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The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Hopkins or JHU, is a private
Private university

Private universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding . Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation....
 research university located in Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

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, Maryland
Maryland

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, United States
United States

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. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

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, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, and China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
. The undergraduate studies
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States....
 program is ranked thirteenth among World Universities by U.S. News and World Report. Johns Hopkins has noted graduate programs in medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University....
, public health, music, and international studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , based in Washington, D.C., is one of the leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education....
. The university is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities
Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research university devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education....
.

The university is named after Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropy creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine....
, who left $7 million in his 1873 will for the foundation of the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins....
.






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The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Hopkins or JHU, is a private
Private university

Private universities are not operated by governments though they may or may not receive funding . Depending on the region, private universities may be subject to government regulation....
 research university located in Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Baltimore is an independent city and the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland in the United States. Baltimore is located in central Maryland along the tidal portion of the Patapsco River, an arm of the Chesapeake Bay....
, Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
, United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. Johns Hopkins also maintains full-time campuses elsewhere in Maryland
Maryland

Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, and China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
. The undergraduate studies
Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States....
 program is ranked thirteenth among World Universities by U.S. News and World Report. Johns Hopkins has noted graduate programs in medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University....
, public health, music, and international studies
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , based in Washington, D.C., is one of the leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education....
. The university is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities
Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research university devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education....
.

The university is named after Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropy creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine....
, who left $7 million in his 1873 will for the foundation of the university and Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins....
. At the time, this was the largest philanthropic bequest in U.S. history
History of the United States

The first known inhabitants of modern-day United States territory are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000 - 50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into Alaska....
, the equivalent of over $131 million in the year 2006. 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."

Johns Hopkins is the first U.S. university to apply the German university model
History of European research universities

European research University have a long history that arguably dates back to the founding of the University of Bologna in 1088, although the University of Paris and the University of Magnaura are other contenders for this position....
 developed by Wilhelm von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt

Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Humboldt , government functionary, diplomat, philosopher, founder of Humboldt Universit?t in Berlin, friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and in particular of Friedrich Schiller, is especially remembered as a Linguistics who made important contributions to the philosophy of lang...
 and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher was a German theology and philosopher known for his impressive attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Age of Enlightenment with traditional Protestant orthodoxy....
. Johns Hopkins is the first U.S. university to teach through seminars, instead of solely through lectures, as well as the first university in the United States to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts
Liberal arts

The term liberal arts refers to the education derived from the Classical education curriculum....
 curriculum
Curriculum

In formal education, a curriculum is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of wiktionary:deed and experiences through which children grow and mature in becoming adults....
). As such, Johns Hopkins was a model for most large research universities in the United States, particularly the University of Chicago
University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood of Chicago. Although an older university by the same name existed prior to its founding, the modern University of Chicago credits its founding to the oil magnate John D....
. According to the National Science Foundation ranking, Johns Hopkins performed $1.55 billion in science, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2007. NSF ranked the university first among 20 U.S. academic institutions in total Research & Development spending for the 29th year in a row.

History

The university's first president was Daniel Coit Gilman
Daniel Coit Gilman

Daniel Coit Gilman was an American academic administrator and educator....
. Its motto in Latin is Veritas vos liberabit – "The truth shall make you free." While women had previously been admitted to graduate programs, the undergraduate program admitted only men up until 1970. Admission of women to Johns Hopkins undergraduate programs was not considered until the late 1960s. The decision to admit females was announced in October 1969, and in the fall of 1970, women were finally admitted into the undergraduate programs. 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%. Currently, the undergraduate population is 47% female and 53% male.

Origin of the name

The peculiar first name of philanthropist Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins was a wealthy entrepreneur, philanthropist, and abolitionist of 19th century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropy creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine....
 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).

Milton Eisenhower, a president of JHU, was once invited to speak to a convention in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh is the second largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania with a population of 312,819. The population of the seven-county metropolitan area is 2,462,571....
. Making a common mistake, the Master of Ceremonies
Master of Ceremonies

A Master or Mistress of Ceremonies or MC , sometimes called a comp?re or an MJ for "microphone jockey," is the Host of an official public or private staged event or other performance....
 introduced him as "President of John Hopkins." Eisenhower retorted that he was "glad to be here in Pittburgh."

In a commencement address to the undergraduate Class of 2001, university president William R. Brody
William R. Brody

William R. Brody is the current President of the Johns Hopkins University, a position which he has held since 1996. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008....
 had the following to say about the name:

In 1888, just 12 years after the university was founded, Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
 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'.


Campuses


Homewood campus

Baltimorehab
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
Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maryland was a delegate to the Continental Congress and later United States United States Senate for Maryland. He was the only Catholicism signer of the United States Declaration of Independence....
 and Homewood House, a wedding gift from Charles to his son Charles Jr.

The park-like main campus of Johns Hopkins, Homewood
Homewood campus

The Homewood campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland....
, is set on 140 acres (0.57 km²) in the northern part of Baltimore. The architecture was modeled after the Georgian
Georgian architecture

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking world to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four Monarchy of the United Kingdom of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United Kingdom, and George IV of the...
-inspired Federalist style
Federal architecture

File:FirstMeetingHouse.jpgFederal-style architecture occurred in the United States between 1780 and 1830, particularly from 1785 to 1815. The period is associated with the early Republic, and the establishment of the national institutions of the United States....
 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
Baltimore Museum of Art

The Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, was founded in 1914. It is located between the Charles Village, Baltimore and Remington, Baltimore neighborhoods, immediately adjacent to the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University, though the museum is an independent institution not affiliated with the University....
, 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
Nichols House (Maryland)

The Nichols House is a house located on the Homewood campus campus of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It is known as the President's House because, when designed, it was intended to become the residence of the university's president....
 and the Johns Hopkins Club
Johns Hopkins Club

The Johns Hopkins Club is a private club located on the grounds of The Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campus at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland....
, 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
Washington Monument

The Washington Monument is a large, tall, sand-colored obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. It is a United States Presidential Memorial constructed to commemorate the first U.S....
, 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 of Hopkins' museums.

