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The Tour begins in the lobby of Mason hall, opened in fall 2007 and home of the office of undergraduate Admissions and
the university’s visitor center. From Mason hall, cross the Decker
Quadrangle to garland hall, the primary administrative building on
campus. Located here are the offices of student Financial services,
the registrar, student Accounts, and Academic Advising, as well as
the Career and Counseling centers. Cross through the lobby of garland and exit the other side. Look
to the right and follow the curving path onto Levering Plaza—the
wide brick patio in front of Levering hall, the student union. At the
beginning of each academic year, a student Activities Fair is held here, an opportunity
for students to learn
about and join any
of the more than 350
clubs, activities, and
organizations offered on
campus. Levering hall
houses large spaces
for special events,
Arellano Theater, the
hopstop student club, Pura Vida organic Coffee, the office of the Dean of student Life,
the Center for social Concern, and Levering Food Court, a popular
lunch spot. A student lounge is just inside the front doors. From Levering Plaza,
turn right and follow
the brick paths
onto the Wyman
Quadrangle, also
known as the Lower
Quad. on your right
sits Latrobe hall,
home to the Civil
engineering and
Mechanical engineering departments. Continue past Latrobe to
barton hall, where electrical & Computer engineering resides.
At the foot of the quad, you’ll see shriver hall, which houses the
largest auditorium on campus. students visit shriver to hear the
hopkins symphony orchestra and to enjoy movie screenings,
symposia speakers, comedy shows, concerts, and other special events. Following the
quad past shriver
and continuing up the
other side, you’ll see
shaffer hall. Attached
to the back of shaffer
is the new engineering
building, containing the
administrative offices
of the Whiting school of engineering. between shaffer and Maryland halls, at the bottom
of the steps, sits Whitehead hall, where the Department of Applied
Mathematics & statistics, the Center for Leadership education,
and the office of summer and intersession Programs reside.
Maryland hall houses the departments of Chemical & biomolecular
engineering and Materials science & engineering. Proceed up the double stairs at the head of the Wyman Quad. To
your right as you ascend is Krieger hall, which contains a 24- hour computer lab, the
Mathematics Department,
the Cognitive science
Department, the Language
Teaching Center, and
the Krieger Mind/brain
institute. on your left is
Ames hall, home to the departments of Psychological & brain
sciences, geography & environmental engineering, and history of
science & Technology. At the top of the
stairs, take a left. You
are now on the Keyser
Quadrangle, also
known as the upper
Quad. before you, at
the head of the quad,
stands gilman hall,
one of the academic and social hubs on campus. The bulletin boards inside gilman
are usually plastered with fliers and posters announcing upcoming
theatrical auditions, project opportunities, concerts, and festivals.
gilman hall is home to many of the
humanities departments, including
the departments of german &
romance Languages & Literatures,
history, english, near eastern
studies, and the Writing seminars.
inside gilman, you’ll find the
“hut,” a 24-hour undergraduate
library/study area, a coffee stand,
and the great seal of the university.
(students are cautioned not to
step on the seal for fear of not
graduating.) A major restoration
effort, due for completion in 2010,
is giving gilman a face-lift. Continue around the quad past
gilman. on your left, you will pass
Mergenthaler hall. Mergenthaler
houses a number of departments,
such as economics, sociology,
history of Art, and Political science,
which includes the international
studies program. Also in this
building are the administrative
offices for the Krieger school of
Arts & sciences. Attached to the back of Mergenthaler is Jenkins hall, which houses the biophysics
Department. Just past Mergenthaler is
remsen hall, which is the
original home of the Chemistry
Department. The building is
named after ira remsen, the
second president of Johns
hopkins. remsen is best known
for his participation in the discovery of saccharin in 1878.
