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Carol Reiley Talks Surgical Robots in MAKE Magazine

Carol Reiley is the first female engineer to grace the cover of this quarterly publication. more >>

Ostermeier Research Cited in Discover Magazine

Marc Ostermeier's work on killing cancer from the inside is cited as a breakthrough finding in Discover Magazine. more >>

Avi Rubin Talks Computer Security at TED

Avi Rubin discusses the latest computer security issues in this TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 talk. more >>

NFL Player Gives Back

Hopkins Engineering's Allison Watts appears on ESPN after receiving a scholarship from NFL wide receiver Braylon Edwards. more >>

Congrats to Our Newest Students!

Congratulations to our admitted, early-decision Class of 2016 members! Join us on Facebook. more >>

Wound-Treating Jelly Aids Skin Repair

A specially designed hydrogel works wonders to re-grow skin in burn patients. more >>

Somnath Ghosh Named Callas Professor

World-class researcher in civil egineering and computational mechanics named Callas Professor. more >>

Robots May Fix Satellites in Space

Medical robots may get the new job of fixing NASA's satellites. more >>

Cyclone Sweeps the Series!

Powered by rubber bands, Walt Mayfield and Khari Douglas' Texas Cyclone wins the annual MechE freshman design competition. more>>

Chesapeake Bay Shows Signs of Rebound

JHU water quality research shows signs of gradual improvement in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. more >>

Prospective students get to know JHU

Annual Overnight and Open House programs help prospective students experience the Homewood campus. more >>

Jhpiego Receives Multi-Year Award for Medical Innovation

A multi-year award expands Hopkins biomedical engineering efforts to save the lives of the world's most vulnerable people. more >>

JHU iGem Team Places in Sweet Sixteen

JHU's iGem team placed in the Sweet Sixteen at MIT's world championship! More on their super-nutritious VitaYeast. more >>

JHU Astrophysicist Wins Nobel Prize

Congratulations to JHU's Adam Riess who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. more >>

Noah Cowan Wins PECASE Award

Noah Cowan receives the PECASE, the highest honor bestowed by the US on scientists and engineers in early stages of their careers. more >>

Protein Switches

Johns Hopkins researchers devise a protein switch that turns cancer cells into tiny chemotherapy factories. more >>

Five Siebel Scholars Named

Five JHU Engineering doctoral students named to the 2012 class of Siebel Scholars will receive $35,000 each to use in their final year of graduate studies. more>>

Digital Waste: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover and Dispose

JHU computer scientists apply real-world trash management tactics to a new era of computer cleansing. more>>

Hurricane Irene: JHU Offers Engineering Experts

From predicting power outages before a hurricane strikes to understanding the damage left in its wake, WSE experts weigh in. more>>

Whiting School Welcome

The Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins introduces our newest five faculty members. more >>

JHU Orientation

Welcome students and parents to Orientation 2011! For all your move-in information, click here. more >>

CBID Students Blog from Asia and Africa

Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design students report from Asia, Africa and India while studying the health needs of the poor. more>>

Spaghetti Bridges Test High School Students

More than 300 students nationwide participate in JHU's Engineering Innovation program, finishing up with this tough task. more >>

“Operation da Vinci” Wows at Film Festival

JHU's whimsical video "Operation da Vinci" wins the Audience Award (by Twitter vote) at first-ever Robot Film Festival. more >>

Hands-On Learning

Students pursue everything from high-octane adventures to understanding the importance of protective football helmets. more >>

You Are What You Tweet

By sifting through busy banter, JHU computer scientists track public health trends. more >>

Device Cuts Risk in Dialysis Treatment

A Hopkins device to cut dialysis risks wins the 2011 ASME Innovation Showcase. more >>

JHU Baja Celebrates Finish

JHU Baja SAE finishes 17th overall in Peoria, the best finish in team history. Check out this super-charged sales presentation video. more >>

A Better Way to Collect Stem Cells

WSE grad students invent a system to boost the number of stem cells collected from a newborn's umbilical cord and placenta. more >>

Adversity is the Great Educator

Jim Pitts, of Northrup Grumman, tells 2011 graduates that adversity brings meaning and challenge. more >>

Spring '11 JHU Engineering Magazine Now Online

The Spring '11 issue of Johns Hopkins Engineering now is available online. Join our conversation. more >>

CBID Students Live on CNN!

