Founded in 1876 as the nation’s first research university, Johns Hopkins University has been advancing knowledge and bringing discoveries to the world for nearly 150 years. The university’s faculty, clinicians, researchers, and students have pioneered historic discoveries—creating water purification, CPR, corrective surgery for infant heart defects, and a deflection technique to protect Earth from the threat of asteroids. Johns Hopkins has championed lifesaving public health interventions like vitamin A and seat belts, authenticated the Dead Sea Scrolls, and explored the farthest reaches of our solar system.