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Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, This summer, I was touched by two acts of kindness by Johns Hopkins employees – not as a president, but as a father and spouse. Let me explain. In the first instance, my daughter, Ally, was driving around campus...

Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: From its earliest days, Johns Hopkins has been a place of remarkable, organic collaboration. The driving vision of our scholars and the commitment of our staff historically have lifted our work above and...

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, On Saturday, before the region began feeling the effects of Hurricane Sandy, nearly 1,000 of you turned out for the President’s Day of Service, across Baltimore and beyond. Together, we planted trees and...

Dear members of the Johns Hopkins and Homewood communities, Three years ago, in my first address to The Johns Hopkins University community, I spoke of a great university that is not only at Baltimore or in Baltimore, but truly and proudly of...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, Two weeks ago, my wife, Joanne, and I officially became empty nesters after dropping our fourth child off for her first year of college. In the weeks prior, my daughter packed up her room, embarked on countless...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, As I grew up in Toronto, every year, the final weeks of August were marked by the Canadian National Exhibition, a three-week extravaganza of rides, shows and tooth-decaying delights that ended on Labour Day...

Dear Faculty and Staff Members and Students: Johns Hopkins is not just in Baltimore, but also proudly from Baltimore and fiercely devoted to the city’s health and success. You demonstrate that devotion every day. You demonstrate it in the...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, Last month, we marked the passing of Baltimore’s former mayor, William Donald Schaefer. Time and again, those memorializing his life noted his gut-level belief in this city, his tireless vision of a Baltimore...

To the Johns Hopkins community, As we, across the Johns Hopkins community, watched the devastation unleashed by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northern Japan last week, our hearts went out to the Japanese people and all those affected...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, Two years ago today, I joined the Johns Hopkins community as your president. While the precise date may be memorable to only a small handful of people — most of them related to me by blood or marriage — it was...