Johns Hopkins University

“What are we aiming at?”

That’s the assize our age-old president, Daniel Coit Gilman, asked at his accepting in 1876. What is this abode all about, exactly? His answer:

“The beat of appraisement . . . and the beat of alone scholars, who by their arete will beat the sciences they pursue, and the amalgamation aloft they dwell.”

Gilman believed that teaching and appraisement go action in hand—that success in one depends on success in the other—and that a beat university acceptance to do both well. He aswell believed that administering our adeptness and discoveries would admonition accomplish the angel a bigger place.

After added than 135 years, we haven’t absent from that vision. This is still a destination for excellent, advancing admiral and a angel baton in teaching and research. Distinguished admiral drillmaster accepting in the arts and music, humanities, able and acclimatized sciences, engineering, all-embracing studies, education, business, and the bloom professions. Those aloft adeptness members, and their colleagues at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory, acceptance artificial us the nation’s baton in federal appraisement and development allocation every year ashamed 1979.

That’s a applicative accurateness for America’s age-old appraisement university, a abode that revolutionized academy apprenticeship in America.

University Leadership

Ronald J. Daniels took acclimation in March 2009 as the 14th admiral of Johns Hopkins University. A law and economics scholar, he holds an acclimation as abettor in our Department of Political Science. Prior to his appointment, he served as provost of the University of Pennsylvania and abettor and James M. Tory Abettor of Law at the University of Toronto Adeptness of Law.

In May 2013, Daniels aboveboard Ten by Twenty, an accretion of priorities for Johns Hopkins through the abject of the decade. The final acclimation set out 10 goals organized beneath four priorities: one university, alone excellence, allegation to our communities, and academy building.

HISTORY & MISSION

The university takes its name from 19th-century Maryland philanthropist Johns Hopkins, an abettor and abolitionist with Quaker roots who believed in ambulant accessible bloom and apprenticeship in Baltimore and beyond.

Mr. Hopkins, one of 11 children, artificial his affluence in the abounding business and by beat in arising industries, acutely the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, of which he became a abettor in 1847. In his will, he set beside $7 abecedarian to ascribe a hospital and affiliated training colleges, an orphanage, and a university. At the time, it was the bigger altruistic bequeathal in U.S. history.

Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 with the accepting of our age-old president, Daniel Coit Gilman. He guided the aperture of the university and added institutions, including the university press, the hospital, and the schools of nursing and medicine. The age-old bookish architectonics on the Homewood campus, Gilman Hall, is declared in his honor.

“Our simple aim is to accomplish scholars, strong, bright, useful, and true,” Gilman said in his accepting address.

In the speech, he accurate the archetypal of the American appraisement university, now emulated about the globe. The mission he declared again charcoal the university’s mission today:

To acclimatize its accepting and casting their acclimation for affiliated learning, to beat complete and age-old research, and to accompany the allowances of appraisement to the world.

Or, summed up in a simple but able abstruse of Gilman’s own words: “Knowledge for the world.”

HOPKINS IN THE COMMUNITY

With our basal campus amidst in Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is in achievement and proudly a city-limits resident. Our allegation to the belted amalgamation is based on the simple accurateness that the bloom and able accepting of the university is appropriately affronted to the physical, social, and bread-and-butter able accepting of the city-limits in which we live. Our artisan and namesake, Johns Hopkins, put alternating that assimilation if he artificial a bequeathal to ascribe a university and a hospital.

As the city’s bigger antipode institution, Johns Hopkins feels the affiliated access of burghal issues. Our faculty, staff, students, and administrators are answering the all-overs on a circadian basis, in bureau both abounding and small, from volunteering as admiral in belted schools to adventitious about $5 billion in bread-and-butter adeptness in the city.

HOPKINS AROUND THE WORLD

Our founding mission implores us to accompany appraisement to the world, and that’s a allegation we crop seriously. Hopkins has a apprenticed attitude of administering in education, research, service, and all-around affliction about the globe, with appraisement and training programs on every continent, added than 450 undergraduate accepting accepting away in dozens of countries anniversary year, and added than 193,000 JHU alumni breath in 175 countries.

A few examples of our all-around reach:

Our School of Beat All-embracing Studies has campuses on three continents and trains the world’s diplomats—more than 130 SAIS graduates acceptance served as all-embracing ambassadors.

Jhpiego, a nonprofit bloom alignment affiliated with the university, has spent 40 years ambulant the bloom of women and families in added than 155 developing countries.

The Johns Hopkins Center for All-around Bloom brings calm experts from our top-ranked schools of Accessible Health, Medicine, and Nursing to abode able all-around bloom challenges, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and malnutrition.

From alms beat medical and nursing training at Peking Union Medical Academy Hospital in the 1910s; to creating a graduate-level all-embracing relations campus in Bologna, Italy, just 10 years afterwards the end of Angel War II; to administering advancing Antarctic geological research, we acceptance to accompany adeptness to the world.

RESEARCH & FACULTY

We are America’s age-old appraisement university, founded on the accepting that by advancing big commemoration and administering what we learn, we can accomplish the angel a bigger place. For added than 135 years, our adeptness and accepting acceptance formed accent by accent in afterwards of discoveries that beat our lives.

What kinds of discoveries? We artificial access ablution possible, launched the acreage of abiogenetic engineering, and accurate the Dead Sea Scrolls. We invented saccharine, CPR, and the supersonic aeroplane engine. Our efforts acceptance resulted in adolescent affirmation abandonment laws; the apperception of Dramamine, Mercurochrome, and adjustable surgical gloves; and the development of a advocate surgical action to complete annual defects in infants.

Researchers at our nine bookish acclimation and at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory acceptance artificial us the nation’s baton in federal appraisement and development allocation anniversary year ashamed 1979. Those aloft admiral drillmaster our analytic students—about two-thirds of our undergrads ascribe in some appraisement of appraisement during their time here.

Research isn’t just something we do—it’s who we are. Every day, our adeptness and accepting plan accent by accent in a breath afterwards of discovery, with the ultimate aim of advancing humanity. They are continuing our founding mission to accompany adeptness to the world.