Land of 1,000 Acronyms
WSE
Whiting School of Engineering
After Alex Karev passed his boards, he was faced with the difficult decision of taking his pediatric surgical fellowship at Hopkins or Seattle Grace.
Grey's Anatomy
Inaugural Peabody Institute BDP. Research focused at the intersection of music and health, advocating for health policy and safety standards for music students and performing artists, as well as increased specialized training for music educators to integrate research and clinical care for performing artists into education.
Kris Chesky
Ultimate Hopkins benefactor and philanthropist.
Michael Bloomberg
JHU cute avian mascot
Blue Jays
SAIS
School of Advanced International Studies
To keep their conversation light, Leslie Knope talks about how JHU students in the Wolman and McCoy dorms have taken to lofting their beds. When future beau Ben Wyatt asks Leslie if she attended JHU, she awkwardly admits she didn't.
Parks and Recreation
This KABOH BDP is a critical care physician and health services researcher whose research seeks to understand the context of critical illness - they also specialize in sepsis, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest.
Jack Iwashyna
Maryland's current govenor
Wes Moore
JHU university-affiliated research center
Applied Physics Laboratory
JHTV
Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures
JHU served as stand in for Harvard University in David Fincher's drama about undergrad and computer genius Mark Zuckerberg and the early days of Facebook.
The Social Network
Pioneer in the development of small, high performance autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) who has led research expeditions across the globe.
Jim Bellingham
This BDP received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovery of aquaporin proteins, which form the channels that enable water to flow in and out of cells.
Peter Agre
JHU was founded this year
1876
ROSEI
Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute
In this romantic comedy that features many Baltimore locations, Meg Ryan visits her brother, a professor, at his office in the George Peabody Library.
Sleepless in Seattle
Scholar of language and literature and one of the world’s leading experts on 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
Christopher Cannon
Served as the 64th United States secretary of state from 1997 to 2001, under President Clinton. First woman to hold that post.
Madeleine Albright
JHU has two global campuses - name one of those countries.
Italy and China
ICTR
The Institute for Clinical and Translational Research
Mays Gilliam (played by Chris Rock) wants to become president. There's no better way to do this than holding a rally on the steps of Shriver Hall.
Hint: Bernie Mac played his brother, Mitch Gilliam.
Head of State
Internationally renowned observational cosmologist working on the measurement of the expansion of the universe and a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Adam Riess
Brother to American theoretical physicist responsible for atomic bomb.
Frank Oppenheimer
JHU motto "Veritas vos liberabit" translated
"The truth will set you free"