Our Whiting School students take to the national airwaves to discuss that promising protein pen! Watch their CNN Interview. more >>

Design Teams Display Inventions

Students display and demonstrate their prototypes, which range from mammoth machines to tiny medical device components. more >>

Engineering for Professionals Offers Free Tuition

Not many schools are advertising free tuition these days. But the Whiting School's Engineering for Professionals is doing just that for Maryland public and private high school STEM teachers. more >>

Jeff Gray Named Hodgson Scholar

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering associate professor Jeffrey Gray is the inaugural F. Stuart Hodgson Faculty Scholar. more >>

Hristova Named Zimmerman Faculty Scholar

Kalina Hristova, associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering, has been named the inaugural Marlin U. Zimmerman Jr. Faculty Scholar. more >>

So You Think Your Robot Can Dance?

On April 16, teams from 35 Maryland middle schools and high schools came to JHU to compete in Robo-Challenge 2011. The day's events included a robot slalom race, mystery maze, "tumor" detection and dance contest. more>>

Undergrads Assess Pregnancy Risks and the Security of Thumb Drives

With Provost's Undergraduate Research Awards, Millie Shah '12 studied the causes of preeclampsia and Greg Vorsanger '12 built an "invisible lock and key" to block unauthorized users of flash drives. more>>

Intuitive Surgical Funds New Fellowship

The Intuitive Surgical Fellowship Fund to support graduate students showing promise in computer-integrated surgery was established in recognition of Professor Russ Taylor's pioneering contributions to robotics. More about surgical robotics at WSE>>

Robot Plays Operation

Surgical robotics is not child's play. But here's a whimsical video looking at its potential to push the frontiers of safe, effective procedures that extend human capabilities. more >>

Why Choose Hopkins Engineering? Five Good Reasons…

Acceptances to the Class of 2015 were mailed! Why should you choose Hopkins Engineering?
We'll give you five good reasons! >>

New Institute Tackles Grand Challenges

University experts join forces to launch the new Johns Hopkins Systems institute to tackle some of the nation's toughest problems. more >>

Class of 2015 Starts to Take Shape

Acceptance emails and envelopes are in the hands of 3,032 potential members of JHU's classof 2015, but that doesn't mean the Office of Undergraduate Admissions is taking it easy...more>>

BME Prof Wins Olympus Leader Award

Soumyadipta Acharya, graduate program director for the Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design, has been named one of the three 2011 winners in the Olympus Innovation Awards Program. more >>

Addressing the Global Water Challenge

Faculty and students from across Johns Hopkins, including Brian Shell '12 (see video), are working to improve the quality and quantity of clean water throughout the world. more >>

CBID Students Get a Boost for “Magic” Marker

A unique WSE partnership, featured in Time Magazine, aims at saving maternal lives with "magic" marker. more>>

Material Scientists Play Key Role in Energy Report

Two Whiting School material scientists play a key role in a US Energy Department report that could be a game-changer in areas of energy efficiency and energy-related businesses.
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Nakata Offers Perspective on Quake

Assistant Professor Narutoshi Nakata, an earthquake expert in civil engineering, offers his perspective on the devastating quake that struck his homeland of Japan. more >>

Russ Taylor Named Inaugural John C. Malone Professor

Russell H. Taylor is named the school's inaugural John C. Malone professor. more >>

Irwin M. Jacobs Delivered Blumenthal Lecture

A dozen engineering students sat down with one of the world's most innovative and successful entrepreneurs, Irwin M. Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego. more >>

Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Health Institute (E2SHI) Launched

Drawing on faculty in environmental science and engineering, public health and other areas, Johns Hopkins has launched E2SHI to promote research and education in topics ranging from green energy and climate change to health. more>>

EP Appoints New Program Chairs

Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals, recognized as one of the nation's leading programs, appoints five new chairs and a vice chair. more >>

Better Turbine Spacing for Large Wind Farms

A study by WSE's Charles Meneveau and a colleague from Belgium devises a new formula for the optimal spacing of turbines in large wind farms. more >>

Building Excitement! WSE Receives its Largest Gift

Alumnus John C. Malone has given WSE $30 million for a building where researchers from across the university will tailor therapies for individual patients and devise systems-based approaches to some of society's biggest problems. more >>