In 1997, the university purchased the vacant 200,000 square foot former Eastern High School
Eastern High School (Baltimore, Maryland)

Eastern High School is a historic female high school located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a three story, "H"-shaped structure, with a main lateral section and four projecting wings....
, immediately across from Memorial Stadium
Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)

Memorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street. It stood on an oversized block also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue , 36th Street , and Ednor Road ....
 on East 33rd Street. It reopened in 2001 largely occupied by administrative offices.

The site, called Charles Commons and completed in September 2006, is located at 33rd Street between Charles and St. Paul Streets. The approximately 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 . 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 constitutes 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 includes 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 establishes a new public entrance for the campus and recognizes the potential for future growth of campus activities sited across Wyman Park Drive.

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.

In early December of 2008, the Trustees announced the creation of a new library named for the 13th president of the university costing $30 Million. The new structure will augment the existing library, a 185,000-square-foot facility built in 1964 and partially renovated in 1998 that will for the most part not change. The design firm for the project has not been selected, but university officials hope to complete the project by 2012.

  • Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
    Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

    The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is one of nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University, in the United States....
    : 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
    Whiting School of Engineering

    The G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is a highly regarded engineering school in the United States. It is located in the main Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore....
    : 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
    Johns Hopkins University School of Education

    The Johns Hopkins University School of Education is one of the nine academic divisions of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. The largest provider of master?s degrees in education throughout the state of Maryland, it is known for its emphasis on flexible learning formats that encourage individuals to remain employed in area s...
    : The School of Education was established in 2007, incorporating divisions of the former School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.


Medical Institutions campus

This urban campus is in East Baltimore 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
Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins....
 building and its trademark dome. The School of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University....
 is associated with clinical practice at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

  • School of Medicine
    Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University....
    : The School of Medicine is headquartered at the university's Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore with Johns Hopkins Hospital
    Johns Hopkins Hospital

    The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins....
    . The School of Medicine is widely regarded as one of the best medical schools and biomedical research institutes in the world.
  • School of Nursing
    Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

    Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, located in Baltimore, Maryland, is a highly regarded nursing school and research institute in the United States....
    : 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
    U.S. News & World Report

    U.S. News & World Report is an influential United States newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it was for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories....
    .


Downtown Baltimore


  • Carey Business School
    Carey Business School

    The Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School is one of the academic schools of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. It places a heavy emphasis on business education aimed at professionals in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, and offers several joint degrees with other Johns Hopkins schools, principally in the form of do...
    : The Carey Business School was established in 2007, incorporating divisions of the former School of Professional Studies in Business and Education.
  • Peabody Institute
    Peabody Institute

    The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a music school and University-preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon, Baltimore neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland at the corner of Maryland Route 139 and Monument Streets at Mount Vernon Place....
    : 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.


Washington D.C.


  • Johns Hopkins' Washington, DC campus located near Dupont Circle is home to the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
    Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

    The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies , based in Washington, D.C., is one of the leading and most prestigious graduate schools devoted to the study of international relations, economics, diplomacy, and policy research and education....
     and the part-time graduate program Advanced Academic Programs (AAP). SAIS is devoted to international studies, particularly international relations
    International relations

    International relations represents the study of foreign affairs and global issues among states within the international system, including the roles of states, international organization , non-governmental organizations , and multinational corporations ....
    , diplomacy
    Diplomacy

    Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups or states. It usually refers to international diplomacy, the conduct of international relations through the intercession of professional diplomats with regard to issues of peace-making, trade, war, economics and culture....
    , and economics
    Economics

    File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
    . (It is familiarly known as "SAIS", pronounced like the second syllable of     precise). SAIS has full-time international campuses in Bologna
    Bologna

    Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, in the Po Valley , between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, exactly between the Reno River and the S?vena River....
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     and Nanjing
    Nanjing

    is the capital city of China's Jiangsu province of China, and a city with a prominent place in Chinese history and Chinese culture. Nanjing served as the capital of China during several historical periods and is listed as one of the Historical capitals of China....
    , China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    . 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
    Master's degree

    A master's degree provides a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of profession. Within the area studied, graduates possess advanced knowledge of a specialized body of theory and applied topics; high order skills in analysis, Critical thinking and/or professional application; and the ability to problem solving a...
     program in international relations.
    The study's results also appeared in     Foreign Policy
    Foreign policy

    A state's foreign policy, also called the international relations policy, is a set of goals outlining how the country will interact with other countries economically, politically, socially and militarily, and to a lesser extent, how the country will interact with non-state actors....
     (Nov/Dec 2005). AAP offers graduate degrees in Applied Economics, Advanced Biotechnology Studies, Communication in Contemporary Society, Environmental Sciences and Policy, Government, Liberal Arts, Museum Studies, and Writing


Laurel, MD
  • Applied Physics Laboratory
    Applied Physics Laboratory

    The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , located in Laurel, Maryland, is a not-for-profit, University_Affiliated_Research_Center employing 4,150 people....
    : The university operates the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland
    Maryland

    Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic States of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia and the Washington, D.C. to the south and west, Pennsylvania to the north, and Delaware to the east....
    , which specializes in research for the U.S. Department of Defense
    United States Department of Defense

    The United States Department of Defense is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the Military of the United States....
    , NASA
    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
     and other Government agencies. The Space Telescope Science Institute
    Space Telescope Science Institute

    The Space Telescope Science Institute is the science operations center for the Hubble Space Telescope and for the James Webb Space Telescope ....
     is located on the Homewood campus and controls, analyzes, and collects data from the Hubble Space Telescope
    Hubble Space Telescope

    The Hubble Space Telescope is a Space observatory that was carried into Low Earth orbit STS-31 in April 1990. It is named after the American astronomer Edwin Hubble....
    .


