Johns Hopkins University will soon launch a School of Government and Policy as part of its programming at the site of the former Newseum building in D.C.
Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels gives a tour of the university's new complex in the former Newseum building, on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington on Tuesday. , engraved with the text of the First Amendment, that had announced the Newseum. Etched now into a marble facade, with lettering 11 inches tall, is the name of the
Students, not tourists, are flowing in and out of 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW for the first time this fall. The edifice underwent a $275 million renovation after the journalism museumin 2019. Counting the purchase price for the property, the project totaled nearly $650 million for a building with a soaring interior atrium and 420,000 square feet of space. The reopening enables the Baltimore-based research university to expand its presence in Washington through a prime location near the Capitol.
For decades, Hopkins based its international studies graduate program on Massachusetts Avenue NW. Now that has all moved to Pennsylvania Avenue, including a segment of the Berlin Wall displayed in an atrium. The symbol of the Cold War division of Germany echoed an exhibit in the Newseum, now gone, that had centered on other pieces of the famous wall.“You look out the window and you feel like you’re just in the middle of D.C.,” said one of them, Kateryna Halstead, 31, a native of Ukraine.
As of now, about 1,300 graduate students are enrolled in daytime classes at the center and another 1,200 in evening classes. Faculty and staff total another 650. In the spring term, some Hopkins undergraduates will join them. With the Canadian Embassy next door and the National Gallery of Art close by, this academic populace will bring energy and bustle to a stretch of Pennsylvania Avenue that is a short walk from theaters and restaurants of Penn Quarter.
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