JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

'The Johns Hopkins University', founded in 1876, is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Johns Hopkins offers its main undergraduate and graduate programs at the Homewood campus in Baltimore and maintains full-time campuses in greater Maryland, Washington, D.C., Italy, and China. Johns Hopkins was the first university in the United States to emphasize research applying the German university model developed by Alexander von Humboldt and Friedrich Schleiermacher.

General information

Gilman Hall

The Johns Hopkins University is named for Johns Hopkins, who left $7 million in his 1867 incorporation papers and 1873 will for the foundation of the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital. At the time, this was the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history, the equivalent of over $131 million in the year 2006. Hopkins is no stranger to significant monetary gifts; in 2001, Sidney Kimmel, founder and chairman of Jones Apparel Group, donated $150 million for cancer research. Though Kimmel’s gift is the largest single gift in the university’s history, alumnus Michael Bloomberg's confirmed personal donations total over $200 million. Bloomberg, whose first donation of $5 was given in 1964, the year he graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, is the largest individual benefactor in the university's history.^[3]
The university opened on February 22, 1876, with the stated goal of "The encouragement of research... and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell."^[4]
The university's first president was Daniel Coit Gilman. Its motto in Latin is ''Veritas vos liberabit'' – "The truth shall make you free." The undergraduate student population at Hopkins was all male until 1970 although many graduate programs were integrated earlier.
Johns Hopkins was the first American research university,^[5]
and the first American university to teach through seminars, instead of solely through lectures.^[6] The university was the first in America to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts curriculum) and the first American university to grant doctoral degrees.^[7] Johns Hopkins was a model for most large research universities in the United States, particularly the University of Chicago.^[8]

Research

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.^[9] Johns Hopkins receives more federal research grants than any other university in the United States.^[10] The university is affiliated with 32 Nobel laureates. It boasts a wide spectrum in terms of its academic strengths, particularly in art history, biological and natural sciences, biomedical engineering, creative writing, English, history, economics, international studies, medicine, neuroscience, political theory, public health, public policy, and the Romance languages.
Johns Hopkins is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities (AAU) and a member of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).
The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.44 billion in science, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2005, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total R&D spending for the 27th year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking.^[11] The university also ranked first on the NSF's separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.277 billion in FY2005 on research supported by such agencies as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the NSF and the Department of Defense.^[11] In FY2002, Johns 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.

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 (1795-1873).

Stamp issued under the U.S. Postal Service's Great Americans Series

Milton Eisenhower, a president of JHU, was once invited to speak to a convention in Pittsburgh. Making a common mistake, the emcee introduced him as "President of ''John'' Hopkins." Eisenhower retorted that he was "glad to be here in ''Pitt''burgh."^[13]
In a commencement address to the undergraduate Class of 2001, university president William R. Brody had the following to say about the name:^[14]
: "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 our diplomas only upon individuals of outstanding capabilities and great talent. And we continue to spell Johns with an 's'."

Rankings

The Johns Hopkins University consists of nine academic divisions: the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Carey Business School, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Peabody Institute, School of Education, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Whiting School of Engineering.
Johns Hopkins is particularly regarded for its hospital and schools of medicine, public health, and international studies. The Johns Hopkins Hospital was ranked as the top hospital in the United States for the seventeenth year in a row by the ''U.S. News and World Report'' annual ranking of American hospitals.^[15]
For medical research, ''U.S. News'' ranked the School of Medicine second nationally and School of Public Health first nationally for 2007,^[16]
and, in an August 2005 study,
U.S. News and World Report has also consistently ranked the school of public health #1 in the nation for many years.
''"What do you consider the top five terminal masters [sic] programs in international relations for students looking to pursue a policy career? [65% of respondents included Johns Hopkins.]"'' (p. 26)

"Teaching and Research Practices, Views on the Discipline, and Policy Attitudes of International Relations Faculty at U.S. Colleges and Universities"

The study's results also appeared in ''Foreign Policy'' (Nov/Dec 2005). the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) was ranked as the top master's program in international relations.
The Chronicle of Higher Education ranking placed the Economics department at The Johns Hopkins University 4th in 2006, the current year's ranking is yet to be released.
In its annual National Universities ranking, ''U.S. News'' ranked The Johns Hopkins University 14th (tied with Brown University and Northwestern University) for 2008,^[17]
up from 16th in 2007. Hopkins is also one of a select group of universities to have been ranked one of the top 10 in the nation.^[18]

Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences

Located at the university’s Homewood campus at the Charles Village neighborhood in northern Baltimore, the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is one of nine divisions of the Johns Hopkins University. Directly descended from the original Johns Hopkins University, which was founded as the nation’s first research university in 1876, the Krieger School is the core institution of the university and offers undergraduate and graduate programs.^[19] With over 60 undergraduate majors and minors and over 40 full-time and part-time graduate programs, the Krieger School’s educational offerings also summer programs available to high school students, undergraduate students from any college or university, and a post-baccalaureate pre-medical program.^[20] Among these academic programs, the Krieger School’s Astronomy, Biology, Creative Writing, English, German, History, and History of Art departments are among the top-ranked in the nation.^[21] In addition, not only are faculty members expected to spend as much time researching as teaching, but also, there are numerous research opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students, ranging from the university-sponsored Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Program to the nationwide Fulbright Hays Program for graduate students.^[22] The most recent enrollment figures available number that the Krieger School has 2,790 undergraduate students, 32 post-baccalaureate students, 924 full-time graduate students, and 1,379 part-time graduate students.^[23]

Humanities

Hopkins students find areas of study in the humanities at Hopkins that either were not available in secondary school or were encountered only at an elementary or introductory level. Courses are offered in philosophy, classical Latin and Greek, history of art, creative writing, comparative literature, Near Eastern studies, film and media studies, and history of science and technology, as well as in
the more familiar areas of English and American literature, history, and modern foreign languages. A departmental major allows the student to study a specific discipline in depth and generally leads to advanced study beyond the baccalaureate degree. Students should plan on a fairly broad program in the humanities for the first two years. As their interests begin to focus on some specialty, students normally devote the last two years to intensive study in their major or concentration. The humanities faculty is made up of eminent scholars, helpful both as teachers and advisers. Advanced courses
are usually small, permitting the development of good teacher-student relationships.

Natural Sciences

For the student considering a career in the sciences, Johns Hopkins has much to offer at the
undergraduate level. The departments of Biology, Biophysics, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, and Physics and Astronomy offer programs leading to bachelor’s
degrees. All programs offer a sound foundation in the sciences and mathematics and require course
work in the humanities and social sciences. Some require a degree of proficiency in a modern foreign
language.
Research has always played an important role in the development of scientific ideas and in technological
advancement. Most of the faculty members in the natural sciences are actively engaged in research, most often with graduate students. Undergraduates are also encouraged to undertake research under the direction of faculty members. While many of the programs and activities of the science departments are geared to preparation for graduate studies, the breadth and flexibility of the basic programs assure the student of an able preparation for any career in the sciences or related fields as an undergraduate.

Social & Behavioral Sciences

The Hopkins student interested in the social or behavioral sciences will find a variety of programs
available in anthropology, economics, geography, history, political science, psychological and brain
sciences, and sociology. As in most of the other academic areas at Johns Hopkins, the departments are
oriented toward research and the curricula are primarily designed to lead to graduate study. Programs
in the social and behavioral sciences are useful as preparation for advanced study in law, medicine,
government, business, and urban problems. Independent work is encouraged. A program in the social and behavioral sciences should cover the basic courses in related areas during the first two
years. Courses in mathematics, statistics, and computer science will also be helpful, as most department
programs have quantitative applications.
The Krieger School's degree-granting departments, programs, and centers include:

★ Anthropology [2]

★ Biology [3]

★ Biophysics [4]

★ Chemistry [5]

★ Classics [6]

★ Cognitive Science [7]

★ Earth and Planetary Sciences [8]

★ Economics [9]

★ English [10]

★ Program in Film and Media Studies [11]

★ German and the Romance languages [12]

★ History [13]

★ History of Art [14]

★ History of Science and Technology [15]

★ The Humanities Center [16]

★ International Studies program [17]

★ Near Eastern Studies [18]

★ Philosophy [19]

★ Physics and Astronomy [20]

★ Institute for Public Policy [21]

★ Psychological and Brain Sciences

★ Political Science [22]

★ Public Health Studies [23]

★ Sociology [24].

