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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...

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: This past spring, I was pleased to receive a thoughtful and considered report from a multi-constituency task force convened to address how the university could enhance its contributions to the promotion...

Dear Staff and Faculty Members: Baltimore’s public schools, which are so critical to the future of our city, are embarked on an exciting time of enhanced academic achievement and service to our children. You can help. And Johns Hopkins wants...

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff, I write to you today on my first official day as a member of this wonderful community. Yesterday, in a striking reversal of what is now the time-honored odyssey of so many American youth, my teenage children...