Other Johns Hopkins Campuses
  • Bayview Medical Center
    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

    Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, formerly known as Francis Scott Key Medical Center and Baltimore City Hospital, is a hospital and medical office center in East Baltimore....
  • Bologna Center
  • Charles S. Singleton Center at the Villa Spelman
  • Columbia Center
  • Downtown Center in Baltimore
  • Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies
    Hopkins-Nanjing Center

    The Hopkins-Nanjing Center is a joint educational venture between Nanjing University and Johns Hopkins University that opened in Nanjing, China in 1986....
  • Johns Hopkins Singapore
  • Montgomery County Campus
  • Washington, D.C. Center


Sustainability

Johns Hopkins University has a significant and complex approach to implementing sustainability initiatives. As of May 2008, they include the following
  • Designing and implementing green roofs
  • Exploring the use of alternative sources of energy
  • Developing a transportation plan to reduce pollutants
  • Working on green building designs
  • Improving the efficiency of the way energy is used
  • Engaging students through education and competition
  • Managing storm water runoff
  • Maximizing the amount of organic and locally-sourced food


Johns Hopkins has students known as Eco-Reps on campus. The purpose of the ECO-Rep program is to increase environmental awareness and sustainable actions among Johns Hopkins freshmen through focused activities, the dissemination of information, and the promotion of competition. Up to 10 Freshmen will be selected each September to become ECO-Reps for the school year.

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. 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
Flexcar

Flexcar was a for-profit Carsharing company, the oldest and second-largest in the United States behind Boston-based Zipcar, which it merged with in late 2007....
, 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.

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.

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 principles as guidelines. 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.

Johns Hopkins students have historically been active in sustainability activities. Students have contributed significantly to many of our environmental successes, such as getting the JHU recycling program off the ground, hosting a national "Greening" conference, launching a transportation shuttle service between campuses, and making the campus more bike-friendly. Each year students are involved in countless activities that promote sustainability on Hopkins campuses. Some of the active groups on campus include Students for Environmental Action, Engineers for a Sustainable World, the Roosevelt Institution, Hopkins Energy Action Team and Engineers Without Borders among others.

The Johns Hopkins University, working with Collegetown Development Alliance, a joint venture team composed 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.

Organization and administration


Affiliates

  • The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies
    Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies

    The Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies is a leading public policy school affiliated to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland....
    , 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
    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....
     is a publishing house and division of the 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.
  • The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence was established in 2007 and focuses on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text, and document image data in multiple languages.


Academics


Johns Hopkins is a large, highly-residential, majority post-graduate research university. The full-time, four year undergraduate program is more selective with low transfer-in, has high graduate co-existence, and an arts, sciences, and professional emphasis. The graduate program is a comprehensive doctoral program with medical programs. Johns Hopkins offeres 49 undergraduate degrees

Student body

Johns Hopkins received 16,006 applications for the 2008–2009 school 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, 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
SAT

The SAT Reasoning Test is a standardized testing for college admissions in the Education in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a non-profit organization in the United States, and was once developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service ....
 reading was 660-760, math was 690-780, and writing was 670-760. 97% of freshman rematriculated after the first year, 84% of students graduated in 4 years and 91% graduated in 6 years.

Rankings


Comprehensively, the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University?s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , ?highly-cited researchers...
 ranked Johns Hopkins the 20th internationally (17th nationally), the The Times Higher Education Supplement
The Times Higher Education Supplement

The Times Higher Education , formerly The Times Higher Education Supplement , is a magazine based in London reporting specifically on news and other issues related to British higher education, largely the University, including former and current polytechnics....
 ranked JHU 9th nationally and 13th worldwide in 2008, 9th among research universities by the Center for Measuring University Performance in 2007.

At the undergraduate level, the Johns Hopkins University was ranked 15th among National Universities by U.S. News and World Report, 30th among national universities by the Washington Monthly, and 81st among all colleges by Forbes
Forbes

Forbes is an United States publishing and mass media company. Its flagship publication, Forbes magazine, is published bi-weekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune , which is also published bi-weekly, and Business Week....
. U.S. News and World Report ranks Johns Hopkins' undergraduate engineering program 14th among doctoral universities and the undergraduate business program is unranked.

The Johns Hopkins University's graduate programs in English,, History, Art History, Italian, French, Spanish, Classics, Cognitive Science, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy have also been ranked in the past several years amongst the top ten of their respective disciplines. The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) was ranked as the top master's program in international relations in a 2005 study.
The study's results also appeared in Foreign Policy
Foreign policy

A state's foreign policy, also called the international relations policy, is a set of goals outlining how the country will interact with other countries economically, politically, socially and militarily, and to a lesser extent, how the country will interact with non-state actors....
 (Nov/Dec 2005).

The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital is a teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins....
, which is affiliated with the university though legally a separate corporation, 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. For medical research, U.S. News ranked the School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is the academic medical teaching and research arm of Johns Hopkins University....
 second nationally and School of Public Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is part of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, United States It was the first institution of its kind in the world....
 first nationally for 2007, and U.S. News and World Report has also consistently ranked the school of public health #1 in the nation. U.S. News and World Report also ranked the School of Nursing 4th nationally among peer institutions in 2007. Newsweek named Johns Hopkins as the "Hottest School for Pre-meds" in 2008.

Library

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.

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library
Milton S. Eisenhower Library

The Milton S. Eisenhower Library , is the Johns Hopkins University principal research library and the largest in a network of libraries at Johns Hopkins....
 (called "MSE" by students), located on the Homewood campus
Homewood campus

The Homewood campus is the main academic and administrative center of the Johns Hopkins University. It is located at 3400 North Charles Street in Baltimore, Maryland....
, 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
Milton S. Eisenhower

Milton Stover Eisenhower served as president of three major United States University: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University....
, former president of the university and brother of former U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight David ?Ike? Eisenhower was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1953 until 1961 and a General of the Army in the United States Army....
.