his ashes are interred behind a plaque in the building. Majors Africana Studies
Anthropology
Applied Mathematics & Statistics Behavioral Biology
Biology Cognitive Science
Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Earth & Planetary Sciences
East Asian Studies
Economics
Electrical Engineering Engineering Mechanics
English
Environmental Earth Sciences Environmental Engineering
Film & Media Studies
French Biomedical Engineering
Biophysics
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Classics General Engineering
Geography
German
History
History of Art
History of Science & Technology
Interdisciplinary Studies Natural Sciences
Near Eastern Studies
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics
Political Science
Psychology International Studies
Italian
Latin American Studies
Materials Science & Engineering Mathematics
Mechanical Engineering W elcome to the homewood campus of Johns hopkins university. since you were unable to
attend one of our guided tours, we hope this brochure will serve as a good substitute. This
tour will give you a glimpse into life on campus—where Johns hopkins students live, work, study, and play—and will convey to you the range and diversity of educational opportunities available to
Johns hopkins undergraduates. ? Johns hopkins was founded in 1876 as America’s first research university. Today the 140-acre homewood campus houses the Krieger school of Arts & sciences and the
Whiting school of engineering. ? Although undergraduates take most or all of their classes in these divisions here at homewood, Johns hopkins is made up of 10 separate divisions, all of which afford
students ample opportunities for study or research. The other eight divisions of Johns hopkins are the Peabody
institute, the first conservatory of music chartered in the u.s. and part of Johns hopkins since 1977; the
school of Medicine; the bloomberg school of Public health; the school of nursing; the Paul h. nitze school
of Advanced international studies in Washington, D.C.; the Applied Physics Laboratory; the school of
education; and the Carey business school. To the right of remsen, at the
foot of the quad, sits the Milton
s. eisenhower Library. The
library was built in 1964 when
the university’s holdings became
too large for the original library
in gilman. so that its bulk would
not dwarf the other buildings on
campus, four stories were built underground. The library currently
holds roughly 2.8 million volumes, 55,000 print and electronic
journals, 216,000 maps, more than 8,000 videos and DVDs, 4.2
million microforms, and significant rare books, manuscripts, and
archival resources. enter the library, walk down
one set of steps, and exit
through the doors at the
foot of the stairs (a Johns
hopkins iD card is needed
to go past the security desk). You should now be facing “the beach,” a large lawn sloping down
the hill to n. Charles street. During the warm months, students
gather here in droves to socialize, sunbathe, and play Frisbee. From the library, turn
right and continue down
the path (descend the
steps) to the courtyard of
the Mattin Center. This
complex is dedicated
to the arts, and features
the swirnow Theater, the
Digital Media Center,
art studios, a dance studio, darkrooms, and music practice rooms,
as well as spaces for student groups to gather and the silk road
express café. Continue through the courtyard and out onto n.
Charles street. Across the street, you’ll see Charles Commons, a
residence hall complex and dining facility. The barnes & noble
Johns hopkins bookstore is located here. Turn left and walk up n.
Charles street. Across from the circular drive in front of the library,
you’ll see Wolman and McCoy halls,
two residence halls. Wolman hall’s
claim to fame is that—in its days as
an apartment building—Zelda and F.
scott Fitzgerald lived there for a time. Ascend the set of steps just past the
end of the circular drive. To your left
is homewood Museum, one of the
finest surviving examples of Federal
period architecture. homewood—the
building from which the homewood
campus gets its name—was a wedding present from Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737–1832),
one of four Maryland
signers of the Declaration
of independence, to his
only son, Charles Carroll Jr.
The house was restored by
the university and opened
to the public in 1987. Ahead of you and to your right stand the Alumni Memorial
residences, an area informally known as the Freshman Quad.
As the name implies, freshmen are housed in these residence halls,
which feature traditional double and single rooms. each of the two
complexes is subdivided into “houses” of 30 to 40 students. social
events, activities, and
intramural sports teams
are often organized by
house. At the far end
of the Freshman Quad
sit buildings A and b,
featuring suite-style
living, with a cluster
of single-sex rooms
sharing a bathroom. Fresh Food Café, the freshman dining hall, is
located between buildings A and b. Freshmen and sophomores are
required to live in university housing. Juniors and seniors choose
between university-owned housing or privately owned housing. Most
students live within three blocks of campus. Further up n. Charles Shaffer 10 KeySer Quad 16 aMeS 15 GILMaN 17 The huT 17 MerGeNThaLer 18 aMr s 29 WOLMaN 25 MaTTIN 23 22 The BeaCh MSe LIBrary 21 20 reMSeN 10K 08/07 LeVerING 5 Public Health Studies
Romance Languages
Sociology
Spanish
Writing Seminars 9 ShrIVer street, opposite the residence halls, is the bunting-Meyerhoff
interfaith and Community service Center, which houses Campus
Ministries. Proceed along the path,
keeping the AMrs, then
buildings A and b, on your
right. At the far side of the
Freshman Quad, turn right
and head up the hill. At the
top of the path, you’ll find
the newton h. White Athletic Center and the ralph s. o’Connor
recreation Center. The rec Center, open to all students, includes
basketball, volleyball, and squash courts; a running track; a weight
room; a cardiovascular fitness room; a climbing wall; and space for
fitness classes. The Athletic Center contains the swimming pool and
facilities dedicated to the training of varsity athletes. next to the
two centers stands homewood Field, home to the Johns hopkins blue Jays. Johns hopkins offers 24
Division iii teams, plus Division i men’s and
women’s lacrosse. The men’s team won the 2007
nCAA national championship. behind the Athletic
Center sits the roTC building, housing one of the
nation’s oldest Army roTC programs. Turn left and follow the curving paths through the bufano
sculpture garden. At the bottom of the hill, just past the gazebo,
you’ll see the path leading to the bloomberg Center for Physics
and Astronomy on your right. The largest building on campus,
bloomberg houses the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
it is also the site of the control center for the Far ultraviolet
spectroscopic explorer satellite, which was built at Johns
hopkins. beyond bloomberg, across san Martin Drive, are the space Telescope science
institute (sTsci) and the san
Martin Center. sTsci is the
astronomical research center
responsible for operating the
hubble space Telescope as
an international observatory.