★ Writing Seminars

Notably, the French department was recognized as a "Center of Excellence" in the study of French culture and language by the government of France, one of only six in the United States. The Writing Seminars department, a program in creative writing, was ranked second-best in the nation by ''US News and World Report''.

G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering

Engineering Quad

Engineering at Johns Hopkins was originally created in 1913 as an educational program that included exposure to liberal arts and scientific inquiry.^[24] In 1919, the engineering department became a separate school, known as the School of Engineering. By 1937, over 1,000 students had graduated with engineering degrees. By 1946 the school had six departments.
In 1961, the School of Engineering changed its name to the School of Engineering Sciences and, in 1979, was renamed the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering. The school's named benefactor is George William Carlyle Whiting, co-founder of the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company.
The Whiting School contains ten departments:

★ Applied Mathematics & Statistics [25]

★ Biomedical Engineering [26], ranked best in the nation by ''U.S. News''

★ Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering [27]

★ Computer Science [28]

★ Electrical and Computer Engineering [29]

★ Civil Engineering [30]

★ Geography and Environmental Engineering [31]

★ Materials Science & Engineering [32]

★ Mechanical Engineering [33]

★ Applied Physics (at the Applied Physics Laboratory)
Notably, the Department of Biomedical Engineering is recognized as one of the best in the country. Also, the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering was ranked as one of the top 5 programs nationally by ''US News and World Report [34]'' in recent years(2005 No.3, 2006 No.2).

Professional schools

In addition to the graduate programs at the Homewood campus, Johns Hopkins has several internationally respected graduate professional schools:

★ The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, is headquartered at the university's Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore with Johns Hopkins Hospital.

★ The Bloomberg School of Public Health, founded in 1916, is the first and largest public health school in the world.

★ The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, founded in 1889, is home to the nation's first Peace Corps Fellows Program in nursing.

★ The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, based in Washington, DC, near Dupont Circle, is devoted to international studies, particularly international relations, diplomacy, and economics. (It is familiarly known as "SAIS", pronounced like the second syllable of ''precise''). SAIS has full-time international campuses in Bologna, Italy and Nanjing, China. Founded in 1943, the School became a part of the university in 1950. SAIS was ranked in a recent survey as the nation's top master's degree program in international relations.

★ The Peabody Institute, founded in 1857, is the oldest continuously active music conservatory in the United States. Located in Baltimore's Mount Vernon neighborhood, 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.

★ Founded in 1909, the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education ("SPSBE") served the educational needs of working adults through flexible programming that allows serious students to complete degrees while maintaining careers. The school evolved from a teacher’s college within the Johns Hopkins University to one of eight major schools in the university. On January 1, 2007, the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education (SPSBE) separated into two new schools — the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and the Johns Hopkins University School of Education.^[25]
The university also offers education abroad through centers in Germany, Singapore, and Italy. The university operates the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, which specializes in research for the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA and other Government agencies. The Space Telescope Science Institute is located on the Homewood campus and controls, analyzes, and collects data from the Hubble Space Telescope. The recently opened Information Security Institute ^[26] is the newest addition to the graduate programs affiliated with Johns Hopkins. The Institute is the "university's focal point for research and education in information security, assurance and privacy." JHUISI is the only Institute in the Whiting School with an academic degree program, offering the Master of Science in Security Informatics (MSSI).

Homewood campus

The original main university campus was in downtown Baltimore City. However, this location did not permit room for growth and the trustees began to look for a place to move. Eventually, they would relocate to the estate of Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Homewood House, a wedding gift from Charles to his son Charles Jr.
The park-like main campus of Johns Hopkins, Homewood, is set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in the northern part of Baltimore. The architecture was modeled after the Georgian-inspired Federalist style of Homewood House. Most newer buildings resemble this style, being built of red brick with white marble trim, but lack the details. Homewood House was later used for administrative offices but now is preserved as a museum.
As a part of the donation, Hopkins was required to donate part of the land for art. As a result, the Baltimore Museum of Art, which is not part of the university, is situated next to the University's campus, just southeast of Shriver Hall.
The Decker Gardens, bordered by the Greenhouse, Nichols House and the Johns Hopkins Club, were originally known as the Botanical Gardens and were used by members of the Department of Biology to grow plants for research. By the early 1950s, the gardens no longer served an educational purpose, and in 1958, when Nichols House was built as the president's residence, they were completely re-landscaped with aesthetic criteria in mind. In 1976, the gardens were done over again, and named for trustee Alonzo G. Decker, Jr. and members of his family in appreciation for their generosity to Hopkins.
The statue in the middle of the pool, the Sea Urchin, was sculpted by Edward Berge. It stood in Mount Vernon Place, near the Washington Monument, for 34 years before being replaced by a 7'10" copy, which fit in better with its monumental surroundings. Frank R. Huber, the man who left the city the money to make the copy, asked that the original be given to Paul M. Higinbotham, who donated it to the university. North of the campus, also on Charles Street, we find the Evergreen House, one Hopkins' museums.