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. In December 2008, it was announced that a new addition would be constructed directly to the south of the MSE library. The six-and-a-half-story expansion will be named the Brody Learning Commons in honor of University President William R. Brody
William R. Brody

William R. Brody is the current President of the Johns Hopkins University, a position which he has held since 1996. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008....
 and will function as a "collaborative learning space". It is scheduled to be completed by 2012.

Faculty and research

Johns Hopkins has a very 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. Johns Hopkins receives more dollars in federal research grants than any other university in the United States. Thirty-two (32) Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 winners have been affiliated with the university as alumni or present or former faculty members. 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, music, neuroscience, nursing, political theory, public health, public policy, and the Romance languages
Romance languages

The Romance languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages comprising all the languages that descend from Latin language, the language of ancient Rome....
.

Johns Hopkins is one of fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities
Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities is an organization of leading research university devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education....
 (AAU) and a member of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE).

The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.55 billion in science, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2006, making it the leading U.S. academic institution in total R&D spending for the 29th year in a row, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking. The university also ranked first on the NSF's separate list of federally funded research and development, spending $1.55 billion in FY2007 on research supported by such agencies as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the NSF and the Department of Defense. 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.

Student life

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
Charles Village, Baltimore

Charles Village is a neighborhood located in the north-central area of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a middle-class area with many single-family homes that is in proximity to many of Baltimore's urban amenities....
, 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
Barnes & Noble

Barnes & Noble, Inc. is the largest book retailing in the United States, operating mainly through its Barnes & Noble Booksellers chain of bookstores headquartered in lower Fifth Avenue in Manhattan....
 and a Starbucks
Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and List of coffeehouse chains based in Seattle, Washington, United States. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 16,120 stores in 44 countries....
. A Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle Mexican Grill

Chipotle Mexican Grill is a chain of restaurants specializing in San Francisco burritos and tacos. Founded by Steve Ells in 1993 and based in Denver, Colorado, the restaurant is known for its chunky guacamole, large burritos, and assembly line production....
 and Starbucks have moved in, and the university itself has installed a new Einstein Bros. Bagels
Einstein Bros. Bagels

Einstein Bros. Bagels is a bagel and coffee chain in the United States. As of 2006, there are 424 restaurants with the Einstein Bros. name.Einstein Bros originated from Boston Chicken or Boston Market....
 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
Sodexho

Sodexo is a French multinational corporation and one of the largest food services and facilities management companies in the world, with 355,000 employees, representing 130 nationalities, present on 30,600 sites in 80 countries....
 to Aramark
ARAMARK

Aramark Limited is a food, facility and apparel service partner to organizations across a range of sectors, including business and industry, judicial, education, health care, offshore and defense....
.

Hopkins has also advertised the "Collegetown" atmosphere it shares with neighboring institutions, including Loyola College
Loyola College in Maryland

Loyola College in Maryland, to be renamed as Loyola University Maryland on August 15, 2009, pending approval by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, is a Roman Catholic Church, Society of Jesus private university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States....
, UMBC, Goucher College
Goucher College

Goucher College is a private, co-educational, Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson, Maryland in unincorporated Baltimore County, Maryland, on a 287 acre campus....
, and Towson University
Towson University

Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an United States of America public university located in Towson, Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland, Maryland, USA....
, as well as the proximity of downtown Baltimore's Inner Harbor
Inner Harbor

The Inner Harbor is a historic seaport, tourist attraction, and iconic landmark of the City of Baltimore, Maryland. The harbor itself is actually the end of the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River and includes any water west of a line drawn between the National Aquarium in Baltimore and the Rusty Scupper restaurant....
.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender student organization, The Diverse Sexuality and Gender Alliance, affectionately called DSAGA, at Hopkins is well known. Annually DSAGA organizes and oversees the Awareness Days Program. This program is a series of events and speakers with the focus on LGBTA inclusivity and awareness.

Greek Life

The Johns Hopkins University Office of Greek Life currently supports eleven fraternities and eight sororities.

The fraternities include Sigma Chi
Sigma Chi

Sigma Chi is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, greek alphabet social fraternities and sororities and a secret society. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon....
, Sigma Phi Epsilon
Sigma Phi Epsilon

SF? , commonly nicknamed SigEp, is a secret letter, social college Fraternities and sororities for male college students in the United States....
, Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama. SAE is the largest social college fraternity by total initiates with more than 288,000 initiated members....
, Beta Theta Pi
Beta Theta Pi

Beta Theta Pi is a social collegiate fraternities and sororities that was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi....
, Alpha Delta Phi
Alpha Delta Phi

Alpha Delta Phi is the fourth oldest Greek-letter fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada. Today the name refers to both an all-male fraternity that was founded in 1832 by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, Oneida County, New York, New York and the Alpha Delta Phi Society, which broke off from the fraternity in...
, Pi Kappa Alpha
Pi Kappa Alpha

Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international, secret, social, Greek alphabet, college fraternities and sororities. It was founded at 47 West The Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868....
, Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Kappa Psi

Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity is an American Fraternities and sororities....
, Phi Gamma Delta
Phi Gamma Delta

Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social Fraternities and sororities with 107 chapters and 7 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania in 1848 and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA....
, Phi Delta Theta
Phi Delta Theta

Phi Delta Theta is an international Fraternities and sororities founded in 1848 and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad....
, Lambda Phi Epsilon
Lambda Phi Epsilon

?F? is a North-American Interfraternity Conference Asian-interest fraternity based in the United States. Lambda Phi Epsilon's goals include servicing the community through various philanthropies, increasing Asian awareness, promoting academic scholarship, and strengthening the Asian American voice on campus....
, which is historically Asian-American, and Alpha Epsilon Pi
Alpha Epsilon Pi

