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The Johns Hopkins University opened Feb. 22, 1876, with the inauguration of its first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. "What are we aiming at?" Gilman asked in his installation address. "The encouragement of research ... and the advancement of individual scholars, who by their excellence will advance the sciences they pursue, and the society where they dwell."
Building from scratch, rather than taking over an existing institution, freed Gilman to create something entirely new, at least in the United States. He established a research university, dedicated not just to advancing students' knowledge but also to advancing the state of human knowledge generally, through research and scholarship.
The university is named for its initial benefactor, Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins, whose $7 million bequest -- the largest U.S. philanthropic gift to that time -- was divided evenly to finance the establishment of both the university and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Today, the university enrolls 18,000 full-time and part-time students. The headquarters campus -- Homewood -- has nearly 4,000 full-time undergraduates and nearly 1,400 full-time graduate students in two schools, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering.
Location: Baltimore, MD 21218
Founded: 1876
President: Ronald J. Daniels
Enrollment: 4,578
Colors: Columbia Blue, Black
Nickname: Blue Jays
Varsity Sports: 27
Director of Athletics:
Tom Calder, 410.516.7490
Associate AD::
Mike Renwick, 410.516.7487
SWA::
Rebecca Copeland, 410.516.5138
Assistant AD/SID::
Ernie Larossa, 410.516.0552
Assistant SID: Jill Olsen, 410.516.0638
Athletic Trainer:
Brad Mountcastle, 410.516.7493
Equipment Manager: Rich Moscarello, 410.516.6403
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