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Dear Faculty, Students, and Staff: The start of the new academic year is a time of rejuvenation, and I enter every fall semester with the thrill of possibility. This year was no different. In fact, I saw that possibility in full flower late last...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: Over the past several months, we have watched with growing concern the change in tenor of the national dialogue regarding the role of universities in supporting the open international exchange of ideas and people...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community: I am delighted to inform you that late yesterday the university’s trustees approved the acquisition of the Newseum building located on Pennsylvania Avenue in the heart of the nation’s capital. This award-winning...

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...

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...

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...

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff: Yesterday the Trump administration announced its decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program and remitted to Congress the task of crafting a legislative response...

Dear Johns Hopkins Community, Last Friday I watched and read the news of President Trump’s executive order on immigration as it unfolded not only in the media, at airports, and on city streets, but also in the emails, questions, and urgent...