Students & Admissions

Johns Hopkins University Facts
Class of 2011 Applicants	14,842
Class of 2011 Students	1,205
Class of 2011 Accepted	24%
Middle 50% SAT	2000-2280
Middle 50% ACT	30-34
Undergraduates	4,417
Student:Faculty Ratio	9:1
Majors Available	49
Minors Available	38
Faculty with Terminal Degrees	94%
Classes taught by Faculty	96%

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A total of 14,842 high school seniors applied for regular admission to the Johns Hopkins Class of 2011, an increase of 7 percent over the total for the Class of 2010 and of 30 percent over the Class of 2009.^[28]Regular decision admission was offered to 3,145 students; those who enroll will join the 443 who were admitted early. The target class size is 1,205, with 800 enrolled in Arts and Sciences and 405 in Engineering.^[28] The highest number of acceptances went out to, in order, applicants from New York, California, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The total of admits includes 325 who identified themselves as African-American, 302 Hispanic and 21 Native American.^[28]
Students residing in all 50 states, D.C., two U.S. territories (Guam and Puerto Rico) and 57 countries were offered admission this year. The total number of non-U.S. citizens admitted was 189.^[28]Once again, Baltimore students are well-represented in the admitted class, with 31 students selected for the Baltimore Scholars Program. The admittance rate was a strikingly low 24 percent. Just two years ago, the rate was 35 percent.^[28]
Johns Hopkins accepted 27 percent of 13,869 applicants for entrance into the fall 2006 freshman class. Undergraduate students matriculate from all 50 states and more than 50 countries. Within six years of graduation, 85 percent of Hopkins students earn graduate degrees, the highest percentage in the nation.
The number of applicants has increased by 156 percent from 2002, one of the largest increases in the U.S. In 2006 the pool of admitted students closely resembled that of 2005. The average SAT score remained constant at 1440, while average high school GPA has increased by only 0.02 points, to 3.85.^[33]
Approximately 48 percent of undergraduates receive financial aid at Johns Hopkins University. The average need-based financial aid package for freshmen totals $29,472 for the Class of 2010. Further, the total grants and scholarships awarded to students in 2004-2005 was $41,570,000.
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There are multiple scholarships available for students including, but not limited to the Baltimore Scholars Program, Bloomberg Scholarship, Hodson-Gilliam Success Scholarship, Hodson Trust Scholarship, ROTC (Army) Scholarship, Trustee Scholarship, Charles R. Westgate Scholarship, and the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship.^[35]

Student life

The blueprints for a new programming board called The Hopkins Organization for Programming ("The HOP") were drawn on up during the summer and fall of 2006.
Johns Hopkins currently supports 12 fraternities and four sororities sponsored by the Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic society, including the fraternities Sigma Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon ("SigEp"), Sigma Alpha Epsilon ("S.A.E."), Delta Sigma Pi, Lambda Phi Epsilon, Beta Theta Pi, Alpha Delta Phi ("Wawa"), Alpha Epsilon Pi, Phi Kappa Psi ("Phi Psi"), Phi Gamma Delta ("Fiji"), and Pi Kappa Alpha ("Pike"), and the sororities Alpha Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Phi Mu.
Approximately 1/5 of male undergraduates and 1/5 of female undergraduates belong to the Greek system. Most of the fraternities maintain houses off campus; the sororities tend not to do so. As at many American universities, it is a widely believed rumor that the sororities are not permitted to have houses because of a state "Brothel Law" prohibiting the cohabitation of more than eight women. The ''Johns Hopkins News-Letter'' even reported the existence of such a law in 2001.^[36] ''Snopes.com'' reports that such laws do not exist.^[37]
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, will bring new commercial spaces to the neighborhood. The project includes Charles Commons, a new, modern residence hall that includes a Barnes & Noble and a Starbucks.^[38] A Chipotle Mexican Grill and Starbucks have moved in, and the university itself has installed a new Einstein Bros. Bagels^[39] 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, UMBC, Goucher College, and Towson University, as well as the proximity of downtown Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

