Johns Hopkins University history

The Johns Hopkins University Press, founded in 1878, is the oldest American university press in continuous operation.

Christine Ladd-Franklin was the first woman to earn a PhD at Hopkins, in mathematics in 1882.

The nursing school opened in 1889 and accepted women and men as students.

In 1893 a group of women interested in obtaining opportunities in medical education raised an endowment of $500,000 that was given with the understanding that women would be admitted to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (now located in eastern Baltimore) on the same terms as men.

He divided his time between his country house, Clifton, where he entertained the Prince of Wales and other notable people, and a colonial rowhouse on West Saratoga Street. (Clifton was sold to the city in 1895 and the house served for many years as the Clifton Park Golf Course’s club house.

On February 22, 1902, this land was formally transferred to the university.

Other graduate schools were later opened to women by president Ira Remsen in 1907.

The flagship building, Gilman Hall, was completed in 1915.

African-American instructor and laboratory supervisor Vivien Thomas was instrumental in developing and conducting the first successful blue baby operation in 1944.

Louise Erdrich, in full Karen Louise Erdrich, (born June 7, 1954, Little Falls, Minnesota, United States), American author whose principal subject is the Ojibwa Indians in the northern Midwest.

In tandem with on-campus research, Johns Hopkins has every year since 1979 had the highest federal research funding of any American university.

Erdrich returned to the setting of her earlier novels for The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001), about the tribulations of a woman who assumes the identity of a priest in order to take up his position on a reservation.

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 Round House (2012), in which an Ojibwa teenager seeks justice after his mother is raped, won the National Book Award.

On September 5, 2013, cryptographer and Johns Hopkins university professor Matthew Green posted a blog entitled, "On the NSA", in which he contributed to the ongoing debate regarding the role of NIST and NSA in formulating United States cryptography standards.

In 2015 Erdrich was a recipient of the United States Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

LaRose (2016) investigates tragedy, grief, and Ojibwa tradition through the story of a boy whose parents give him to their neighbour’s family after his father accidentally shoots their son.

Erdrich’s next novel, Future Home of the Living God (2017), was something of a departure from her previous works.

On November 18, 2018, it was announced that Michael Bloomberg would make a donation to his alma mater of $1.8 billion, marking the largest private donation in modern history to an institution of higher education and bringing Bloomberg's total contribution to the school in excess of $3.3 billion.

In January 2019, the university announced an agreement to purchase the Newseum, located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.