Alpha Epsilon Pi is the only international Jewish college fraternities and sororities in North America, with 140 chapters in the United States and Canada, and over 7,000 active undergraduates....
, which is historically Jewish. These eleven are supported by the Inter-Fraternity Council. Alpha Phi Alpha
Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate Fraternities and sororities established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940....
 Fraternity, which is historically African-American, is supported by the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Iota Nu Delta
Iota Nu Delta

Iota Nu Delta , is a South Asian interest Fraternities and sororities geared towards men of all descents. It was founded on February 7, 1994, by a group of eight men of South Asian descent at Binghamton University, in Binghamton, New York....
 Fraternity is historically South Asian and is the newest Greek Letter Organization on campus. Delta Phi
Delta Phi

Delta Phi is a fraternities and sororities founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Founded as part of the Union Triad, along with the Kappa Alpha Society and Sigma Phi, Delta Phi was the third and last member of the Triad....
 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. In fall of 2008 a group of male undergraduates announced plans to form a colony of Phi Delta Theta
Phi Delta Theta

Phi Delta Theta is an international Fraternities and sororities founded in 1848 and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad....
 Fraternity. They successfully petitioned with headquarters to form a colony and became an official colony of the fraternity on February 13th, 2009 with 38 Founding Fathers. The Maryland Delta Colony of Phi Delta Theta plans on becoming a full chapter during the Fall 2009 semester.

The sororities include Kappa Kappa Gamma
Kappa Kappa Gamma

Kappa Kappa Gamma is a college Fraternities and sororities, founded at Monmouth College, Illinois. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted on October 13, 1870 as Founders Day, because no earlier charter date could be determined....
, Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Alpha Theta

Kappa Alpha Theta is an international women's fraternities and sororities founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's fraternity....
, Alpha Phi
Alpha Phi

Alpha Phi is a fraternities and sororities for women founded at Syracuse University on September 18, 1872. Its celebrated Founder's Day is October 10....
 and Phi Mu
Phi Mu

Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternities and sororities established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia....
, which are supported by the Panhellenic Council. The sororities also include Delta Xi Phi
Delta Xi Phi

Delta Xi Phi is a national multicultural Sorority that was founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by 15 women on April 20, 1994....
, a multicultural sorority, Lambda Pi Chi
Lambda Pi Chi

Lambda Pi Chi Sorority is a USA-based Latino based Greek alphabet intercollegiate fraternities and sororities founded on April 16, 1988 at Cornell University....
, a historically Latin-American sorority, and two historically Asian-American sororities, alpha Kappa Delta Phi
Alpha Kappa Delta Phi

alpha Kappa Delta Phi is the largest Asian-American interest sorority. It was founded at the University of California, Berkeley in the Fall of 1989....
 and Sigma Omicron Pi
Sigma Omicron Pi

The sisterhood of S?? was founded in 1930 to further the awareness of women in Asian culture. As strong women participating in various social, academic, and community activities, S?? maintain the objectives of unity, friendship, leadership, and community service established over 70 years ago....
.

As of Spring 2008, 1,080 students were members of one of the Johns Hopkins University fraternities or sororities and the All-Greek Average GPA was 3.22, the same as the average GPA for all Johns Hopkins University Undergraduates. Approximately 1/5 of male undergraduates and 1/5 of female undergraduates belong to the Greek system.

Many of the fraternities maintain houses off campus, but none of the the sororities do. 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. Snopes.com reports that such laws do not exist. Officially, though, only Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity owns their house.

Recruitment for fraternities and sororities takes place during the spring semester for freshmen, though some chapters recruit upperclassmen during the fall semester. All students who wish to participate in Recruitment must have completed one semester at Johns Hopkins University or elsewhere and must be in good academic standing.

Student publications

Hopkins has many publications that are produced entirely by students. The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

The Johns Hopkins News-Letter is the independent student newspaper of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Published since 1896, it is one of the nation's oldest continuously published, weekly student-run college newspapers....
, founded in 1896, is the oldest continuously published weekly college newspaper in the nation. The Hopkins Donkey is a political newspaper with a Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party . It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world....
 perspective on international, national and state-wide political topics. The Carrollton Record is a political newspaper with an American conservative
American conservatism

Conservatism in the United States is a major United States political ideology. In contemporary American politics, it is often associated with the Republican Party ....
 perspective on campus and city-wide politics. 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.

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.

Johns Hopkins is on the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is a non-profit group founded in 1999 and focused on civil liberties in academia in the United States....
's (FIRE) "red alert" list for suspending eighteen-year-old junior Justin Park for posting an offensive Halloween party invitation on the popular social networking site Facebook.com. His penalty was later reduced.

Athletics

Athletic teams at Johns Hopkins are called the Blue Jays. The university's athletic colors are Columbia blue
Columbia blue

Columbia blue is a light blue tertiary color. The typical Columbia blue is defined by Pantone as Columbia Blue 3 ....
 and black. (Sable and gold are used for academic robes.) Hopkins celebrates Homecoming
Homecoming

Homecoming, welcoming back of former residents and alumni, is a tradition in many university, colleges and high schools in North America. It usually includes activities for students and alumni, such as sports and culture events and a parade through the streets of the city or town....
 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 National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
 Division III
Division III

Division III is a division of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of the United States....
 and the Centennial Conference
Centennial Conference

The Centennial Conference is an athletic conference which competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division III. Member teams are located in Maryland and Pennsylvania....
.

