The Presidency of William R. Brody

April 8, 1996 – The Board of Trustees elects William R. Brody to serve as the 13th president of The Johns Hopkins University, effective Sept. 1.

Sept. 1, 1996 – President Brody takes office, announcing that he will live on the Homewood campus in Nichols House.

Sept. 16, 1996 – First Lady Hillary Clinton pays her fourth visit to Johns Hopkins, delivering the closing address of a three-day conference designed to bring winning foreign aid strategies home to America's poorest citizens.

Oct. 14, 1996 – Steven Knapp, dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is appointed the university's provost and vice president for academic affairs.

Dec. 1996 – Baltimore City approves the university's contract to buy and redevelop the vacant Eastern High School building and surrounding property on East 33rd Street.

Dec. 1996 – Montgomery County planners approve the university’s plan to create a research and development campus on the 138-acre Belward Farm property.
 
Dec. 1996 – Ronald Peterson is appointed president of The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Jan. 14, 1997 – Edward D. Miller Jr., is named the first chief executive officer of Johns Hopkins Medicine and the 13th dean of the School of Medicine faculty.

Feb. 1997 – President Brody announces the creation of the JHU Diversity Leadership Council, a new interdivisional body to monitor and encourage top performance in an increasingly diverse university workforce.

Feb. 23, 1997 – In a ceremony at Homewood, four former Johns Hopkins presidents join elected officials and representatives of academia as William R. Brody is formally installed as the university's 13th president.

Sept. 15, 1997 – The university completes the $4.6 million renovation of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library, including the creation of a Digital Knowledge Center, expansion of the existing Electronic Resource Center and new furniture.

Sept. 29, 1997 – Victor McKusick of the School of Medicine and Alfred Sommer of the Bloomberg School of Public Health are awarded Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards for 1997. The Laskers are widely considered “the American Nobels.”

Oct. 20, 1997 – James McGill becomes the university’s senior vice president for administration.

Jan. 5, 1998 – The School of Nursing moves into a new home in the Anne M. Pinkard Building.

Jan. 12, 1998 – Ross Jones, advisor to six of Johns Hopkins’ 13 presidents, announces his retirement.

Jan. 20, 1998 – The School of Public Health receives a $5 million commitment from an anonymous donor that will allow it to proceed with plans for an eight-story $6.2 million addition to its Wolfe Street building in East Baltimore.
 
Feb. 9, 1998 – The Milton S. Eisenhower Library and its collections are renamed The Sheridan Libraries in honor of R. Champlin Sheridan, a 1952 graduate of Johns Hopkins, and his wife, Debbie.

March 1998 – The Peabody Institute's announces that its historic North Hall will be renamed Leith Symington Griswold Hall, thanks to a $2 million gift from Wendy and Benjamin H. Griswold IV.

March 18, 1998 – Howard County General Hospital becomes part of the Johns Hopkins Medicine family.

May 3, 1998 – In recognition of a $10 million gift from A. James Clark, the Board of Trustees approves a name for a proposed building that will house biomedical engineering studies on the Homewood Campus: Clark Hall.

May 11, 1998 – Two important academic posts at the Homewood campus are filled when Herb Kessler is named dean of the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and Ilene Busch-Vishniac is appointed dean of the Whiting School of Engineering.

June 8, 1998 – Trustees, classmates and friends pledge more than $2 million for a wing of Johns Hopkins' proposed new student arts center and name it for retiring Vice President Ross Jones.

Sept. 1998 – The National Science Foundation provides $12.9-million to launch the Engineering Research Center in Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology, based at Johns Hopkins.

Oct. 1998 – Entrepreneur and university alumnus Michael R. Bloomberg pledges another $45 million to the university, completing his record gift to the current Johns Hopkins campaign at $100 million.

Oct. 1998 – The Whitaker Foundation announces a $17 million grant to the university to help build and operate a new institute dedicated to cutting-edge research and education in biomedical engineering.

Oct. 29, 1998 – Johns Hopkins University announces that it will extend to same-sex domestic partners the same benefits and privileges currently offered to spouses and their dependent children, effective Jan. 1, 1999.

