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Dear Johns Hopkins Community, This is an exciting moment for innovation and entrepreneurship at research universities, especially Johns Hopkins. Discovery and entrepreneurial endeavor are converging in unprecedented ways. Investigators...

Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students: Over the last year, the president, provost, and deans and directors of the university’s divisions have been working on an initiative designed to support the research and creative professional activities...

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff:, Student alcohol abuse – particularly “binge drinking” – has long stood as a critical challenge on college campuses, including our own. Its impacts are far-reaching, affecting not only the health...

Dear Faculty, Students and Staff, It has been more than two years since a universitywide committee began working on a comprehensive self-study of Johns Hopkins in preparation for its decennial reaccreditation evaluation. We are delighted...

Dear Members of the Johns Hopkins Community, More than 20 years ago, a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers participated in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an effort to assemble a photographic record of the night sky. The image data collected...

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...