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Housing Information

Incoming graduate students in the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering who need housing accommodations while looking for a place to live can contact the Off-Campus Housing Office to obtain information about living in Baltimore. In addition, the Transitional Graduate Housing Program allows students to stay on campus between June and the end of July. This program has very limited availability so students should contact the Office for additional information. Extensive housing information, rental listings are posted at www.jhu.edu/hds/offcampus. The Off-Campus Housing Office can be reached at offcampus@hd.jhu.edu or by calling (410) 516-7961. Our Housing page has extensive resources for new students.

Finding Housing

The following resources are helpful when trying to secure permanent housing near the Homewood Campus:

Before Signing a Lease

Setting up email

Each graduate student is assigned a unique Johns Hopkins Enterprise Directory Login ID (JHED LID), shortly after enrolling at Johns Hopkins University. The JHED LID allows each person to set up a JHU email account and gain access to various campus services. The last four digits of a student's social security number are required in order to set up email.
Website: my.jhu.edu (click on "First Time Logon")

Useful websites

Health Forms

Pre-entrance health forms were mailed out to all incoming graduate students. As of 2009, however, both paper and online forms need to be submitted to the Health and Wellness Center prior to registration. For all students, the paper forms need to be mailed back to the Health and Wellness Center by July 1. New graduate students cannot register online without clearance form the Health and Wellness Center. For further information about health forms and immunization requirements, please visit the Health and Wellness Center.

International Students

Newly enrolling international graduate students are required to arrive at JHU no later than August 26, 2009, a day before the mandatory Graduate Student Orientation. International students will be allowed to enter the U.S. within 30 days before September 2, 2009. If they do not arrive by September 04, 2009 at the latest, international students may not be allowed to enter the U.S. The student will be forced to defer his/her enrollment until the following semester, year, or re-apply, depending on the department's program.

All new international students need to check-in with the Office of International Student and Scholar Services upon arrival. Further information (housing, student organizations, visa process) is also available here.

Campus Map, Safety, Parking and Transportation

Zipcar (Car Sharing) at the Homewood Campus

Finding affordable and convenient on-demand transportation upon arrival can be a challenge. Four Zipcars are be available to students, faculty, staff and neighbors from the Greater Homewood community. Zipcar members pay one simple hourly (or daily) rate that includes gas, insurance, maintenance, a reserved parking space, and 180 free miles per trip. Please visit the JHU Zipcar site for further information and rates.

Registration

New graduate students need to register online between August 24 and September 1. Without clearances from the Health and Wellness Center (all students), Student Health Insurance, Student Accounts and advisors graduate students cannot register. The Registrar's wwebsite iswww.jhu.edu/~registr/.

Tax Information

Graduate students are subject to specific tax filing guidelines by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). As a guide through this process the IRS provides Publication 970, which spells out all tax obligations for students. To obtain further information, please contact the Johns Hopkins University Tax Office at tax@jhu.edu.

Tax Information Sheet for U.S. Citizens and Resident Aliens (pdf)
Tax Information Sheet for Nonresident Aliens (pdf)

Other Graduate Student Services

Services for Graduate Students with Disabilities

Prospective graduate students with a disability who may need accommodations at Johns Hopkins University are urged to contact Student Disability Services now to discuss how the University could provide reasonable and necessary accommodations to you. Satisfaction with your chosen graduate program will depend on many things, including how well the university and the disability services program meet your needs as a student with a disability. Contacts with SDS are strictly confidential and are not shared with the graduate admissions offices. For specific questions, please email or call: studentdisabilityservices@jhu.edu or (410) 516-4720.

Student Organizations

Professional Development

Career Center
The Homewood Campus has a Career Center which has, among other things, a 'Writing your CV' workshop, an 'Academic Job Search for Graduate Students' workshop, workshops on career opportunities outside academia, individual consultation, and on-campus recruiting. There is a section of their website expressly for graduate students.

JHMI Professional Development Office
The East Baltimore Campus has a Professional Development Office with resources such as career panels and speakers, online 'Tools for the Upwardly Mobile Scientist' and guidelines for CVs, letters, networking, and interviewing, individual consultation, and ongoing visits by industry representatives such as McKinsey & Company, Merck, Novartis, and others.

 

 

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Louis Whitcomb
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Louis Whitcomb, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, along with his graduate students and collaborators at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, is developing innovative navigation control software that will maneuver a deep submersible craft, the Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV).
“I build robots that allow us to work in extreme environments—to perform tasks that we humans otherwise cannot do and to go places we otherwise cannot go."
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