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44-499: (Redirected from Ron Daniels ) Ronald or Ron Daniels may refer to: Ronald J. Daniels , president of the Johns Hopkins University Ronald Daniels (politician) , former U.S. presidential candidate Ron Daniels (director) , theatre and opera director See also [ edit ] Ronald Daniel (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

88-594: A "big institution pushing out a vulnerable community for its benefit" by city activists and academics. In 2018, thousands of students called on Johns Hopkins University to end their million dollar contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through teach-ins, protests, a petition, and a sit-in and occupation of Garland Hall in tandem with calls to cancel the Johns Hopkins Police Department. After these protests, Johns Hopkins University cancelled their contracts with ICE in 2019, however

132-442: A PhD innovation fund, as well as a movement to collect and analyze data on PhD program performance. In a US News article, Daniels stated that Johns Hopkins would "open [its] doors not to students whose parents can cut the check, but to those who can do the work and benefit from the opportunities we offer". He maintains that the cost of college should not be a deciding factor in receiving a proper liberal arts education , and that it

176-620: A STEM Center and a combination of 100 huddle, conference and auditorium breakout rooms. APL hired its first full-time sustainability manager in 2022. APL is also home to a Johns Hopkins graduate program in engineering and applied sciences, called Engineering for Professionals. Courses are taught at seven locations in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area , including the APL Education Center. APL's STEM includes several internships and programs, including

220-611: A student government poll, 75% of JHU's undergraduate student body. Ultimately, the Maryland General Assembly gave approval to Hopkins to form the force in April, 2019. Following the vote, student protesters occupied Garland Hall, the administration building of JHU's Homewood Campus for over a month, eventually locking Daniels and other administrators out of the building. Following the lockout, Daniels announced students that did not leave peacefully risked suspension or expulsion from

264-485: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ronald J. Daniels Daniels received a Bachelor of Arts in 1982 and a Juris Doctor in 1986, both from the University of Toronto . He received a Master of Laws from Yale University in 1988. Daniels was provost and professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania and dean and James M. Tory Professor of Law at

308-494: Is the duty of the institution, whether it be a private or public university, to ensure that. For the past decade, he has roughly increased the financial aid budget of the school by 10 percent each year. In 2017, he and his wife Joanne Rosen have announced the founding of the Daniels–Rosen First Generation Scholars Fund for Johns Hopkins undergraduates, which is a $ 1 million endowment for those who are

352-451: Is the nation's largest UARC . The lab serves as a technical resource for the Department of Defense , NASA , and other government agencies. APL has developed numerous systems and technologies in the areas of air and missile defense, surface and undersea naval warfare, computer security , and space science and spacecraft construction. While APL provides research and engineering services to

396-745: The Baltimore community. In March 2015, Daniels released the first Ten by Twenty progress report. At the same time, he announced the launch of the Johns Hopkins Idea Lab, a source of crowdsourcing initiatives from the Johns Hopkins community. The Idea Lab was inspired by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory 's Ignition Grants. Winners of the Idea Lab competition win $ 20,000 to support their initiative. Daniels serves as

440-514: The Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area , including the APL Education Center. APL was created in 1942 during World War II under the Office of Scientific Research and Development's Section T as part of the Government's effort to mobilize the nation's science and engineering expertise within its universities. Its founding director was Merle Anthony Tuve , who led Section T throughout the war. Section T

484-651: The Discovery Program to solicit competing proposals for other missions. In 2019, the APL-proposed Dragonfly mission was selected as the fourth NASA New Frontiers mission . Dragonfly is a relocatable lander in an X8 octocopter configuration that will explore Saturn's moon Titan by flying between landing sites to move around the moon's surface. In November 2021, APL launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which struck

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528-829: The Middle East neighborhood, adjacent to Hopkins' downtown hospital campus. Alluding to the central importance of the project to his presidency, Daniels said "If EBDI fails, then my presidency at Hopkins fails." The redevelopment has been praised by some in Baltimore, and counts as partners the State of Maryland , the City of Baltimore, the Annie E. Casey Foundation , the Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation , Atlantic Philanthropies and others. The EBDI has also been criticized as gentrification and an example of

572-767: The Missile Defense Agency , the Department of Homeland Security , intelligence agencies, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ), and others. The Laboratory supports NASA through space science, spacecraft design and fabrication, and mission operations. APL has made significant contributions in the areas of air defense, strike and power projection, submarine security, antisubmarine warfare, strategic systems evaluation, command and control, distributed information and display systems, sensors, information processing, and space systems. APL has built and operated many spacecraft, including

616-669: The Transit navigation system, Geosat , ACE , TIMED , CONTOUR , MESSENGER , Van Allen Probes , the New Horizons mission to Pluto , the Parker Solar Probe mission to the outer corona of the Sun, and STEREO . In the early 1990s APL began building robotic space probes . It won the contract to build NEAR for one third the price that Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA's traditional supplier, estimated. APL's bid caused NASA to create

