Welcome To Baltimore This is “Charm City” If you have an interest, you’ll find it here. Baltimore features ... • Bustling downtown featuring the Inner Harbor with its many spots for shopping, dining and socializing. • Historic sites including the Edgar Allen Poe House, Babe Ruth House, first frigate of the U.S. Navy, U.S.F. Constellation and Fort McHenry. • Numerous museums and galleries, including the Baltimore Museum of Art (located adjacent to the Homewood Campus) and the Walters Art Gallery, which houses collections from early Egypt to the 19th century. • A full range of theater options featuring everything from Broadway, opera and dance to small repertory and avant-garde productions in such venues as Center Stage, the Hippodrome Theater, the Lyric Opera House and the Theater Project. • Two of the finest professional sports venues - Oriole Park at Camden The ESPN Zone (above) in Baltimore was the first of its kind Yards and M&T Bank Stadium. Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Ori- and is located downtown, within five miles of Johns Hopkins. oles play in arguably the finest baseball facility in the world, while the Ravens won the 2001 Super Bowl and have helped revitalize the city’s football-starved fans in a short pe- riod of time. • An ideal location. Baltimore is lo- cated within easy driving distance of the major metropolises of Wash- ington, DC, Philadelphia and New York. These cities, plus the many pleasures of the Chesapeake Bay, the rolling hills of Western Mary- land for camping, hiking and skiing, and the Atlantic beaches of Mary- land and Delaware are all within a few hours’ drive. Pictured at right are the aquarium (far right) and the Babe Ruth Museum, which is a cornerstone of Camden Yards. 2005 Women’s Lacrosse • www.HopkinsSports.com 43 Johns Hopkins University 1795 History Academic Programs Johns Hopkins is born at The Johns Hopkins University was founded in 1876 as The academic program at Hopkins is extremely flexible. Whitehall, his family’s tobacco part of a $7 million bequest left by Baltimore merchant There are no University-wide core requirements in the plantation in Anne Arundel Johns Hopkins to establish a research university and teach- curriculum; undergraduate students are expected to put County, Maryland. ing hospital. It soon became the first modern university in together their own programs with the help of faculty advis- 1867 America: a graduate institution offering collegiate prepara- ers. Students in the School of Arts and Sciences can select Johns Hopkins incorporates both tion where knowledge would be assembled and created as from 37 departmental majors or any one of three interdis- his university and his hospital. well as taught. Today the school continues to reflect the ciplinary area majors (Humanities, Social and Behavioral ideals upon which the University was founded. Hopkins Sciences, or Natural Sciences). Engineering students choose 1873 from among 13 departmental majors and can select an Johns Hopkins dies in Baltimore. students learn, above all, how to think for themselves in an environment that fosters independence and creativity. accredited bachelor of science program or a bachelor of arts 1874 degree: University trustees write to The Homewood Campus Daniel Coit Gilman, president of Located just north of downtown Baltimore, the Homewood Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences: the University of California in Ber- campus combines the best of urban and suburban surround- Africana Studies keley, requesting that he consider Anthropology the presidency of Johns Hopkins. ings. The campus encompasses 140 acres of parks, lawns, Behavioral Biology Gilman travels to Baltimore and and gardens, bounded on all sides by residential areas of the meets with the trustees on De- city. The campus was originally the Homewood estate, built Biology Biophysics cember 29. He tells them that he for Charles Carroll, Jr., son of the signer of the Declaration Chemistry would create a major university of Independence. Today, the Homewood campus serves as devoted to research and scholar- Classics ship. The Trustees elect him presi- the University’s center for undergraduate studies, housing Cognitive Science dent the next day. both the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Earth and Planetary Sciences Engineering. East Asian Studies 1875 Economics Daniel Coit Gilman begins his term as the first president of The The Students English Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins is the nation’s smallest major research Environmental Earth Sciences university with 3,900 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate Film and Media Studies 1876 students. Students come from all 50 states and 30 foreign French The first lecture at the new uni- countries. Approximately 60% of the undergraduates are German versity is delivered on October 4. History The university is located on the men and 40% are women, while about 28% are minority students. History of Art west side of Howard Street near History of Science, Medicine & Technology Centre Street. Interdisciplinary The