Nov. 2, 1998 – President Brody charges an unusual multidivisional council of health and human services specialists, known as the President's Council on Urban Health, with devising new ways in which Johns Hopkins can partner with civic, government and business groups to tackle an enduring health crisis in East Baltimore.
 
Nov. 1998 – Johns Hopkins researchers, led by John Gearhart, are one of two teams to announce that they have isolated and identified human stem cells and proved them capable of forming the fundamental tissues that give rise to distinct human cells.

Dec. 1998 – Alice McDermott, a visiting professor in The Writing Seminars, wins the National Book Award for fiction for her novel “Charming Billy.”

Jan. 1999 – Uniting nine centers, scores of physicians and scientists, and budgets worth tens of millions of dollars, the School of Medicine announces the formation of the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine.

Feb. 15, 1999 – The university¹s Graduate Division of Business and Management announces a new MBA program, to begin in September 1999.

March 6, 1999 – The Johns Hopkins women's lacrosse team enters a new era, playing its first game in the NCAA Division I ranks.

March 1999 – Ayers/Saint/Gross, a Baltimore-based architectural firm, is selected as the consultant to create a new master plan for Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus.

April 5, 1999 – The university announces that its School of Continuing Studies, which has educated adult part-time students for 90 years, will become known as the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, beginning July 1.

May 2, 1999 – The university celebrates the opening of the Bunting Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center.

May 1999 – Entrepreneur J. Barclay Knapp commits $10 million to endow the deanship of the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in memory of his father.

May 1999 – The Bunting family and the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation pledge $10 million each to the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center's new cancer research building.

June 1999 – The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation commits $20 million to create the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the School of Public Health.

June 24, 1999 – Johns Hopkins’ Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) spacecraft lifts off from Cape Canaveral on a multi-year mission to trace the fossil records of the origins of the universe.

July 1999 – The Hodson Trust commits $13 million to the university for a new four-story, 50,000-square-foot building multi-use building on the Homewood campus.

Oct. 18, 1999 – The university announced that Richard Roca, a vice president of AT&T Labs, will join Johns Hopkins on Jan. 1 as the seventh director of its Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).

Oct. 25, 1999 – Johns Hopkins Medicine dedicates the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Building, the new $125 million home for its comprehensive clinical cancer services.

Nov. 16, 1999 – Daniel Nathans, esteemed scientist, professor, former interim president of the university and recipient of the Nobel Prize, dies of leukemia at age 71.

Dec. 1, 1999 – Richard E. McCarty, a senior member of the faculty since 1990, is appointed dean of the university's Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. 

Jan. 10, 2000 – The Johns Hopkins University European Office in Berlin opens, directed by Stephen M. McClain, a vice provost.

Jan. 18, 2000 – Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gives the annual Rostov Lecture on International Affairs at Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies.

Feb. 14, 2000 – APL’s Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft begins orbiting the asteroid Eros on a science mission for NASA.

Feb. 2000 – Seeking to add space and consolidate programs in Washington, D.C., the university acquires control of an eight-story office building at 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., near Dupont Circle.

March 8, 2000 – President Bill Clinton lays out his case for establishing "permanent normal trade relations" with China in a speech at SAIS.

April 2000 – The Homewood campus prepares for the arrival at least 1 million bricks that will replace asphalt walks and roads in a massive makeover called "Great Excavations."

June 12, 2000 – Dave Pietramala, a 1990 Johns Hopkins graduate and for the past three years the head men's lacrosse coach at Cornell, is named the head coach of the men's lacrosse team at Hopkins. 

June 30, 2000 – The Johns Hopkins Initiative ends, after attracting $1.52 billion in commitments that nearly double the university's number of named scholarships and fellowships, endow 130 professorships and two deanships and modernize Johns Hopkins facilities for patient care, research, teaching and student life.

July 2000 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards the School of Public Health $20 million to find the combination of vitamins and other micronutrients that will most effectively save lives and prevent illness among impoverished mothers and children in the developing world.

Aug. 30, 2000 – ABC’s groundbreaking six-part documentary television series, “Hopkins 24/7,” premieres.

Oct. 2000 – The book “Johns Hopkins: Knowledge for the World” is published in anticipation of the university's 125th anniversary in 2001.

