The new Academic and Research Building on the Montgomery County campus was dedicated May 19 at a ceremony whose guests included Bruce Romer, the county's chief administrative officer, and West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who formally announced that the building's third floor will house a branch of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute. This is the second building for the campus, whose enrollment has grown from 800 students in 1988 to 8,000 today.

The recently dedicated Academic and Research Building will add 49,000 square feet of classroom and laboratory space to Hopkins' increasingly popular Montgomery County Campus, which offers more than 40 part-time undergraduate and graduate degree programs.

West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller formally announces that the new building's third floor will house a branch of the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute.

Elaine Amir, campus director, stands by a commemorative plaque for the second building.

Montgomery County chief administrative officer Bruce Romer presents university President William R. Brody with a plaque acknowledging the benefits of Hopkins' commitment to Montgomery County.