Men's lacrosse

The school's most prominent team is its Division I men's lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
 team. The team is an independent and does not belomg to a conference. The team enjoys a winning tradition and has won 44 national titles - nine National Collegiate Athletic Association
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
 (NCAA
National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a voluntary association of about 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and University in the United States ....
)Division I (2007, 2005, 1987, 1985, 1984, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1974), 29 United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association
United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association

The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association is an association of university with varsity College athletics College lacrosse programs in all three National Collegiate Athletic Association divisions, founded in 1885....
 (USILA
United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association

The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association is an association of university with varsity College athletics College lacrosse programs in all three National Collegiate Athletic Association divisions, founded in 1885....
), and six Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (ILA) titles. Hopkins' primary national lacrosse
Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport originated by several tribes of Native Americans in the United States. There are four distinct versions of the modern game: men's field lacrosse, women's field lacrosse, men's box lacrosse and intercrosse ....
 rivals are Princeton University
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
, Syracuse University
Syracuse University

Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, New York. It was founded as a university in 1870, but its roots can be traced back to a seminary founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832 which eventually became Genesee College....
, and the University of Virginia
University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public university research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Conceived by 1800 and established in 1819, it is the only university in the United States to be designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, an honor it shares with nearby Monticello....
; its primary intrastate rivals are Loyola College
Loyola College in Maryland

Loyola College in Maryland, to be renamed as Loyola University Maryland on August 15, 2009, pending approval by the Maryland Higher Education Commission, is a Roman Catholic Church, Society of Jesus private university located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States....
, Towson University
Towson University

Towson University, often referred to as TU or simply Towson for short, is an United States of America public university located in Towson, Maryland in Baltimore County, Maryland, Maryland, USA....
, the United States Naval Academy
United States Naval Academy

The United States Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, United States, that educates and commissions officers of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps....
, and the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a public research university located in the city of College Park, Maryland in Prince George's County, Maryland outside Washington, D.C....
. 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

The school's Division I women's lacrosse team is a member of the American Lacrosse Conference
American Lacrosse Conference

The American Lacrosse Conference, also known as the ALC, is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women's lacrosse-only college athletic conference whose members are located in the Midwest, East Coast, and increasingly the Southeastern states from Illinois to Maryland....
 (ALC). The team is developing into a top twenty calibre 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 14 in the ILWDIMP, in 2005, they were 11, and, in 2004, they were 9.

Other teams

Hopkins also has several notable Division III Athletic teams. 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
Fencing

Fencing is a family of sports and activities that feature armed combat involving cutting, stabbing, or slapping Club ing weapons that are directly manipulated by hand, rather than shot, thrown or positioned....
 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
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public university research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, North Carolina, United States....
, a Division I team. In 2008 they defeated UNC by one bout, winning the MACFA championship. The Swimming
Swimming

Swimming is the movement by humans or animals through water, usually without artificial assistance. Swimming is an activity that can be both useful and recreational....
 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
McDaniel College

McDaniel College is a four-year Liberal arts colleges in the United States in Westminster, Maryland, located 30 miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland....
 (formerly Western Maryland College), playing the Green Terrors 83 times in football since the first game in 1894. In 2008, the Hopkins Blue Jays Baseball team played, and lost, in the final of the Division III College World Series.

Lacrosse museum and hall of fame

The Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame
Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame

The US Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame, located in Baltimore, Maryland on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, is operated by US Lacrosse....
, maintained by US Lacrosse
US Lacrosse

US Lacrosse is the Sport governing body of men and women's lacrosse in the United States. The US Lacrosse national headquarters is located in Baltimore, Maryland along with the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame....
, is located on the Homewood campus and is adjacent to the home field for both the men's and women's lacrosse teams, Homewood Field
Homewood Field

Homewood Field on the campus of the Johns Hopkins University,in Baltimore, Maryland, was built in 1906 and has a capacity of 8,500 people.The name is taken,as is that of the entire campus, from that of the estate of Charles Carroll of Carrollton It is the home field for the school's American football, soccer, field hockey and lacrosse teams....
. In the past, Johns Hopkins lacrosse teams have represented the United States
United States

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 in international competition. At the 1928 Summer Olympics
1928 Summer Olympics

The 1928 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1928 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands....
 in Amsterdam and 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics lacrosse demonstration events
Lacrosse at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Teams from Canada at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the United States at the 1932 Summer Olympics played three games, with the team from the United States winning the series 2 games to 1....
 Hopkins represented the US and team members received Olympic Gold Medals. This was the only such accolade in the history of U.S. college sports. They have also gone to Melbourne
Melbourne

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, Australia
Australia

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 to win the 1974 World Lacrosse Championship
World Lacrosse Championship

The World Lacrosse Championship is the world championship for international men's field lacrosse. From its inception in 1967 through the 2006 event, it was sanctioned by the International Lacrosse Federation ....
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Presidents of Johns Hopkins


  • Daniel Coit Gilman
    Daniel Coit Gilman

    Daniel Coit Gilman was an American academic administrator and educator....
    , May 1875 - August 1901
  • Ira Remsen
    Ira Remsen

    Ira Remsen was a chemistry who, along with Constantin Fahlberg discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University....
    , September 1901 - January 1913
  • Frank Goodnow, October 1914 - June 1929
  • Joseph Sweetman Ames
    Joseph Sweetman Ames

    Joseph Sweetman Ames was a physics professor at Johns Hopkins University, provost of the university from 1926 until 1929, and university president from 1929 until 1935....
    , July 1929 - June 1935
  • Isaiah Bowman
    Isaiah Bowman

    Isaiah Bowman, AB, Ph. D. was an United States geographer. He was educated at Harvard University and Yale University where he taught from 1905 to 1915, after which time he became the director of the American Geographical Society, a position he held for 20 years from 1915 to 1935....
    , July 1935 - December 1948
  • Detlev Bronk
    Detlev Bronk

    Detlev Wulf Bronk was President of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1949 to 1953 and President of the United States National Academy of Sciences from 1950 to 1962....
    , January 1949 - August 1953
  • Lowell Reed
    Lowell Reed

    Lowell Reed was 7th president of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.He had a long career as a research scientist in biostatistics and public health administration at Hopkins, where he was previously dean and director of the Bloomberg School of Public Health and later as vice president in charge of medical activities....
    , September 1953 - June 1956
  • Milton S. Eisenhower
    Milton S. Eisenhower