Oct. 9, 2000 – Paul Greengard, who in 1953 received a Ph.D. in biophysics from the Krieger School of Arts and Science, is named as one of three joint winners of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Dec. 4, 2000 – The Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute is launched to explore the legal, ethical and public policy challenges of keeping information private and computer systems secure.

Jan. 2, 2001 – The new 35,000-square-foot Downtown Center of the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education opens.

Feb. 5, 2001 – President George W. Bush announces he will nominate Paul Wolfowitz, dean of SAIS, as deputy secretary of defense.

Feb. 2001 – The long-awaited 53,000-square-foot student arts complex opens on the Homewood campus.

Feb. 2001 – With a $58.5 million gift from an anonymous donor, the School of Medicine launches an Institute for Cell Engineering.

Feb. 12, 2001 – APL’s NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft cruises to the surface of asteroid Eros at a gentle 4 mph, finally coming to rest after its 2-billion-mile journey.

Feb. 2001 – A university-wide search committee selects Ray Gillian to head up the new Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Programs.   

April 20, 2001 – The Homewood campus’s new student arts complex is dedicated as the Mattin Center, in honor of the family of university trustee Christina Mattin, a 1975 graduate of Johns Hopkins.

April 23, 2001 – Johns Hopkins renames its School of Hygiene and Public Health in honor of university alumnus and media entrepreneur Michael R. Bloomberg.

May 2001 – An anonymous donor pledges $100 million to the Bloomberg School of Public Health to establish the Johns Hopkins Malaria Institute.

July 13, 2001 – President George W. Bush visits the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions campus to give an address promoting his Medicare reform plans.

July 19, 2001 – Johns Hopkins receives notice that the Office of Human Research Protection is temporarily suspending all federally supported medical projects involving human research at almost all Hopkins institutions. The action is taken three days after the School of Medicine issues a report in which it takes full responsibility for the death on June 2 of research volunteer Ellen Roche.

Sept. 2001 – The external review committee appointed by President Brody to help evaluate Johns Hopkins' research policies and procedures submitted a report with substantial criticisms of research oversight at the institution, along with an addendum  affirming the corrective action plan advanced by Hopkins following Roche’s death.

Sept. 19, 2001 – The university signs an agreement to sell public radio station WJHU-FM to the community-based Maryland Public Radio Corp., a nonprofit group formed to convert the station from a university-owned entity to a community licensee.

Oct. 12, 2001 – Clark Hall is dedicated as the new home of biomedical engineering on the Homewood campus.

Oct. 2001 – Two School of Medicine, faculty members – Kay Redfield Jamison and Geraldine Seydoux – receive prestigious MacArthur Fellowships, commonly called “Genius Awards.”

Nov. 14, 2001 – Sidney Kimmel, founder and chairman of Jones Apparel Group, donates $150 million for cancer research and patient care – the largest single gift ever to Johns Hopkins. The Johns Hopkins Cancer Center is officially renamed The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.

Dec. 2001 – The National University of Singapore signs an agreement to collaborate with the Peabody Institute on the establishment of the Singapore Conservatory of Music.
 
Feb. 18, 2002 – Daniel Weiss, an art historian and a member of the Johns Hopkins faculty since 1993, is appointed dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
 
March 14, 2002 – The Phoebe R. Berman Bioethics Institute at Johns Hopkins receives a three-year, $9.9 million grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts to establish the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

March 18, 2002 – Jessica P. Einhorn, a former managing director of the World Bank, is appointed dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies 
 
March 2002 – President Bush nominates Elias Zerhouni, the School of Medicine’s executive vice dean since 1997, to head the National Institutes of Health.

April 12, 2002 – The university dedicates a new 63,000-square-foot, $14.3 million recreation center in honor of Ralph S. O'Connor, a Johns Hopkins alumnus and strong believer in the value of sports and physical fitness.

April 2002 – In a vacant lot near the JHMI campus, city, state and Johns Hopkins officials announce plans for the $200 million East Baltimore Development project, the cornerstone of which will be a 22-acre biotechnology research park.

May 20, 2002 – Martha Hill, a Johns Hopkins faculty member for 22 years and director of the Center for Nursing Research, is appointed dean of the School of Nursing, effective July 1.

