Gifts to the
Knowledge for the World campaign have
advanced the exceptional education,
research, patient care and public service initiatives for
which Johns Hopkins is known worldwide. The
following are only a sampling of the benefits that
philanthropic investments have produced throughout
the university, hospital and health system during the
campaign's eight years (2000-2008).
Student aid: $301 million
The reputation of Johns Hopkins' academic programs and
faculty attracts exceptional students
to all its schools. Scholarship support has an immediate
impact, signaling to applicants and current
students that Johns Hopkins is as committed to their
scholarly success as they are. But it also has a
far-reaching effect, providing a promise to future
generations that academic merit is the only
criterion by which they will be judged. In addition to
annual scholarship and fellowship support,
campaign giving has established new student aid endowments
and increased existing ones. Among these
are the following:
♦ Sommer Scholarships, awarded to exceptional
students from around the world to the
Bloomberg School of Public Health, to prepare them to
become the next generation of public health
leaders
♦ Hackerman Polytechnic Scholarships, created to
bring talented graduates of Baltimore
Polytechnic Institute to the Whiting School of
Engineering
♦ Hodson Scholarships, awarded to academically
talented undergraduates with leadership
qualities at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and
the Whiting School of Engineering
♦ Miller Scholarships, for students enrolling in
the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
who earlier had participated in programs for academically
gifted children offered by Johns Hopkins'
Center for Talented Youth
♦ Baltimore Scholarships, for graduates of
Baltimore City public high schools admitted to
Johns Hopkins as undergraduates
Faculty support: $237 million
Faculty members are the heart of the university. Johns
Hopkins' excellence rests on our ability
to attract and retain outstanding professors who are
leaders in their fields — individuals who teach and
mentor students; are actively engaged in scholarship and
discovery; and apply their expertise to the
practice of their disciplines, from medicine to business to
international affairs.
Endowments are critically important in providing our
academic leaders and distinguished faculty
with the resources to support their efforts and create
centers of excellence in their areas of
research. In all, 92 new named professorships, one named
deanship, one named directorship and one
named curatorship were created during the Knowledge for the
World campaign.
The Benjamin T. Rome Deanship of the Whiting School of
Engineering is the third endowed
deanship at Johns Hopkins. The Rome Deanship endowment will
provide the leader of the Whiting
School with discretionary funds that can be strategically
applied to launch new initiatives and seed
innovation.
Facilities: $675 million
The Knowledge for the World campaign has fueled an
unprecedented physical transformation of
Johns Hopkins campuses, including replacement of aging and
outmoded infrastructure and
constructions of facilities that will ensure Johns Hopkins'
continued leadership in research, education,
patient care and public service. New facilities and
renovation supported during this campaign, totaling
more than 4 million square feet, include:
♦ Peabody Institute campus reconstruction, which
has created a beautiful, well-integrated
environment for musical education and public performances
♦ Renovation of Gilman Hall, the iconic main
academic building on the Homewood campus
♦ Mason Hall, admissions and visitor center at
the Homewood campus
♦ Charles Commons residence hall for
undergraduates at the Homewood cam- pus
♦ Computational Science and Engineering Building
at the Whiting School of Engineering
♦ Smokler Center for Jewish Life (Hillel)
♦ Brody Learning Commons, an ex- pansion of
the Milton S. Eisenhower Library
♦ Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
Cardiovascular and Critical Care Tower
♦ Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center at
Johns Hopkins
♦ David H. Koch Cancer Research Building at the
Kimmel Cancer Center
♦ Robert H. and Clarice Smith Building/Maurice
Bendann Surgical Pavilion at Wilmer Eye
Institute
♦ David M. Rubenstein Child Health Building
♦ Hackerman-Patz Patient and Family Pavilion at
the Kimmel Cancer Center
♦ Armstrong Medical Education Building at the
School of Medicine
♦ John G. Rangos Sr. Building in the Science +
Technology Park
♦ Broadway Research Building
♦ Additions to the Bloomberg School of Public
Health's Wolfe Street building for teaching
and research
♦ New space for the Berman Institute of
Bioethics
♦ Samuel Pollard Building at the Hopkins-Nanjing
Center
♦ SAIS Bologna Center new building
♦ Additions and renovations to the Howard County
General Hospital campus for patient
care
Program support: $1.01 billion
The campaign has enabled Johns Hopkins to expand
existing efforts and launch new programs
that benefit students, patients and the public —
bringing knowledge to the world.
Most notable are the creation of the Kimmel
Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Carey
Business School. Philanthropy also underpins new and
expanded:
♦ Academic programs that include Jewish studies,
real estate, South Asia studies, financial
management, Africana studies, United StatesÐKorea relations
and strategic studies
♦ Clinical programs that focus on child health,
community nursing, therapeutic cognitive
neuroscience, cancer prevention and treatment, and many
other areas
♦ Policy and outreach efforts addressing such
issues as genetics and public policy,
educational reform, and politics and foreign relations
Research support: $1.27 billion
Campaign giving has greatly advanced the process of
discovery throughout Johns Hopkins,
establishing centers and institutes that foster
collaboration and accelerate discovery in key areas,
advancing promising lines of inquiry among faculty
throughout the university, launching the careers of
talented young faculty and ensuring that students at all
levels are engaged in research.
Although Johns Hopkins is the nation's top recipient
of federal research dollars, private gifts
and grants are the primary source of support for faculty
pursuing innovative work that is too novel to
garner government funding.
New initiatives fueled by campaign commitments
include:
♦ Scholarship and research on topics as wide
ranging as malaria, pancreatic cancer, world
and U.S. history, sudden cardiac death, breast cancer,
population health, the African Diaspora,
micronutrients, eye diseases, measles, prostate cancer,
behavior and health, and women in politics
♦ Centers and institutes focusing on basic
biomedical sciences, cell engineering, information
security, nanobiotechnology and ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease),
among other important areas
Unrestricted/undesignated support: $242 million
Unrestricted support provides university leadership
the ability to nimbly respond to urgent
challenges and to invest in unanticipated opportunities.
This funding is current-use, which enables
deans to provide support where it is needed when it is
needed, funding everything from novel faculty
research projects to programs designed to improve the
student life experience.
Unrestricted campaign support has been utilized by the
university deans in some of the
following ways:
♦ Student programming: funding for speaker
series like the Foreign Affairs Symposium, an
undergraduate-run lecture series open to the public
♦ Student life activities: funding for the
Center for Social Concern's Tutorial Project,
which provides tutoring to Baltimore City elementary
students; support for "senior week," on-campus
concerts and other social events for students
♦ Student financial support: scholarships for
undergraduates and graduate students across
Johns Hopkins; scholarships for CTY students; athletic
support (travel, equipment, etc.)
♦ Upgrading of research and teaching
laboratories and equipment, including instruments for
Peabody students
♦ Development of new educational programming:
"B-more" intersession class for freshmen,
introducing them to Baltimore's history and culture
♦ Faculty support: exhibit support and online
journal access for the Sheridan Libraries;
support for the Welch Library; support at Packard Center
for ALS Research
♦ Seed funding for new research opportunities,
including travel funding for students at
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