{"id":1470,"date":"2009-01-17T14:32:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T19:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2017-05-12T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T19:30:02","slug":"knowledge-world-campaign-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/magazine-archive\/2009\/01\/knowledge-world-campaign-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge for the World Campaign a Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>A Campaign Worth Celebrating<\/h5>\n<p>Bill Ward \u201967, co-chair of the Knowledge for the World Campaign for the Whiting School of Engineering, and Benjamin T. Rome Dean Nick Jones have announced that the Whiting School has exceeded its campaign goal of $160 million, raising a record $162 million as of December 31, 2008. The school\u2019s effort was part of Johns Hopkins\u2019 larger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhu.edu\/~gazette\/2009\/26jan09\/26campaign.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Knowledge for the World Campaign, which raised $3.75 billion<\/a>. Over the course of the campaign, which began in July 2000, more than 7,000 Whiting School alumni, as well as many friends, foundations, and corporations, participated at all levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of my fellow chairs, Gil Decker \u201958 and Kwok Li \u201979, I want to thank each and every one of you who have participated in the campaign,\u201d said Ward. \u201cYou will be hearing more about the many accomplishments of the campaign, and what your support has enabled, but on behalf of the campaign leadership, we could not be more grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is not only about funds raised, but what these funds have allowed, and will allow, the Whiting School to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Knowledge for the World Campaign comes to a close,\u201d said Jones, \u201cI am more excited and optimistic than ever about the future and where the Whiting School is heading. The support and commitment of alumni and friends through the campaign give us the necessary resources to continue to set the pace and be a leading school of engineering in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the campaign, gifts to the Whiting School have provided:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>36 scholarships<\/li>\n<li>19 graduate fellowships<\/li>\n<li>9 full and junior professorships<\/li>\n<li>Collaborative research programs in fields including computational medicine, nanobiotechnology, robotics, alternative energy sources, financial mathematics, and tissue engineering<\/li>\n<li>Support for the construction of the Computational Science and Engineering Building, Charles Commons, and for the renovation of research laboratories across the school<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, the generous gift by Jim Clark to name the Benjamin T. Rome Deanship will allow the Whiting School to make the investments necessary to continue the campaign\u2019s momentum far into the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>A Great Statement of Faith in the Future<\/h5>\n<p>Mentorship, leadership, and education\u2014these three themes were woven into every aspect of the Benjamin T. Rome Deanship Dedication, held on the Homewood campus on October 6, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>More than the formal ceremony during which Nicholas P. Jones was named the inaugural Benjamin T. Rome Dean, the event was a celebration of the Whiting School and the people and relationships that contribute to its success.<\/p>\n<p>University leaders, friends, faculty, students, alumni, and staff from the Whiting School and across Johns Hopkins gathered in the Shriver Hall Auditorium to mark the occasion (the dedication of only the third endowed deanship at Johns Hopkins University), and to pay tribute to the late Benjamin Rome \u201925 and A. James Clark, the individual whose generosity made this possible.<\/p>\n<p>Last spring, Clark, a leading commercial builder, committed $10 million to endow the deanship in honor of his mentor and business colleague Benjamin T. Rome. The gift provides permanent stream of unrestricted support that the school\u2019s deans\u2014present and future\u2014 will be able to invest strategically in faculty, students, and programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an investment in the future of an entire school and produces truly remarkable returns for generations to come,\u201d said Provost Kristina Johnson, adding, \u201cFew gifts make a more profound or lasting difference at a university than the creation of an endowed deanship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much of the ceremony\u2019s focus was on Clark, the important role he has played at the Whiting School of Engineering over the years, and the knowledge and values instilled in him by Ben Rome. \u201cBen Rome was not only my first boss but a wonderful mentor as well,\u201d Clark noted. He added, \u201cI owe much of my success, and the success of our business, to Ben. He was a great friend and teacher, and I am<br \/>\nhonored to be able to memorialize his name at his alma mater.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones expressed his gratitude to Clark and Rome, two individuals who he observed, \u201clived their conviction that acting to help others is quite simply the right thing to do.\u201d Jones also had the opportunity to pay tribute to his mentor, Ross Corotis, explaining that through his relationship with Corotis, he also understands, \u201chow important mentors are and the influence they can have on future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The formal ceremony also included a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZHBzLyPCoo&amp;eurl=http:\/\/engineering.jhu.edu\/alumni-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video paying tribute to Rome<\/a> and was followed by a tented celebration on the quad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Campaign Worth Celebrating Bill Ward \u201967, co-chair of the Knowledge for the World Campaign for the Whiting School of Engineering, and Benjamin T. 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