May 2002 – The Johns Hopkins Institutions announce a $2 billion goal for a new “Johns Hopkins Campaign: Knowledge for the World” fund-raising effort.

May 2002 – Victor A. McKusick, University Professor of Medical Genetics at the School of Medicine, who is widely acknowledged as the father of genetic medicine, is selected to receive a National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush.

June 4, 2002 – Winston Tabb, who has overseen all services and programs at the Library of Congress since 1995, is named dean of university libraries and director of the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins.

July 12, 2002 – In recognition of a $5 million commitment from the Robert Packard Foundation, Johns Hopkins' Center for ALS Research is renamed the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins.

Oct. 2002 – APL signs a five-year contract with the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C., that allows the laboratory to conduct work for the Navy up to a ceiling of $1.75 billion.

Oct. 2002 – Riccardo Giacconi, a research professor in the Johns Hopkins' Department of Physics and Astronomy, is named a winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics.

Oct. 13, 2002 – President Brody and other dignitaries dedicate the Bernstein-Offit Building, the university's newest physical presence in Washington, D.C.

Oct. 29, 2002 – Hodson Hall, a 44,200-square-foot, $15 million academic building on the Homewood campus, is dedicated in honor of the Hodson Trust.

Jan. 16, 2003 – A joint venture led by Baltimore-based Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse Inc. is chosen by Johns Hopkins to develop a retail, student housing and parking complex on university-owned land in Charles Village.

Jan. 21, 2003 – Publisher and diplomat Philip Merrill commits $4 million to SAIS to establish the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies. 

Feb. 2003 – Julie A. Freischlag is named the new William Stewart Halsted Professor and director of the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine and surgeon in chief of the hospital. She is the first woman and only the sixth person to serve in these posts in the school's 110-year history.

Feb. 26, 2003 – The university signs a letter of intent to pursue the purchase of the 68-acre Mount Washington Corporate Campus from the St. Paul Cos., with plans to relocate administrative offices to the north Baltimore site.

March 24, 2003 – The Johns Hopkins Institutions, already Maryland's largest private employer, have added more than 3,000 Maryland jobs to their payrolls over the past three years, a new analysis of the institutions' economic impact finds.

May 2003 – The School of Medicine is awarded a four-year, $24 million gift from the Las Vegas-based Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a multidisciplinary center focused exclusively on reducing the rate of sudden cardiac death.

May 2003 – The university's Commission on Undergraduate Education issues its final report, containing 34 specific recommendations that, once implemented, are intended to improve significantly the quality of the undergraduate experience.

June 2003 – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commits $40 million to the Bloomberg School of Public Health for population and reproductive health programs in the developing world.

Aug. 2003 – Faculty, staff and students begin moving into the new $18 million, 50,000-square-foot New Chemistry Building on the Homewood campus, a building that replaces the antiquated 40-year-old Dunning Hall.

Sept. 2003 – After three years of construction, the 10-story Broadway Research Building opens on the East Baltimore campus opens, providing state-of-the-art laboratories and administrative office space for both the School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Oct. 8, 2003 – Peter Agre, a professor of biological chemistry at the School of Medicine, is awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry in recognition for his laboratory's discovery of the long-sought "channels" that regulate and facilitate water molecule transport through cell membranes.

Dec. 2003 – The Baltimore City Public School System announces that in Sept. 2004, it will open the Baltimore Talent Development High School, based on a model created by the Center for Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins.

Dec. 2003 – An HBO film crew visits the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses to shoot scenes for "Something the Lord Made," a true story of Johns Hopkins surgeon Alfred Blalock and lab technician Vivien Thomas, who in 1944 co-developed a method to save oxygen-deprived "blue babies."

Jan. 12, 2004 – NCAA Division III colleges and universities overwhelmingly reject a proposal to strip eight schools, including Johns Hopkins, of the right to award athletic grants-in-aid in sports in which they have traditionally competed on the Division I level.

Jan. 2004 – Some 8,000 books that were damaged by water the previous summer at the university's George Peabody Library are returned to the stacks after undergoing a vacuum freeze-dried restoration process.

