Student Wellness
Graduate Student Concerns
Graduate students can contact any of the following individuals confidentially:
- Dan Horn, Assistant Dean for Academic Programs (for Whiting School students) Office of Academic Affairs, Dean's Office, Whiting School of Engineering Email: dhorn1@jhu.edu Phone number: (410) 516-8379
- Anna De Cheke Qualls, Director of Graduate Admissions Graduate Dean's Office, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Email: aqualls@jhu.edu Phone number: (410) 516-7125
- Dorothy Sheppard, Associate Dean of Student life Office of the Dean of Student Life Email: dsheppard@jhu.edu Phone number: (410) 516-4495
Counseling Center
The Johns Hopkins University Counseling Center serves full-time undergraduate and graduate students from the schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering, Nursing, and the Peabody Institute. All of these students are encouraged to utilize the services offered by the Counseling Center. All services are confidential and free of charge.
The Counseling Center offers the following services:
- Counseling
- Groups
- Consultation
- Referral
- Career Decision-Making
Website: http://www.jhu.edu/~ccenter/
Phone number: (410) 516-8278
Location: 358 Garland Hall
Student Health and Wellness Center
The Johns Hopkins University Student Health and Wellness Center exists to affirm the clear role of health and wellness in advancing academics. Our primary mission is to maintain and contribute to a healthy and safe learning environment for the student community in the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Engineering and Nursing. We strive to provide high quality, primary health services to students in an accessible, efficient, and costeffective manner that promotes maximal student confidentiality and respect for individual and cultural differences. As health care providers and partners in an institution that promotes high achievement and optimal wellness, we encourage the student to make informed decisions about health-related concerns and we empower them to be self-directed and well-informed consumers in an everchanging health care system.
Website: http://ww2.jhu.edu/shcenter/
Phone number: (410) 516-8270
Location: AMR2
The Office of Institutional Equity
Disability Services
The Director of ADA Compliance and Disability Services in the Office of Institutional Equity serves as the central point of contact for information on physical and programmatic access, specific accommodations, resolution of complaints and problems, faculty and staff concerns, and identification of available services. In addition, the office can provide training, consultation, and information regarding disability issues. Contact: Peggy Hayeslip, Director Phone number: (410) 516-8949 Graduate students in the Krieger and Whiting Schools can also visit the Disabilities page.
Disrimination/Compliance
- Sexual Harrassment
- Training
- Meditation
As the Director of Equity Compliance and Education in the Office of nstitutional Equity, Caroline Laguerre-Brown is responsible for the investigation and resolution of discrimination complaints received from faculty, staff, and students at Johns Hopkins University. In addition, Ms. Laguerre-Brown provides mediation services for University related issues, as well as, education/training on sexual harassment.
Contact: Caroline Laguerre-Brown, Esq., Director
Phone number: (410) 516-8075
Website: www.jhuaa.org
Phone number (general): (410) 516-8075
Location: Garland Hall, Suite 130
Ralph S. O'Connor Recreation Center
Membership to the O'Connor Recreation Center is open to all faculty, staff, and students of the university. This includes Johns Hopkins University-Homewood, Peabody, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Education, Carey Business School, Bayview Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Hospital, School of Advanced International Study (SAIS), Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and the Applied Physics Lab (APL).
- Gym
- Fitness and weight rooms
- Climbing wall
- Fields
- Tennis courts
- Pool (indoor)
- Experiential education
- Fitness classes (yoga, yogalates, pilates, step aerobics, cardiokickboxing, muscle classes and dance-based classes)
Website: web.jhu.edu/recreation/
Phone number: (410) 516-5229
Location: O'Connor Recreation Center
Campus Ministries
Johns Hopkins University Campus Ministries promotes and supports spiritual development, theological reflections, religious tolerance and social awareness among students, faculty and staff within the university community. At its heart, Campus Ministries is a prophetic and pastoral presence which seeks to enhance the spiritual and ethical educational experience of the whole person mind, body and soul.
Website: www.jhu.edu/~chaplain
Phone number: (410) 261-1880
Location: Bunting/Meyerhoff Interfaith and Community Service Center
Brigid O’Brien
In 2004 and 2005, Brigid O’Brien, a graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, began each day by climbing 100 feet of stairs and scaffolding. It doesn’t sound like typical work for an engineer, but then, O’Brien isn’t your typical engineer. She took a year off from her graduate work to pursue what she describes as, “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity:” working to clean and conserve the 130-year-old La Farge murals in Boston’s famous Trinity Church.
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