660-497: The University of Toronto , where he was editor in chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review . He was also a visiting professor and Coca-Cola World Fellow at Yale Law School , as well as a John M. Olin Visiting Fellow at Cornell Law School . He received a Carnegie Corporation of New York Academic Leadership Award in 2015. He has advised several Canadian governments on a range of policy issues, including chairing

704-613: The "Forest Grove Station," north of Silver Spring on Georgia Avenue near today's Forest Glen Metro , which included a hypersonic wind tunnel. The Forest Grove Station was vacated and torn down in 1963 and flight simulations were moved to Laurel. In the 1960s, APL built a mobile automaton called the Johns Hopkins Beast . The Laboratory's name comes from its origins in World War II, but APL's major strengths are systems engineering and technology application. More than three-quarters of

748-697: The Johns Hopkins Precision Medicine Analytics Platform (PMAP), the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, and the recently announced partnership among the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Bloomberg Philanthropies, and The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute. Throughout his time at Johns Hopkins, Daniels has also founded the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs,

792-618: The Lab's 12 mission areas, that focus on solving complex research, engineering and analytical problems that present critical challenges to the United States. Projects span from those in APL's more traditional areas of work, including air and missile defense, undersea warfare, to newer projects such as homeland security, artificial intelligence and cyber operations. The U.S. Navy continues to be APL's primary long-term sponsor. The Laboratory performs work for

836-678: The Maryland MESA program, which is an after-school program for students in grades 3-12; APL STEM in the Community, which focuses on STEM community outreach; the STEM Academy, which is an after-school course program for middle and high school students (grades 8-12); and APL's Student Program to Inspire, Relate and Enrich (ASPIRE), which allows high school juniors and seniors to experience and explore STEM careers before college. As of APL's 80th anniversary in 2022, there were hundreds of projects spanning

880-951: The Ontario Panel of the Future of Government, the Market Design Committee (defining market structure of new competitive electricity markets in Ontario ), and the Ontario Government Task Force on Securities Regulation and the Reform of Accounting Standards; he also served on the Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance in Canada. Since March 1, 2009, Daniels has served as the 14th president of The Johns Hopkins University . As president, Daniels has continued

924-872: The US Army contracted with APL to develop and implement a test and evaluation program for the Pershing missile systems. APL developed the Pershing Operational Test Program (OTP), provided technical support to the Pershing Operational Test Unit (POTU), identified problem areas and improved the performance and survivability of the Pershing systems. The modern Applied Physics Laboratory is located in Laurel, Maryland , and spans 461 acres with more than 30 buildings on site. Additional auxiliary campuses exist in

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968-654: The University continued to maintain the Laboratory as a public service. APL was originally located in Silver Spring, Maryland in a used-car garage at the Wolfe Building at 8621 Georgia Avenue. APL began moving to Laurel in 1954, with the construction of a two million dollar building and a $ 700,000 wing expansion in 1956. The final staff transitioned to the new facility in 1975. Before moving to Laurel, APL also maintained

1012-468: The University has drawn criticism for opening three new contracts with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) afterwards. In 2018, citing the "brazenness" of crime in Baltimore , Daniels appealed to Maryland's legislature to give Johns Hopkins the power to create a police force of its own to patrol its campus. A community consultation process was conducted in Fall of 2018, after a first attempt to pass it through

1056-728: The William H. Miller Department of Philosophy, the Bloomberg American Health Initiative, and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship . The Bloomberg Distinguished Professors program recruits 50 scholars from around the world who are experts in their field to hold joint appointments in two or more departments of the university. In addition, Daniels founded the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute which aims to discuss

1100-574: The chair of the executive committee of Johns Hopkins Medicine – the entity linking the Johns Hopkins Health System and the university’s School of Medicine . He has worked closely with health system leadership through several strategic acquisitions and partnerships across health-related industry sectors. Daniels has made attempts to strengthen Johns Hopkins' ties to Baltimore with programs such as HopkinsLocal, which hired hundreds of employees from within economically deprived neighborhoods in

1144-590: The city. The University has partnered with several city schools, and helped create the Henderson-Hopkins elementary/middle school, the first new school in East Baltimore built in 20 years. Daniels also secured funding for the renovation of the historic Parkway Theater in the Station North area of the city. Daniels has begun several initiatives focusing on interdisciplinary research and innovation; including

1188-582: The congressional chair of the Committee on The Next Generation Initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine . In 2022, Daniels was named the chair of the Israel Democracy Institute's International Advisory Council. One of Daniels' major initiatives has been the controversial $ 1.8 billion, 88-acre East Baltimore Development Initiative (EBDI), a redevelopment of

1232-575: The first in their families to attend college. To further champion his efforts in reducing barriers for minorities and kids from poorer communities, Daniels has switched the admissions process of the university to become need-blind and not consider legacy, because "legacy students at these schools are more likely to be wealthy and white than non-legacy students, the very existence of legacy preferences limits access for high-achieving low- and middle-income students, and also for African American, Latino, and Native American students". In December 2016, Daniels

1276-509: The fuze's success, the APL created the MK 57 gun director in 1944. Pleased with the APL's work, the Navy then tasked it with the mission to find a way to negate guided missile threats. From there on, the APL became very involved in wartime research. Expected to disband at the end of the war, APL instead became heavily involved in the development of guided missile technology for the Navy. At governmental request,