March 5, 2004 – A daylong symposium on the state of Africana studies celebrates the creation of the university's Center for Africana Studies, established in fall 2003 as part of the university's efforts to diversify the intellectual footprint on campus.

April 12, 2004 – Two and a half years after the first shovelful of dirt was dug, Peabody officially unveils its just-completed $26.8 million makeover.

April 2004 – The Bloomberg School of Public Health celebrates the culmination of a 12-year construction and renovation project that has nearly doubled the size of the facility and extensively modernized the look and feel of the 78-year-old campus.

April 20, 2004 – About 2,000 students and others gather on Homewood's Keyser Quadrangle to mourn the loss of 20-year-old Christopher Elser, a fun-loving junior whose life ended two days earlier after an attack by an intruder in an the off-campus apartment building.

June 2, 2004 – Johns Hopkins University announces its new Baltimore Scholars Program, saying it will provide full-tuition scholarships to graduates of Baltimore City public schools accepted into the university's undergraduate programs.

June 7, 2004 – The university's board of trustees approves a long-debated reform to the schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering's promotion policy that will allow tenure to be regularly conferred at appointment to the rank of associate professor.

July 6, 2004 – On the recommendation of President Brody, the university's board of trustees appoints Nick Jones — who had spent almost all of his career at Johns Hopkins — as the fourth dean of the Whiting School of Engineering.

July 2004 – Edward A. St. John, president and CEO of MIE Properties, makes a $5.85 million commitment to the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education, to be used to support a full-time master's degree program in real estate.

Aug. 2004 – The Middle States Commission on Higher Education reaffirms the accreditation of Johns Hopkins, officially ending an intensive two-year process.

Aug. 3, 2004 – The MESSENGER spacecraft, built and managed for NASA by APL, is launched from Cape Canaveral on a voyage to explore the planet Mercury.

Aug. 2004 – Johns Hopkins affiliate JHPIEGO receives a five-year award of $75 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development to lead ACCESS, a program to save the lives of mothers and newborns in developing nations.

Oct. 19, 2004 – Paul H. Nitze, adviser to presidents of the United States from both parties, a leading strategist and arms control expert, and co-founder of Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies, dies at his home in Georgetown. He was 97.

Nov. 2004 – The university's Buildings and Grounds Committee approves the design for the South Quadrangle Development project, which calls for a university visitor center, a computational science building and a 600-space underground parking structure.

Jan. 23, 2005 – The university mourns the loss of Linda Trinh, a 21-year-old senior biomedical engineering major, who is found dead in a privately owned apartment building near the Homewood campus in what police determine to be a homicide.

Jan. 31, 2005 – President Brody announces a series of initiatives to enhance the safety and security of students on the Homewood campus and in the neighboring community, including the hiring of off-duty police and tightening security measures at residence halls.

Feb. 21, 2005 – The White House announces that Johns Hopkins astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi and neuroscientist Solomon H. Snyder will receive the 2003 National Medal of Science, the United States' top scientific recognition.
 
March 2005 – President George Bush says he will nominate Michael Griffin, who heads APL's Space Department, to be the next administrator of NASA.

March 23, 2005 – Baltimore City Police announce the arrest of a 27-year-old male Baltimore resident charged with the murder of Johns Hopkins undergraduate Linda Trinh.

April 7, 2005 – Continuing its efforts to enhance the security of students, faculty and staff, the university’s Homewood campus installs a state-of-the-art closed-circuit TV system that alerts operators when it spots suspicious activity.

May 16, 2005 – Michael J. Klag, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of heart and kidney disease and a Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1987, is appointed dean of the School of Public Health.

May 30, 2005 – With a come-from-behind 9-8 victory against Duke in the Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Johns Hopkins crowns an unforgettable season of perfection and earns its eighth national NCAA title and first since 1987.

July 25, 2005 – The "South Quadrangle," to be built on the Homewood campus, is officially named the Alonzo G. and Virginia G. Decker Quadrangle, in honor of the Baltimore couple's decades of service to and generosity toward Johns Hopkins.

Aug. 15, 2005 – The National Science Foundation commits $7.5 million to launch a Johns Hopkins-based research center dedicated to improving the reliability and trustworthiness of voting technology.

