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10/28/06 10:44 pm - Inspiration Hopkins
We face new challenges.
-We live, for instance, in a new world where old assumptions no longer apply, where old theories of international relations and strategies of world leadership no longer suffice. Johns Hopkins must help replace them.
-We live in a new world where, suddenly, neither competition nor collaboration is constrained by borders or oceans. Johns Hopkins must help promote new approaches to the pursuit of prosperity and new protocols for assisting economies not yet ready for the global marketplace.
-We live in a new world where disease and suffering are no longer merely local or even regional problems, but global ones. Johns Hopkins must help alleviate them.
And we face new opportunities.
-We live in a new world where increasingly sophisticated understanding of life and genetics reveals the possibility that heretofore intractable disease may be not only curable but also preventable. Johns Hopkins must help make that happen.
-We live in a new world where the answers to our most persistent questions are no longer to be found just on lab benches and in live experiments. They lie hidden in terabytes of accumulated data, or wait to be unearthed through the manipulation of mathematical models. Johns Hopkins must advance the application of computational science to humanitys most pressing problems.
-We live in a new world where we stand to reap almost unthinkably large benefits from the exploration of the almost immeasurably small. Johns Hopkins must be a leader in nanobiotechnology.
-We live in a new world where the Johns Hopkins graduate -- not only intelligent and educated, but passionate, committed, creative, imaginative and industrious -- can have an impact that is deeper, broader and more enduring than ever before. Johns Hopkins must ensure that its graduates are even better prepared for the opportunity to make a difference.
These changes -- and many more -- demand that we not take the easy way out. They mandate that we press on, that we redefine success. That we take every opportunity to put our knowledge to work for the good of the world and of humanity.
-We live, for instance, in a new world where old assumptions no longer apply, where old theories of international relations and strategies of world leadership no longer suffice. Johns Hopkins must help replace them.
-We live in a new world where, suddenly, neither competition nor collaboration is constrained by borders or oceans. Johns Hopkins must help promote new approaches to the pursuit of prosperity and new protocols for assisting economies not yet ready for the global marketplace.
-We live in a new world where disease and suffering are no longer merely local or even regional problems, but global ones. Johns Hopkins must help alleviate them.
And we face new opportunities.
-We live in a new world where increasingly sophisticated understanding of life and genetics reveals the possibility that heretofore intractable disease may be not only curable but also preventable. Johns Hopkins must help make that happen.
-We live in a new world where the answers to our most persistent questions are no longer to be found just on lab benches and in live experiments. They lie hidden in terabytes of accumulated data, or wait to be unearthed through the manipulation of mathematical models. Johns Hopkins must advance the application of computational science to humanitys most pressing problems.
-We live in a new world where we stand to reap almost unthinkably large benefits from the exploration of the almost immeasurably small. Johns Hopkins must be a leader in nanobiotechnology.
-We live in a new world where the Johns Hopkins graduate -- not only intelligent and educated, but passionate, committed, creative, imaginative and industrious -- can have an impact that is deeper, broader and more enduring than ever before. Johns Hopkins must ensure that its graduates are even better prepared for the opportunity to make a difference.
These changes -- and many more -- demand that we not take the easy way out. They mandate that we press on, that we redefine success. That we take every opportunity to put our knowledge to work for the good of the world and of humanity.