Student publications

Homewood House. Acquired by The Johns Hopkins University in 1902, Homewood stands today as one of the nation's best surviving examples of Federal Period architecture

Hopkins has many publications that are produced entirely by students.
''The Johns Hopkins News-Letter'', founded in 1896, is the oldest continuously published college newspaper in the nation, and is published weekly.[36]
''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.[37]
''Zeniada'' and ''j.mag'' are literary magazines.
''Prometheus'' is the undergraduate philosophy journal.[38] ''Frame of Reference'' is an annual magazine that focuses on film and film culture [39].
''The Diplomat'' is the multi-disciplinary international relations journal.
''The Black & Blue Jay'' is among the nation's oldest humor magazines. It was founded in 1920.^[40]
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.^[41]
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.^[42]

Medical institutions campus

This urban campus is in the East Baltimore neighborhood and is home to the School of Medicine, the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the School of Nursing. It comprises several city blocks spreading from the original Johns Hopkins Hospital building and its trademark dome. The School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University is associated with clinical practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Library system

Peabody Library at the Peabody Conservatory Division of Hopkins

The Johns Hopkins University Library system houses more than 3.6 million volumes.^[43] 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.
The Milton S. Eisenhower Library (called "MSE" by students), 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.
Only two of the MSE 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.
The Peabody Institute Library was begun with the June 16, 1852 donation from George Peabody. George Peabody was born in South Danvers (now Peabody) in 1795 and by the year of 1851 had risen in the business world to become an investment banker in London. Danvers Mechanic Institute's decision to name George Peabody as an honorary member. Proud of their native son, the Danvers Mechanic Institute named George Peabody an honorary member on January 5, 1852. This subscription based institute, located in South Danvers , was both library and lyceum. Though the committee selected to inform Peabody of this honor waited until after Danvers was informed of the donation, it is possible his awareness of this institution influenced Peabody in deciding the type of institution he wished to create.

The 'Green Campus' at Hopkins

The Johns Hopkins University was named in 2007 as a university making significant commitments to sustainability. As a major formal step towards sustainability, the University hired its first Manager of Energy and Environmental Stewardship in the spring of 2006. Soon after, the University launched a
Sustainability Initiative to coordinate sustainability activities and to develop new programs that
will help to reduce the University’s environmental impact. The Sustainable Development Institute gave Johns Hopkins a C+ for their environmental efforts. ^[44]

Climate Change & Energy

The new Manager of Energy and Environmental Stewardship began work in spring 2006 to upgrade
inefficient appliances and lighting on campus. Energy retrofits in certain buildings have resulted
in energy conservation of over 50 percent. 2007 National Sustainability Report
Carbon emissions are currently being inventoried and
electric vehicles are used for some campus transportation needs. Another portion of transportation needs on the main campus are being met by a partnership with Flexcar, which has four vehicles stationed on-site. The University intends to secure
a percentage of green electricity by working with wind power developers and with a local dairy
farm that converts food and farm wastes into green electricity through anaerobic digestion. Plans
are being developed to install solar thermal panels on the recreation center to provide heating and
hot water needs.

Food & Recycling

Johns Hopkins recently switched its dining services providers from Sodexho to Aramark, citing
improved environmental services as an influential reason for the change. 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.

Green Buildings

The University is currently pursuing LEED certification for several new and existing buildings
and typically considers the feasibility of LEED programs for all new projects that involve upgrades
of existing buildings or new construction. For minor renovations, the University uses LEED
principals as guideposts. 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.

Campus developments

Artist rendering of the new Decker Quadrangle at Hopkins.

