The team enjoys a winning tradition and has won 44 national titles - nine National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I (2007, 2005, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1974), 29 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), and six Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) titles. Hopkins' primary national lacrosse rivals are Princeton University, Syracuse University, and the University of Virginia; its primary intrastate rivals are Loyola College (in what was once called the "Charles Street Massacre"), Towson University, the United States Naval Academy, and the University of Maryland. The rivalry with Maryland is the oldest, the schools having met 103 times since 1899, with two of those meetings being in playoffs.

Women's lacrosse

Main article: Johns Hopkins Blue Jays women's lacrosse

The school's Division I women's lacrosse team is a member of the American Lacrosse Conference (ALC). The team is developing into a top twenty caliber team. The Lady Blue Jays were ranked number 19 in the 2008 Inside Lacrosse Women's DI Media Poll (ILWDIMP). They ranked number 8 in both the 2007 Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA) Poll for Division I and the ILWDIMP. In 2006, they were ranked 14th in the ILWDIMP, in 2005, they were 11th, and, in 2004, they were 9th. However, recently the team has struggled and finished with a record of 5 wins and 12 losses in the 2009 season.

Other teams

Hopkins also has several notable Division III Athletic teams. In 2009-2010, Hopkins won 8 Centennial Conference titles in Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field, Baseball, Men's and Women's Soccer, Football, and Men's and Women's Tennis. The Women's Cross Country team became the first women's team at Hopkins to achieve a #1 National ranking. 2006–2007 saw Hopkins winning the Centennial Conference titles in Baseball, Men's and Women's Soccer, Men's and Women's Tennis and Men's Basketball. Hopkins also has an acclaimed fencing team, which has ranked in the top three of Division III teams in the past few years and in both 2008 and 2007 defeated the University of North Carolina, a Division I team. In 2008, they defeated UNC by one bout, winning the MACFA championship. The Swimming team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years. The Men's Swimming team placed second at DIII Nationals in 2008. The Water Polo team has been number one in Division III for several of the past years, playing a full schedule against Division I opponents. Hopkins also has a century-old rivalry with McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College), playing the Green Terrors 83 times in football since the first game in 1894. In 2009 the football team reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III tournament. In 2008, the Hopkins Blue Jays Baseball team was Second in the country, losing in the final game of the DIII College World Series to Trinity College.

Notable alumni, faculty and staff

Main article: List of Johns Hopkins University people

Nobel laureates

Main article: List of Nobel laureates affiliated with Johns Hopkins University

As of 2009, there have been 33 Nobel Laureates, who attended the university as undergraduate students, graduate students or were members of the faculty at any time. Woodrow Wilson, who received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1886, was the first Johns Hopkins-affiliated laureate, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919. Four Nobel Prizes were shared by Johns Hopkins laureates: George Minot and George Whipple won the 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Spencer Gasser won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Daniel Nathans and Hamilton O. Smith won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, and David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Eighteen Johns Hopkins laureates have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, more than any other category. Twenty-three laureates were members of the Johns Hopkins faculty, five laureates received their Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, eight laureates received their M.D. at Johns Hopkins, and two laureates, Francis Peyton Rous and Martin Rodbell, received their undergraduate degrees at Johns Hopkins.

See also

• Johns Hopkins University in Popular Culture

External links

• Official website
• Official Athletics website
• Johns Hopkins University Office of Undergraduate Admissions