Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, , or simply Hopkins is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, the university was named after its first benefactor, the American entrepreneur, abolitionist

 and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. His $7 million bequest of which half financed the establishment of The Johns Hopkins Hospital as the largest philanthropic gift in the history of the United States at

 the time. Daniel Gilman, who was inaugurated as the institution's first president on February 22, 1876, led the university to revolutionize higher education in the U.S. by integrating teaching 

and research. Adopting the concept of a graduate school from Germany's ancient Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins University is considered the first research university in the United States.

Johns Hopkins is organized into ten divisions on campuses in Maryland and Washington, D.C. with international centers in Italy, China, and Singapore. The two undergraduate divisions, the  School 

of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, are located on the campus in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood. The medical school, the nursing school, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health are located on the Medical Institutions campus in

 East Baltimore. The university also consists of the Peabody Institute, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Paul H. School of Advanced International Studies, the education school, the Carey Business School, and various other facilities.

A founding member of the American Association of Universities, Johns Hopkins has been considered one of the world’s top universities throughout its history. The University stands among the top 10 in US News' Best National Universities Rankings and top 20

 on a number of international league tables. Over the course of almost 140 years, thirty-six Nobel laureates have been affiliated with Johns Hopkins. Founded in 1883, the Blue Jays men’s lacrosse

 team has captured 44 national titles and joined the Big Ten Conference as an affiliate member in 2014
 Prior to becoming the main Johns Hopkins campus, the  estate had initially been the gift of Charles Carroll of , a Maryland planter and signer of the

 Declaration of Independence, to his son Charles Carroll Jr. The original structure, the 1801 House, still stands and serves as an on campus museum. The brick and marble Federal style of House 

became the architectural inspiration for much of the university campus. This fact explains the distinctively local of the campus as compared to the Collegiate Gothic style of other historic American universities.

In 1909, the university was among the first to start adult continuing education programs and in 1916 it founded the US' first school of public health.

Since the 1910s, Johns Hopkins University has famously been a "fertile cradle" to Arthur history of ideas

 The early decades of the 21st century saw expansion across the university's institutions in both physical and population sizes. Notably, a planned 88-acre expansion to the medical campus is well

 underway as of 2013. Completed construction on the  campus has included a new biomedical engineering building, a new library, a new biology wing, and an extensive renovation

 of the flagship Gilman Hall, while the reconstruction of the main university entrance is currently underway and expected to be completed by the end of 2014.

These years also brought about the rapid development of the university's professional schools of education and business. From 1999 until 2007, these disciplines had been joined together within 

the School of Professional Studies in Business and Education , itself a reshuffling of several earlier ventures. The 2007 split, combined with new

 funding and leadership initiatives, has led to the simultaneous emergence of the Johns Hopkins School of Education and the Carey Business School
 
 The Johns Hopkins University Press is the publishing division of the Johns Hopkins University. It was founded in 1878 and holds the distinction of being the oldest continuously running university press

 250 full text, peer reviewed journals in the humanities and social sciences. The Press also houses the Hopkins Services  which handles distribution for a number of university presses and

 in the United States.To date the Press has published more than 6,000 titles and currently publishes 65 scholarly periodicals and over 200 new books each year. Since 1993, the Johns Hopkins University Press has run Project MUSE, an online collection of over 

 publishers. Taken together, the three divisions of the Press Books, Journals and make it one of the largest of America's university presses.