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Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins

In 1979, Joshua Lederburg, recently appointed president of Rockefeller University, was in recruiting mode. Based on his long-term interest in the brain and psychiatry, Josh approached me with an attractive offer for myself and my colleagues Joe Coyle and Mike Kuhar. I visited our Dean, Richard Ross, to say goodbye, as I knew that Hopkins could never provide us Rockefellerlike resources. While R...

The Johns Hopkins Address Registration System: Anatomy of an Application

46 When Baltimore merchant Johns Hopkins in the late nineteenth century bequeathed seven million dollars to found a university and a hospital, he only hinted at the nature of the relationship he intended to exist between the two institutions.1 With separate boards of trustees, the two institutions evolved and grew significantly independent of one another. This mutual autonomy continued late int...

Valedictory Address

Valedictory Address

occur?if they do, they are smoothed over by the diplomacy of these officers. Due to the energy of the editor, the Transactions appear with unerring punctuality, admirably arranged, and thoughtfully classified. And, as the result of the highly courteous tone which characterises the discussions, the president's function as moderator is uniformly pleasant in its exercise, inasmuch as the utmost go...

Valedictory Address