    Milton Stover Eisenhower served as president of three major United States University: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University....
    , July 1956 - June 1967
  • Lincoln Gordon
    Lincoln Gordon

    Abraham Lincoln Gordon was a United States Ambassador to Brazil and the 9th President of the Johns Hopkins University. He was born in New York City....
    , July 1967 - March 1971
  • Milton S. Eisenhower
    Milton S. Eisenhower

    Milton Stover Eisenhower served as president of three major United States University: Kansas State University, the Pennsylvania State University, and the Johns Hopkins University....
    , March 1971 - January 1972
  • Steven Muller
    Steven Muller

    Steven Muller was the president of the Johns Hopkins University, serving from 1972 to 1990.While serving as Vice President for Public Affairs of Cornell University, Muller played a leading role in negotiating the end to the occupation of Willard Straight Hall by African American students on April 20, 1969....
    , February 1972 - June 1990
  • William C. Richardson
    William C. Richardson

    William C. Richardson was President of The Johns Hopkins University from July 1990 - July 1995. Prior to moving to Johns Hopkins, he was executive vice president and provost at The Pennsylvania State University....
    , July 1990 - July 1995
  • Daniel Nathans
    Daniel Nathans

    Daniel Nathans was an American microbiologist.He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, Delaware, the last of nine children born to Russian Jewish immigrant parents....
    , June 1995 - August 1996
  • William R. Brody
    William R. Brody

    William R. Brody is the current President of the Johns Hopkins University, a position which he has held since 1996. On March 10, 2008, he announced his intent to step down as president effective December 31, 2008....
    , August 1996 - February 2009


Effective March 1, 2009, Ronald J. Daniels
Ronald J. Daniels

Ronald J. Daniels is President of the Johns Hopkins University, a position which he assumed on March 2nd, 2009. Previously, Daniels was the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania.Daniels received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Toronto, and his Master of Laws degree from Yale University....
 will assume the presidency of Hopkins. Daniels was formerly the provost of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

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.

Notable alumni, professors, and staff


The university in popular culture


In non-fiction

  • The HBO film Something the Lord Made
    Something the Lord Made

    Something The Lord Made is a biopic about the legendary black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the world famous "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery....
     (2004), based on the true story of Alfred Blalock
    Alfred Blalock

    Alfred Blalock was a 20th-century United States surgeon in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of Shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot?known commonly as the blue baby syndrome?with Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologis...
     and Vivien Thomas
    Vivien Thomas

    Vivien Theodore Thomas was an African-American surgical technician and operative surgeon who helped develop the procedures used to treat blue baby syndrome in the 1940s....
     (an unusual team for the time), depicts their work as pioneers of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Hopkins Lax
* Johns Hopkins University
Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Hopkins or JHU, is a private university research university located in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, United States....
 hospital is the focus of 'Hopkins', an ABC News' six-part series which takes an intimate look at the men and women who call The Johns Hopkins Hospital their home. Began June 26, 2008.

In fiction

  • In the Tom Clancy
    Tom Clancy

    Thomas Leo Clancy Jr. is an United States author, best known for his technically detailed espionage and military science storylines set during and in the aftermath of the Cold War....
     novels, Jack Ryan
    Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy)

    Jack Ryan is a fictional character created by Tom Clancy who appears in many of his novels. The novels and film adaptations in which the character appears are collectively referred to as the "Ryanverse"....
    '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 Babylon 5
    Babylon 5

    Babylon 5 is an United States science fiction on television created, produced and largely written by J. Michael Straczynski. The show centers on the Babylon 5 space station: a focal point for politics, diplomacy, and conflict in the late 2250s and early 2260s....
     universe, JHU was where the gene for human telepathy
    Telepathy

    Telepathy describes the purported transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the Senses#Five classical senses ....
     was discovered.
  • Dr. Hanibal Lecter from the Lecter Trilogy by Thomas Harris attends the Johns Hopkins University after leaving Europe for America.
  • In the 1990 novel Jurassic Park
    Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. Often considered a cautionary tale on unconsidered biological tinkering in the same spirit as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, it uses the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its philosophical implications to explain the collapse of an amusement park showcasin...
     by Michael Crichton
    Michael Crichton

    John Michael Crichton, Doctor of Medicine , was an United States author, film producer, film director, and physician, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and techno-thriller genres....
    , Dr. Lewis Dodgson
    List of characters in Jurassic Park

    The following is a list of characters from Michael Crichton's novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World . Details are also given on the characters' roles in Steven Spielberg's film adaptations, Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, as well as Jurassic Park III, directed by Joe Johnston....
     of Biosyn Corporation is said to have been expelled
    Expulsion (academia)

    Expulsion at a school or university is defined as removing a student from the institution for violating rules or honor codes....
     from Johns Hopkins as a graduate student
    Graduate school

    A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees, such as Doctorate with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous Undergraduate education degree....
     for planning human gene therapy
    Gene therapy

    Gene therapy is the insertion of genes into an individual's cell and Biological tissues to treat a disease, such as a hereditary disease in which a deleterious mutant allele is replaced with a functional one....
     without permission from the Food and Drug Administration
    Food and Drug Administration

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    .