The Johns Hopkins University, working with Collegetown Development Alliance, a joint venture team comprised of Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse and Capstone Development recently teamed up to develop a mixed use project featuring student housing, a central dining facility and a major campus bookstore.
The site, called Charles Commons and completed in September 2006, is located at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The approximate 350,000 sq. ft development includes housing for approximately 618 students, with supporting amenity spaces; a central dining facility and specialty dining area with seating capacity of approximately 330; an approximately 29,000 sq. ft. bookstore run by Barnes and Noble College Division which includes the traditional offerings of a college bookstore (textbooks, school supplies, dorm product, etc.) as well as a cafe that serves Starbucks coffee, an extensive assortment of general books, and convenience products.
The Decker Quadrangle development comprehends the last large building site on the contiguous Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University, making it the most important project on campus since the development of the two original quadrangles. In this first phase, the project will include a visitors and admissions center, a computational sciences building, and an underground parking structure, creating a new quadrangle, south of Garland Hall, named in honor of Alonso G. and Virginia G. Decker. Importantly, the project will establish a new public entrance for the campus and recognize the potential for future growth of campus activities sited across Wyman Park Drive.

Artist rendering of Gilman Hall's new atrium.

Recently, the university announced a $73 million renovation of Gilman Hall, the academic centerpiece of the Homewood Campus. The renovation will include updating all classrooms in the building, as well as a full replacement of the infrastructure of the building. Gilman hall, superficially renovated in the 1980s will now include a movie theater and a large atrium, with a glass roof. The atrium will have a sky-walk from the entrance of the building to the Hutzler Undergraduate Reading Room and will contain the university's premier archaeological collection. The project is slated for completion for the 2010-2011 academic year.^[45]

Athletics

Athletic teams at Johns Hopkins are called the Blue Jays. The university's athletic colors are Columbia blue and black. (Sable and gold are used for academic robes.) Hopkins celebrates Homecoming in the spring to coincide with the height of the lacrosse season. Outside of the Men's and Women's Division I lacrosse teams, Hopkins participates in the NCAA's Division III and the Centennial Conference.
The school's most prominent sports team is its men's lacrosse team, which has won 44 national titles - nine NCAA Division I (2007, 2005, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1974), 29 USILA, and six ILA titles. Hopkins' primary national lacrosse rivals are Princeton University, Syracuse University, and the University of Virginia; its primary intrastate rivals are Loyola College, Towson University, the United States Naval Academy, and the University of Maryland, which is considered their most prominent rival in college lacrosse, the schools having met 103 times, with two of those meetings in the playoffs.
The Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, governed by US Lacrosse, is located on the Homewood campus and is adjacent to Homewood Field. Past Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States in international competition. At the 1928 Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration events Hopkins played for the US and team members received Olympic Medals. Hopkins is the only US college team to have members awarded Olympic Gold Medals. They have also gone to Melbourne, Australia to win the 1974 World Lacrosse Championship.
Hopkins is also a powerhouse in Division III Athletics. The 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 2007 defeated University of North Carolina, a Division I team, for the first time. The Swimming team also has ranked in the top two of Division III for the last 10 years. 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.

Presidents of Johns Hopkins

Gilman Hall, as seen from the Upper Quadrangle in the winter

★ 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 - present

Notable alumni, professors, and staff

:''See: List of Johns Hopkins University people''

Affiliates

★ The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, located on the Homewood Campus, is a nationally renowned center for the study of public policy. The Institute forms partnerships with other programs at Johns Hopkins to offer concentrations, specializations, certificates, and dual degrees related to public policy.

★ The Johns Hopkins University Press is a publishing house and division of Johns Hopkins University that engages in publishing journals and books. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press in the United States.

Divisions of the Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins Men's Lacrosse Team

★ Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

★ Whiting School of Engineering

★ Carey Business School

★ Johns Hopkins School of Education

★ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

★ Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

★ Bloomberg School of Public Health

★ Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

★ Peabody Institute

★ Applied Physics Laboratory
Other Hopkins Campuses

★ Bayview Medical Center

★ Bologna Center

★ Charles S. Singleton Center at the Villa Spelman

★ Downtown Center in Baltimore

★ Johns Hopkins Singapore

★ Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies

★ Washington, D.C. Area Campuses

The university in popular culture

In non-fiction

★ The HBO film ''Something the Lord Made'' (2004), based on the true story of Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas (an unusual team for the time), depicts their work as pioneers of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Johns Hopkins defeated Duke University in the 2005 and 2007 Division One National Lacrosse Championship

In fiction

★ In the television series ''NCIS (TV series)'', Special Agent Timothy McGee graduated from MIT and has a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins, revealed in the Episode 'Sub Rosa.'