Sept. 19, 2005 – The board of trustees' Building and Grounds Committee authorizes the selection an architect and construction manager for the long-anticipated renovation of 90-year-old Gilman Hall.

Oct. 22, 2005 – C. Michael Armstrong, chairman of the Johns Hopkins Medicine board of trustees, commits $20 million to the School of Medicine for planning and construction of a new education building, the first such facility on the campus in nearly 25 years.

Dec. 5, 2005 – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announces the selection of Johns Hopkins to lead a national consortium that will investigate how the nation can best prepare for and respond to large-scale incidents and disasters.

Jan. 19, 2006 – The New Horizons spacecraft, designed and built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, lifts off from Cape Canaveral in the first mission to the distant planet Pluto.
 
Jan. 23, 2006 – Adam F. Falk, a theoretical physicist and Johns Hopkins faculty member since 1994, is appointed the James B. Knapp Dean of the university's Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.

Jan. 2006 – A Johns Hopkins archaeological expedition in Luxor, Egypt, unearths a life-sized statue, dating back nearly 3,400 years, of one of the queens of the powerful king Amenhotep III.

Feb. 2, 2006 – An anonymous benefactor commits $100 million to the Johns Hopkins: Knowledge for the World campaign, supporting critical initiatives in medicine, public health and the humanities.

Feb. 13, 2006 – Ribbon-cutting ceremonies take place for the new Libraries' Service Center, a state-of-the-art facility, located on the Applied Physics Laboratory campus, providing high-density shelving for more than 2 million volumes.

March 2006 – Johns Hopkins' new 73,000-square-foot Education Building, formerly known as Seton Court, officially opens its doors at 2800 N. Charles St.

March 2006 – A research team, led by a Johns Hopkins astronomer, finds new evidence of what happened within the universe’s first trillionth of a second, when it suddenly grew from submicroscopic to astronomical size in far less than a wink of the eye.

April 10, 2006 – President George W. Bush visits SAIS to give a major talk on the global war on terror. The president, who is introduced by President Brody, also fields questions from SAIS students on nuclear weapons in Iran, the Asia Pacific region, sex trafficking, and democracy in the Middle East.

April 17, 2006 – Dignitaries from Johns Hopkins, the city of Baltimore and the state of Maryland participate in the groundbreaking of the first building in what will be known as the Science + Technology Park at Johns Hopkins, part of the New EastSide project just north of the medical campus.

May 15, 2006 – The university launches its new Institute for NanoBioTechnology, drawing on the expertise of more than 75 faculty members from such diverse disciplines as engineering, biology, medicine and public health.

May 15, 2006 – Johns Hopkins establishes a Center for Global Health to coordinate and focus its efforts against HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, flu and other worldwide health threats, especially in developing countries.

May 30, 2006 – Pianist, composer and veteran music educator Jeffrey Sharkey is appointed director of the Peabody Institute. Sharkey, dean of the Cleveland Institute of Music, will join Johns Hopkins on Oct. 1.

Sept. 1, 2006 – Charles Commons, the highly anticipated residential, dining and retail complex, opens in the heart of Charles Village adjacent to the Homewood campus.

Sept. 17, 2006 – Carol Greider, a School of Medicine professor and one of the world's pioneering researchers on the structure of chromosome ends known as telomeres, is named to share the 2006 Albert Lasker Award, often dubbed the "American Nobel."

Oct. 25, 2006 – NASA launches the STEREO spacecraft, built by and operated by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, on a mission to obtain 3-D measurements of the sun and its flow of energy.
 
Oct. 26, 2006 – Johns Hopkins raises its "Knowledge for the World" campaign goal to $3.2 billion and extends the campaign through 2008. The $2 billion original goal was eclipsed in December 2005, two years ahead of the original schedule.

Nov. 2006 – Following a fraternity Halloween party the invitation to which invoked offensive racial stereotyping, the university suspends all activities of the fraternity, pending investigation, and takes other steps to emphasize the importance of diversity, tolerance and inclusion.