1320-436: The government, it is not a traditional defense contractor , as it is a UARC and a division of Johns Hopkins University. APL is a scientific and engineering research and development division, rather than an academic division, of Johns Hopkins. Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering offers part-time graduate programs for Lab staff members through its Engineering for Professionals program. Courses are taught at seven locations in

1364-503: The legislature stalled. Daniels made door-to-door visits in East Baltimore, canvassing for the plan and seeking input from people in the neighborhood. Creation of a Hopkins police force received the support of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan , then-Mayor Catherine Pugh and Hopkins alumnus Michael Bloomberg , among others. However, support among neighborhood associations was divided, and the bill received criticism from activists, including 90 university professors at Hopkins and, according to

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1408-537: The need for institutional support of local economies, public versus private universities, and the role of humanities in education and society. Applied Physics Laboratory The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (or simply Applied Physics Laboratory , or APL ) is a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center (UARC) in Howard County, Maryland . It is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University and employs 8,700 people as of 2024. APL

1452-541: The need for universities to play a larger role in teaching students how to properly uphold their democratic duties, and increase the emphasis on civic education engagement and dialogue. Another focus of Daniels' has been in strengthening the graduate, specifically PhD programs , at the university. Under the Gateway Science Initiative, Daniels established the first university-wide board to advocate for and support PhD programs. Furthermore, Daniels has created

1496-566: The proposed Johns Hopkins Police Department and the Baltimore City Police Department. Johns Hopkins moved the town halls to an online-only format after these protests. Daniels’ writing is interdisciplinary, combining the fields of law, economics, development and public policy. Much of his recent work concerns life-science research in America and the role of research universities in liberal democracies. Additionally, he writes about

1540-441: The prosthetics to move in conjunction with the amputee's body. Similar technology was used in 2016 for a demonstration in which a paralyzed man was able to "fist-bump" Barack Obama using signals sent from an implanted brain chip . The limb returned sensory feedback from the arm to the wearer's brain. In 2023, APL announced that researchers have developed one of the world's smallest, most intense and fastest refrigeration devices,

1584-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ronald_Daniels&oldid=1244693012 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1628-652: The smaller body of a binary asteroid system in September 2022 and was the first NASA planetary defense mission. The asteroid 132524 APL was named in honor of APL after a flyby by the New Horizons spacecraft. In 2014, APL made history with the successful use of the Modular Prosthetic Limb — a fully artificial articulated arm and hand — by a bilateral shoulder-level amputee . APL used pattern recognition algorithms to track which muscles were contracting and enable

1672-724: The staff are technical professionals, and 25% have computer science and math degrees. APL conducts programs in fundamental and applied research; exploratory and advanced development; test and evaluation; and systems engineering and integration. During the 1950s and the 1960s APL worked with the US Navy in the Operation Bumblebee Program on the Talos missile , Tartar missile , Terrier, and RIM-2 Terrier Surface to Air Missile systems. The follow-on RIM-50 Typhon Missile Project, based on improved Talos and Tartar Missiles, while successful,

1716-439: The surrounding areas. The campus includes multiple cutting-edge innovation and collaboration spaces as well as state-of-the-art labs and test facilities. In 2021, APL opened an interdisciplinary research center, known as Building 201, with 263,000 square feet of space, a 200-person auditorium and more than 90,000 square feet of specialized laboratory space. The building also includes a four-story atrium filled with natural light,

1760-572: The university's 38-year legacy of having the most federal research funding in the country. In 2013, Daniels announced the creation of "Ten by Twenty", the university's first comprehensive strategic plan, setting goals for the school through 2020. His Rising to the Challenge campaign, costing $ 6 billion and ending in 2018, emphasized Daniels' three overarching themes - increasing interdisciplinary collaborative research and innovation, enhancing individual student excellence, and larger social involvement within

1804-414: The university. Finally, on May 8, the protesters were removed and arrested (though not prosecuted) by Baltimore City Police . Activism and resistance to the implementation of a private police force by Johns Hopkins University continued in 2022, where students, activists, and community members protested two town halls with the stated purpose of soliciting feedback on the memorandum of understanding between

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1848-479: Was cancelled in 1963 due to high costs and was eventually developed into the now well-known Aegis Combat System based on an improved Terrier. In 1990, APL became involved with Operation Desert Storm and was involved in the Gulf Crisis Room among other efforts. In the same decade (1992), APL, along with Johns Hopkins University, developed an algorithm that allowed for automatic mammogram analysis. In 1965,

1892-475: Was created on August 17, 1940. According to the official history of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Scientists Against Time , APL was the name of Section T's main laboratory from 1942 onward, not the name of the organization overall. Section T's Applied Physics Laboratory succeeded in developing the variable-time proximity fuze that played a significant role in the Allied victory. In response to

1936-633: Was invested into the Order of Canada at the grade of Member. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2018 and is also a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . In 2014, Daniels was awarded degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa , at the University of Toronto. Daniels is a member of the Board of Directors of BridgeBio Pharma Inc. In 2018, Daniels served as

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