★ In the television series ''Grey's Anatomy'', the character Dr. Preston Burke is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was first in his class. Dr. Erica Hahn, the cardiac surgeon who performed Denny Duquette's heart transplant, graduated from Hopkins, ranking second only to Dr. Burke.

★ In the movie ''The Prince and Me'', the character Paige Morgan is accepted into the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

★ In the television series ''The Simpsons''', Dr. Julius Hibbert is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

★ In the television series ''House'', the character Dr. Eric Foreman is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Gregory House attended Johns Hopkins for undergraduate and medical school, but was thrown out of the medical school for cheating.

★ In the season two finale of ''Nip/Tuck'' (2003), Christian Troy and Sean McNamara visit Johns Hopkins to find out more about Ava Moore.

★ In the television series ''Judging Amy'', the character Kyle McCarty had attended Johns Hopkins medical school before being expelled.

★ In the Tom Clancy novels, Jack Ryan's wife, Cathy Ryan, is a doctor at the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute. In real life, Clancy created the Tom Clancy Professorship at Wilmer on April 8, 2005.

★ In the movie ''The Rock'' (1995), Dr. Stanley Goodspeed receives his M.A. and Ph.D from Johns Hopkins.

★ In the science fiction movie ''The Island'' (2005), the retinal scans of Lincoln Six Echo are sent to Johns Hopkins for analysis.

★ In the television series "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman" during the Great American Medicine Show episode, Dr. Eli says he graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1848, even though the university was not founded until 1876.

★ In the American television show ''Commander in Chief'', President Allen asks about the results of a recent "John" Hopkins study in episode 18.

★ In an episode of the science-fiction television series ''Stargate Atlantis'', the character Dr. Beckett comments on an applicant to the Atlantis mission as being much more qualified in medicine than he. The applicant was from Johns Hopkins (mispronounced as John Hopkins).

★ In the movie "Outbreak" (1995), Major Salt, the character played by Cuba Gooding Jr., received his master's degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

★ In the movie "Getting In", a college graduate ends up sixth on the waiting list for the Johns Hopkins Medical School and attempts to dissuade six people in front from attending.

★ In the Babylon 5 universe, JHU was where the gene for human telepathy was discovered.

★ Dr. Hanibal Lecter from the Lecter Trilogy by Thomas Harris attends Johns Hopkins University after leaving Europe for America.

★ On the HBO drama ''The Wire'', Baltimore Police Major Howard Colvin looks into a retirement job as deputy director of campus security for JHU.
''For a number of other affiliated fictional characters, see List of Johns Hopkins University people#Fictional associations.''

In film

★ The Nicole Kidman film ''The Invasion (film)'' (2007) was partly filmed in a laboratory in Mudd Hall on the Homewood campus.^[46]^[47]

★ The film ''The Curve'' (1998) was filmed at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University.

★ In the film ''Red Dragon'' (2002), a scene which takes place at the Brooklyn Museum of Art was filmed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, located on the Homewood campus.

★ The HBO film ''Something the Lord Made'' (2004) was filmed both on the Homewood campus and medical campus. However, the hospital depicted in the movie was actually the outside of Gilman Hall and Levering Hall located on the Homewood campus.

Photographs

★ A collection of photographs of the Johns Hopkins Homewood Campus

★ Campus photographs by a Japanese student upon a visit to Baltimore

References

External links

★ Johns Hopkins University Main Website

★ The University’s divisions

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★ Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences

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★ G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering

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★ Carey Business School

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★ School of Education

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★ School of Medicine

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★ School of Nursing

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★ Bloomberg School of Public Health

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★ Peabody Institute

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★ Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

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★ Applied Physics Laboratory (a non-academic division of the university)

★ Johns Hopkins Medicine Website

★ Johns Hopkins University Library Website

★ Johns Hopkins Athletics Website

★ The ''Johns Hopkins News-Letter'' Website

★ Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

★ JhuWiki

★ Educational Perspectives - The Center for Social Concern at Johns Hopkins University

★ Photographs taken in and around the University: flickr

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