In film

  • The Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Mary Kidman, Order of Australia is an Academy Award-winning Hawaiian-born Australian actress, fashion model, singer, United Nations Citizen of the World award-winning humanitarian, and a UNIFEM and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador....
     film     The Invasion (film)
    The Invasion (film)

    The Invasion is a 2007 in film science fiction film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The screenplay was written by Dave Kajganich, and it is the fourth film adaptation of the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, following the 1956 in film film Invasion of the Body Snatchers directed by Don Siegel, the 1978 remake...
     (2007) was partly filmed in a laboratory in Mudd Hall on the Homewood campus.
  • The film The Curve (1998) was filmed at the Homewood campus of the Johns Hopkins University.
  • The HBO film Something the Lord Made
    Something the Lord Made

    Something The Lord Made is a biopic about the legendary black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock, the world famous "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery....
     (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.
  • In the Will Ferrell
    Will Ferrell

    'John William' "'Will'" 'Ferrell' is an United States comedian, actor, voice actor, and writer who first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a successful film career, starring in the comedies A Night at the Roxbury , Old School , Elf , Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bur...
     comedy     Step Brothers
    Step Brothers (film)

    Step Brothers is a 2008 in film slapstick buddy film-comedy film directed by Adam McKay, produced by Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller, and stars Will Ferrell and John C....
     (2008), Ferrell's character learns that his new stepfather attended Johns Hopkins. Perhaps in an attempt to disparage the man, Ferrell then claims to know "Johnny Hopkins" personally, stating: "[I] smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins."
  • In the movie The Prince and Me
    The Prince and Me

    The Prince and Me is a 2004 motion picture, directed by Martha Coolidge, and starring Julia Stiles, Luke Mably, and Ben Miller, with Miranda Richardson, James Fox, and Alberta Watson....
    , the character Paige Morgan is accepted into the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the movie The Rock
    The Rock (film)

    The Rock is a 1996 in film Academy Awards-nominated action film that primarily takes place on Alcatraz Island, and the San Francisco Bay area....
     (1995), Dr. Stanley Goodspeed receives his M.A. and Ph. D from Johns Hopkins.
  • In the science fiction movie The Island
    The Island (2005 film)

    The Island is a 2005 in film science fiction film directed by Michael Bay and starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson. It is described as a pastiche of "escape-from-dystopia" science fiction films produced in the late 1960s and 1970s such as Fahrenheit 451, THX 1138, Parts: The Clonus Horror, and Logan's Run ....
     (2005), the retinal scans of Lincoln Six Echo are sent to Johns Hopkins for analysis.
  • In the movie "Outbreak
    Outbreak (film)

    Outbreak is a suspense film starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Spacey. The film was directed by Wolfgang Petersen....
    " (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 movie Casper, a 1995 film, Dr. Harvey is shown to be an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins University.
  • In the movie Species II
    Species II

    Species II is a 1998 in film sequel to the 1995 film Species . It stars Natasha Henstridge, Michael Madsen, and Marg Helgenberger, who reprise their roles....
     (1998) Senator Ross offers to take his son Patrick to Johns Hopkins after the latter was infected with alien DNA.
For a number of other affiliated fictional characters, see List of Johns Hopkins University people#Fictional associations
List of Johns Hopkins University people

Notable alumni...
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On television

  • In the television series The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
    , Dr. Julius Hibbert
    Julius Hibbert

    Julius M. Hibbert, M.D., is a recurring character on the Animated cartoon The Simpsons. He is voiced by Harry Shearer, and first appeared in the episode "Bart the Daredevil"....
     is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the television series Scrubs, Dr. Perry Cox is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
  • In the television series House
    House (TV series)

    House, also known as House, M.D., is an American medical drama that debuted on the Fox Broadcasting Company network on November 16, 2004....
    , the character Dr. Eric Foreman is a graduate of the 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 television series Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
    , the character Dr. Preston Burke is a graduate of the 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 television series The Twilight Zone
    The Twilight Zone

    The Twilight Zone is an United States television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror fiction, often concluding with a macabre or Twist ending....
     (Season 1 Episode 12), the character Andrew L. Gaddis graduates from the Johns Hopkins University, claiming to have done so "without any real difficulty".
  • In the television series NCIS (TV series)
    NCIS (TV series)

    NCIS , aka Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service or NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the United Stat...
    , 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 "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 television series Judging Amy
    Judging Amy

    Judging Amy is an United States television program drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show stars Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly ....
    , the character Kyle McCarty had attended Johns Hopkins medical school before being expelled.
  • In the television series South Park
    South Park

    South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
     episode "Britney's New Look
    Britney's New Look

    "Britney's New Look" is the second episode of the List of South Park Episodes#2008: Season 12 of the animated series South Park. It was first aired on March 19, 2008....
    ," Butters, mistaken for a talking squirrel, is taken to Johns Hopkins for evaluation.
  • In the television series Gilmore Girls
    Gilmore Girls

    Gilmore Girls is a Creative Arts Emmy Award-winning, Golden Globe-nominated, Television in the United States comedy-drama television program created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel....
    , Paris Geller applies to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Doctor that takes care of Logan Huntzberger is a Johns Hopkins Graduate.
  • In the season two finale of Nip/Tuck
    Nip/Tuck

    Nip/Tuck is an United States Emmy Award- and Golden Globe Award-winning television series medical drama series created by Ryan Murphy for FX Networks....
     (2003), Christian Troy and Sean McNamara visit Johns Hopkins to find out more about Ava Moore.
  • In the American television show Commander in Chief
    Commander in Chief (TV series)

    Commander in Chief was an United States drama television series that focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen , the first female President of the United States, who ascended to the role after the previous chief executive, Teddy Bridges , died in office from a sudden cerebral aneurysm....
    , 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
    Stargate Atlantis

    Stargate Atlantis is an United States-Canada science fiction television program, part of the Stargate owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Developed by producers Brad Wright and Robert C....
    , 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 "John" Hopkins.
  • On the HBO drama The Wire
    The Wire (TV series)

    The Wire is an United States television drama series set in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, where it was also produced. Created, Executive producer#Television, and primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon, the series was broadcast by the premium television cable television HBO in the United States....
    , Baltimore Police Major Howard Colvin looks into a retirement job as deputy director of campus security for JHU.


Photographs


See also

  • Mid-InfraRed Technologies for Health and the Environment
    Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment

    Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment is an Engineering Research Center funded by the National Science Foundation. It was launched on May 1st, 2006 as part of NSF's larger program of ERCs....
     (MIRTHE) (largely based at Princeton University)


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