Johns Hopkins University
The Johns Hopkins University is an elite institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland. The university opened 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." (first President Daniel Coit Gilman). It is named for Johns Hopkins, who left seven million dollars in his 1867 will for the foundation of The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Johns Hopkins was the first research university in the United States, founded on the model of German research institutions. As such, it was the first American university to offer an undergraduate major (as opposed to a purely liberal arts curriculum), and the first American university to grant doctoral degrees.
The university was designed from the start to marry scholarship and research, and graduate education has always been paramount. Students at Johns Hopkins are encouraged to pursue original research at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and nearly 80% of Johns Hopkins undergrads produce research by the time of graduation. The School of Medicine is highly revered, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health is renowned for contributions worldwide to preventive medicine and the health of large populations. The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, located in Washington D.C. is recognized as a world leader in international affairs, diplomacy and government studies. The university offers education internationally through centers in China, Singapore and Italy. Johns Hopkins receives more federal research grants than any other university, and operates the Applied Physics Laboratory which specializes in nuclear research for the Department of Defense. Johns Hopkins also offers superior undergraduate programs based at the Homewood campus in Baltimore: The Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering, which contribute to Johns Hopkins' reputation as one of the nation's most prestigious universities. Some of the many strong departments at Johns Hopkins are History, English, Political Science, Biology, German, Near Eastern Studies, Romance Languages, Art History, Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Film and Media Studies and Astronomy.
The school's sports teams are named the Blue Jays. They participate in the NCAA's Division III, and the Centennial Conference. The school's most prominent sports team is their Division I lacrosse team, which has won 42 national titles. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame is adjacent to the university.
Some well-known alumni:
- Spiro T. Agnew - Vice President of the United States
- Madeleine Albright - Secretary of State under Bill Clinton
- John Astin - actor, Gomez Adams on The Addams Family
- Russell Baker - author, Pulitzer Prize winner
- John Barth - novelist
- Michael Bloomberg - business man, mayor of New York City
- Rudy Boschwitz - Republican Senator from Minnesota
- Rachel Carson - enivormentalist, Silent Spring
- Wes Craven - film director
- Robert W. Fogel - economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1993
- Herbert Spencer Gasser - Nobel Prize in Physiology, 1944
- Paul Greengard - biophysicist, Nobel Prize in Medicine, 2000
- Rafael Hernandez Colon - Puerto Rican governor
- Alger Hiss - lawyer and accused spy
- Kweisi Mfume - president of the NAACP
- Merton H. Miller - economist, Nobel Prize in Economics, 1990
- Thomas Hunt Morgan - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1933
- Mike Muuss - author of ping
- Antonia Novello - United States Surgeon General '90-'93
- P. J. O'Rourke - political satirist and journalist
- Sir William Osler - physician
- Samuel J. Palmisano - IBM Chairman and CEO
- Matthew Polk - founder of Polk Audio
- Martin Rodbell - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1994
- Francis Peyton Rous - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1966
- Gertrude Stein - feminist, author
- Frederick Jackson Turner - historian
- Thorstein Veblen - economist, author The Theoory of the Leisure Class
- John B. Watson - psychologist
- George Hoyt Whipple - Nobel Prize winner in physiology or medicine
- Jody Williams - Latin American Studies, Nobel Prize in Peace, 1997
- Woodrow Wilson - President of the United States
Some well-known faculty:
- Christian B. Anfinsen - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1972
- John Astin - famed television actor, lecturer in the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars department
- James Mark Baldwin - philosopher
- Zbigniew Brzezinski - National Security Advisor '77-'81
- Benjamin Carson - pediatric neurosurgeon, author Gifted Hands
- Richard Threlkeld Cox - physicist, Cox's theorem
- Joseph Erlanger - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1944
- James Franck - Nobel Prize in Physics, 1925
- Francis Fukuyama - political economist, author The End of History
- Riccardo Giacconi - Nobel Prize in Physics
- G. Stanley Hall - pioneer in the field of psychology
- Steve H. Hanke - economist, Presidential advisor, Cato Institute senior fellow
- Haldan Keffer Hartline - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1967
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe - economist
- Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - classical scholar
- Simon Kuznets - physicist, Noble Prize
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer - physicist, Nobel Prize
- Daniel Nathans - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- Lars Onsager - chemist, Nobel Prize
- Robert G. Parr - theoretical chemist
- Ronald Paulson - English specialist
- Charles Peirce - logician
- Hamilton O. Smith - Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1978
- James Joseph Sylvester - mathematician
- Harold Clayton Urey - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1934