Many of the scientists at
sTsci also teach at Johns hopkins. The san Martin Center houses
adjunct Johns hopkins research facilities. Continue to the
flight of stairs at
the bottom of the
hill. As you ascend,
you’ll see Mudd
hall on your left,
home of the biology
Department, and the Chemistry building on your right. At the top of the stairs,
you’ll find Macaulay hall on your left, where the Anthropology
Department is located. on the far side of Macaulay stands Dunning
hall. Turn right opposite Macaulay and follow the tree-lined path.
on the other side of the path, you’ll come to the Decker gardens.
The building to the right of the fountain is the Johns hopkins Club.
At the far end of the gardens is nichols house. President William
r. brody is the first
university president to
reside here since 1972.
To the left of the garden
sits the “greenhouse,”
which contains the
Writing Center and the Program in Latin
American studies. Continue down the road
between the back of
gilman and Levering
halls and the greenhouse.
Through the wooded area
on your right and across
san Martin Drive is olin hall, which houses
the earth & Planetary
sciences Department.
beyond the path to
olin sits hodson hall,
a classroom building
containing state-of-
the-art classrooms, a 500-seat auditorium, the trustee boardroom, and the hodson Trust
Archives. Just past hodson stands Clark hall, the biomedical
engineering Department’s home. Across the quad from Clark
hall, you’ll see the newly completed Computational science and
engineering building. At the head of the quad sits Mason hall,
where you began your tour. on the other side of Mason, across
Wyman Park
Drive, you’ll
find the Wyman
Park building,
which houses
Printing services
and additional
administrative
offices. if you have any additional
questions, please contact us at:
office of undergraduate Admissions
Johns hopkins university
Mason hall / 3400 n. Charles street
baltimore, MD 21218-2683 A Walking Tour of Johns Hopkins 50 1 We hope that your tour was enjoyable and
helpful in answering some of your questions. Phone: (410) 516-8171
Fax: (410) 516-6025
e-mail: gotojhu@jhu.edu
You can learn more about Johns hopkins and
apply online at apply.jhu.edu. 9 10 11 12 8 7 13 6 49 5 15 14 23 25 26 21 20 18 17 40 42 43 29 29 32 33 34 19 22 27 35 38 30 30 37 36 45 44 46 48 52 reC CeNTer 33 STScI 38 46 NIChOLS 41 CheMISTry BLOOMBerG 37 35 rOTC 16 36 31 47 Johns Hopkins University is committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse
community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. As such, Johns Hopkins does not
discriminate in any student program or activity administered by the university or with
regard to admission or employment. 2 24 4 39 39 hOdSON 49 50 CLarK 1. Mason
2. Decker Quadrangle
3. Garland
4. Levering Plaza
5. Levering
6. Wyman Quadrangle 7. Latrobe
8. Barton
9. Shriver
10. Shaffer
11. New Engineering
Bldg. 12. Whitehead
13. Maryland
14. Krieger
15. Ames
16. Keyser Quadrangle
17. Gilman 18. Mergenthaler
19. Jenkins
20. Remsen
21. MSE Library
22. Beach
23. Mattin Center 24. Charles Commons
25. Wolman
26. McCoy
27. Homewood House
28. Freshman Quad
29. AMRs 30. Bldgs. A and B
31. Interfaith Center
32. Athletic Center
33. Rec Center
34. Homewood Field
35. ROTC Bldg. 36. Bufano Garden
37. Bloomberg
38. STScI
39. San Martin Center
40. Mudd
41. Chemistry Bldg. 42. Macaulay
43. Dunning
44. Decker Gardens
45. Hopkins Club
46. Nichols House
47. Greenhouse 48. Olin
49. Hodson
50. Clark
51. Computational
Science & Eng.
52. Wyman Park Bldg. 41 28 3 51