Faculty International Studies 1879 The Hopkins faculty is among the nation’s most distin- The university issues its first Italian Studies bachelor’s degree. guished - a lengthy roster of celebrated scientists, scholars, Latin American Studies authors, and engineers. The men and women engaged in Mathematics 1881 scholarship and research here achieve a balance between Natural Sciences Alexander Graham Bell lectures that work and their committment to teaching. Their active Near Eastern Studies to an audience in Hopkins Hall on involvement as leaders in their professional fields cannot Neuroscience his experiments with the trans- Philosophy mission of sound by using rays of help but benefit their students. With a favorable student/ light instead of wires. faculty ratio of 8:1 in Engineering and 10:1 in Arts and Physics Sciences, most upperclass undergraduate and graduate Political Science 1884 classes are small and give students an excellent opportunity Psychology The Johns Hopkins Glee Club for advanced training and creative investigation. Introduc- Public Health gives its first concert. Woodrow Romance Languages Wilson sings tenor. Wilson re- tory classes are usually larger because so many students must take such courses before moving on to more advanced Russian ceives his Ph.D. in 1886; in 1913 Sociology he becomes the only U.S. presi- work. These classes, however, tend to be smaller than other Spanish dent to hold an earned doctorate. universities and are usually taught by outstanding members Writing Seminars of the faculty. 1885 The university’s seal is adopted. G.W.C. Whiting School of Engineering: Johns Hopkins Quick Facts Applied Mathematics & Statistics (B.A., B.S) 1889 Biomedical Engineering (B.A., B.S.) The Johns Hopkins Hospital Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (B.A., B.S.) opens. •Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the nation’s smallest major research university with 3,900 undergraduates and Civil Engineering (B.S.) Computer Engineering (B.S.) 1891 1,400 graduate students. Approximately 60% of Johns Computer Science (B.A., B.S.) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky performs Hopkins undergraduates are men, 40% are women, and Electrical Engineering (B.A., B.S.) at the Peabody Conservatory. 29% belong to racial minorities. Engineering Mathematics (B.S.) 1893 Environmental Engineering (B.S.) •Hopkins students represent all 50 states and 30 coun- The Johns Hopkins School of General Engineering (B.A) tries. Medicine opens. Georgraphy (B.A.) Materials & Science Engineering (B.S.) 1914 •Undergraduate studies are centered in the School of Arts Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) The university relocates to its cur- and Sciences and the School of Engineering, both located rent Homewood location. on the Homewood Campus. Admissions 1916 Admission to Johns Hopkins is highly competitive. Ap- •The student-faculty ratio is 8:1 in Engineering, 10:1 in The first Reserve Officer Train- plicants are considered on the basis of their high school ing Corps in the United States is Arts and Sciences. established on the Homewood record, standardized test results (SAT-1 and three SAT-II Campus at Johns Hopkins. •Almost two-thirds of Hopkins alumni enter graduate or Subject Tests or the ACT), recommendations, extracur- professional schools within one year of receiving their de- ricular activities, and essays. Early decision applications 1942 gree -- one of the highest proportions in the nation. are due by November 15. Applicants for early decision are The Applied Physics Laboratory given special consideration by the Admissions Committee is established to research and de- velop a radio proximity fuse that •Of the one-third who enter the job market directly after in light of the candidates’ strong interest in Hopkins. Early will explode a warhead near its graduation, the median starting salary for the class of 1997 decision candidates are notified by mid-December. Regu- target. was about $42,500 for Engineering graduates and $29,000 lar decision applications are due by January 1, and appli- for Arts and Sciences graduates. cants are notified the first week of April. 44 2005 Women’s Lacrosse • www.HopkinsSports.com Johns Hopkins University 14 fraternities and sororities play- 1956 ing an important role in campus Milton Stover Eisenhower, brother life. of the current U.S. president, is Hopkins sponsors 26 intercol- elected the eighth president of The Johns Hopkins University. legiate sports, with men’s lacrosse competing at the NCAA Division I 1964 level and the other varsity teams The Milton S. Eisenhower library competing at the NCAA Division is dedicated. The structure includes III level. the University also has a four and a half underground levels. varied program of intramural 1970 sports, organized by student mem- The first full-time female under- bers of the Board of Intramural graduates arrive on campus. Athletics. 1972 Student housing is provided for Students mount a festival on the freshmen and sophomores in resi- Homewood campus called 3400 on dence halls on the upper campus Stage.