Nov. 8, 2006 – Prompted by recommendations in University Committee on the Status of Women's final report, the university announces a commitment to achieve, by the year 2020, complete gender equity at Johns Hopkins in terms of the makeup of the faculty and in senior leadership positions, as well as significant changes in institutional culture.

Nov. 9, 2006 – Fouad Ajami, director of the Middle East Studies Program at SAIS, receives a National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at a ceremony held in the Oval Office.

Dec. 4, 2006 – Johns Hopkins' second cancer research building is dedicated and named to honor philanthropist and university trustee David Koch, who recently donated $20 million in support of the building.

Dec. 4, 2006 – University trustees, in response to a $50 million gift for business education, vote to establish both the Carey Business School, in honor of trustee emeritus William Polk Carey, and a School of Education.

Jan. 1, 2007 – The Hopkins One system goes “live” for 11,000 employees who must access it to make purchases, run financial reports, file expense reports and track human resources activity, among other business-related functions.   

Feb. 2007 – In recognition of the Peabody’s Institute’s 150th birthday, the Peabody chapter of the university's alumni association compiles a list of 244 alumni concert performances in 31 states and 17 countries scheduled for February.
 
Feb. 19, 2007 – President Brody is elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering.

Feb. 27, 2007 – Aris Melissaratos, former secretary of Maryland's Department of Business and Economic Development, joins Johns Hopkins as special adviser to the president for enterprise development.

March 2007 – Johns Hopkins Medicine launches the Brain Science Institute, a unique interdisciplinary endeavor that its leaders feel will help transform the field of neuroscience.

April 9, 2007 – The university announces that a $73 million renovation of historic Gilman Hall will begin in the summer, a three-year project that will restore the 92-year-old academic icon to its status as a model for teaching and scholarship in the humanities.

April 25, 2007 – The university adopts the code of conduct proposed by the New York attorney general to govern the relationship between universities and student loan companies.

April 2007 – An international team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory unveils a prototype of the first fully integrated prosthetic arm that can be controlled naturally, provides sensory feedback and allows for eight degrees of freedom.
 
May 28, 2007 – Johns Hopkins captures its ninth NCAA lacrosse title and second in three years in a 12-11 victory against Duke in a game that goes down to the final ticks of the clock before a crowd of nearly 50,000 people at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

June 22-23, 2007 – The Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies hosts its 20th anniversary celebration and reunion at the Nanjing campus, culminating in the presentation of an award to former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

June 25, 2007 – The university is awarded a long-term, multimillion dollar federal contract to establish and operate a Human Language Technology Center of Excellence near the Homewood campus.

July 18, 2007 – Kristina M. Johnson, dean of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, is appointed provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Johns Hopkins, effective Sept. 1.

July 17, 2007 – James E. West, a Johns Hopkins engineering faculty member who co-invented the microphone used in most telephones, is named a recipient of the nation’s highest honor for technological innovation, the National Medal of Technology.

Sept. 2007 – The university acquires what is believed to be the largest privately held collection of items associated with writer and journalist H.L. Mencken — nearly 6,000 books, articles, letters, photographs and other items amassed over 44 years.

Sept. 7, 2007 – President Brody, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, urges reporters covering the 2008 presidential campaign to push their health care policy coverage beyond the obvious questions about the price of health care and the availability of insurance.

Sept. 2007 – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts selects Peabody's Leon Fleisher to be among those who will receive the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors Award, one of the nation's highest artistic tributes.

Sept. 21, 2007 – Staff members move into Mason Hall, the new 28,000-square- foot admissions and visitor center that will serve as the Homewood campus’ new “front door.”

Sept. 25, 2007 – Lisa Cooper, a Liberian-born Johns Hopkins internist and epidemiologist who studies racial and ethnic disparities in medical care and research, is named a 2007 fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Oct. 29, 2007 – Yash P. Gupta, an innovative educator who has led three prominent business schools, is appointed the first dean of Johns Hopkins’ new Carey Business School.

Oct. 2007 – Nobel laureate Peter Agre is selected to lead the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

Jan. 14, 2008 – More than three decades after Mariner 10's last flyby, APL’s MESSENGER spacecraft passes 124 miles above Mercury's surface, collecting images of a large portion of Mercury's surface that has never before been seen by a spacecraft.