Posts from 2018

This past spring, the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget had little good news for the nation’s biomedical research enterprise. Prominent among areas targeted for deep cuts, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) faced...

Dear Members of the Johns Hopkins Community: When we gather with family or friends to celebrate Thanksgiving later this week, many of us will begin the holiday meal by expressing our gratitude for the blessings we have received. Today, we are...

Rising to the Challenge Campaign CloseRalph O’Connor Recreation CenterJohns Hopkins University Thank you, Jeff, and Dave, for your extraordinary leadership and friendship and your support for the milestone we mark tonight as for so...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: Earlier today, we were thrilled to join members of the Henrietta Lacks family in announcing the Johns Hopkins University’s plans to construct and name a new building on the medical campus in East Baltimore...

Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff: Over the last several years we have been working together to make our university a more equitable place to learn, work, and live—one that is free from discrimination and harassment and fully inclusive...

Remarks for President Ronald J. DanielsReinventing Our Communities: Investing In OpportunityAs prepared Thank you, Mayor Pugh. Welcome to our distinguished guests, our colleagues and leaders from civic and community organizations...

Ronald J. Daniels is the president of Johns Hopkins University. This op-ed is adapted from a letter to Hopkins students. Last fall, on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, where I serve as president, I happened to overhear a conversation...

Dear Students, When I first came to Johns Hopkins, Ralph O'Connor, a sage trustee and namesake of the O'Connor Recreation Center, gave me some good advice: "Don't just sit in your office and get stuck behind that desk. Get out and walk the campus....

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff: In our home, Labor Day weekend has always been suffused with ritual. When our children were young, Joanne and I scurried to get them ready for school. The frenzied rush to the mall to purchase clothing and school...

Remarks by President Ronald J. DanielsJohns Hopkins UniversityConvocationRalph O’Connor Recreation CenterAs prepared Thank you, Vice Provost Phillips. Thanks, Noh for your welcome and to Archipelago Project, the Sirens and the AllNighters...