students in
more than 60 degree and certificate
programs from five university divisions: Arts and Sciences,
Business, Education, Engineering and Public
Health. Roughly 450 adjunct and full-time faculty teach
there, and dozens of researchers work in its
labs. The campus is also home to 10 stand-alone companies,
research centers and nonprofit
organizations, seven of them having joined the MCC
community in just the past two years.

The campus currently contains 215,000 square feet of
office, education and lab space. The plan
is to expand it to more than 900,000 square feet of
academic, research and corporate space during
the next decade.

In addition to the Montgomery County Campus' 36 acres,
the Johns Hopkins Belward Research
Campus has 108 acres to be developed for research and
education. JHU plans to build nearly 5 million
square feet of research space on the site. The university
has just begun the planningprocess for this
piece of land, which is part of Vision 2030, a plan to
create a 600-acre world-class science community
in the Shady Grove area.

At the 20th anniversary event, President Brody talked
about the campus's strategic position,
located near such high-powered government agencies as the
National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Food and Drug Administration, National
Institutes of Health, NASA and others. He said
that Johns Hopkins and its neighbors must continue to use
the resources that surround them to
effect great change and lead us to new discoveries.

"Johns Hopkins is committed to being the engineer of
innovation and a champion of collaboration
for applied science and medical research in this region,"
he said. "Today, we celebrate 20 years of
growth. We also look to the future. We have the ability and
the opportunity to make the best of what
surrounds us, the largest