Early Decisions Letters Mailed

The Office of Undergraduate Admissions has sent out early decision acceptance letters to 518 students. more >>

Fall ‘10 JH Engineering Magazine Now Online

The Fall '10 issue of Johns Hopkins Engineering magazine is now available online. more>>

The Model of a Modern University

Watch the 2010 video thank-you (an original and hilarious take on Gilbert & Sullivan) from JHU to the thousands of alumni and friends whose support means so much to Johns Hopkins...more>>

Remembering Charles O’Melia

Charles R. O’Melia, one of the world’s leading water treatment researchers, who also mentored more than 100 environmental engineering graduate students during almost three decades at The Johns Hopkins University, died Dec. 16, at age 76. more >>

Earthquake Experiments

Johns Hopkins researchers have been awarded a three-year $923,000 National Science Foundation grant to study how seismic forces affect buildings as tall as nine stories. more>>

Final Projects Hopkins-Style

In its 9th year, the annual mouse trap and rubber bands vehicle competition serves as the final project for freshman mechanical engineering students. more >>

Electronic Voting Expert Watches US Elections

JHU Information Security Institute Technical Director Avi Rubin watches US elections from abroad, on sabbatical at Tel Aviv University as a Fulbright Scholar. Upon return, Rubin continues work on the security of electronic health records. more >>

Ready, Set, Learn to Love Engineering

Area middle school students learn that engineering is about creativity and real-world problem solving in a program called Ready, Set, Design. more >>

Tech-savvy Barbie Becomes Role Model

With behind-the-scenes help from a Whiting School electrical and computer engineering alum, Computer Engineer Barbie will be available in a few short weeks. more >>

WSE Alum Dazzles Campus With Mathemagic

Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin visited Homewood campus October 7 to lecture, but he squeezed in time for his magic math show. more>>

WSE’s Gracias Eyed for Innovation Awards

An NIH leader points to David Gracias, whose laboratory is working to develop a new class of nano-scale tools for surgery and drug delivery. more >>

Hackerman Hall is Dedicated

Faculty and students explain how Hackerman Hall fosters some of the Whiting School's most dynamic and interdisciplinary research. watch the video>>

Rai Winslow Named Inaugural Raj and Neera Singh Professor

Rai Winslow, professor of Biomedical Engineering, a renowned expert on cardiovascular informatics and modeling, and director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, was named the Raj and Neera Singh Professor on Monday, October 4. More>>

WSE Mourns the Passing of Fred Jelinek

Fred Jelinek, the Julian Sinclair Smith Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the Center for Language and Speech Processing, whose research laid the groundwork for modern speech recognition and text translation technology, died on September 14. JHU Gazette >> Baltimore Sun >>

Dexter Smith to Lead Engineering for Professionals

Dexter Smith, a member of the principal professional staff of JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory, has been appointed the Whiting School's Associate Dean for Engineering for Professionals (EP) programs. More>>

NCI Grant Launches Nanotech Cancer Center

A major $13.6 million grant expands a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and physicians developing nanotechnology-based diagnostic platforms and therapeutic strategies for cancer research. The new center is the Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. more >>

2011 Siebel Scholars Named

Five biomedical engineering PhD students are named prestigious Siebel Scholars for work in areas such as designing high-tech prosthetic hands and converting skill cells into stem cells. more >>

Extreme Computing to Mirror Brain Efficiency

Whiting's Andreas Andreou moderates a discussion that considers computer technologies that mirror the super-efficiency of the human brain. more >>

High-Tech Building Becomes Hackerman Hall

One of Homewood's most popular buildings. known for its mock operating room, becomes Hackerman Hall in recognition of the lifetime philanthropic support of the university and its Whiting School by alumnus Willard Hackerman. more>>

Engineering Design Team Rings Closing Nasdaq Bell

A JHU biomedical engineering design team that developed a system to improve spinal surgery outcomes rang the Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell Aug. 23. Watch the video. Read more >>

Where’s the Oil?

The United States' NOAA says a majority of the oil from the BP spill in the Gulf has been captured or mitigated through the federal response effort. So where did it go? The Whiting School's Ed Bouwer points to microbes and Mother Nature. more >>

Engineers, Not Biologists, Search for Dwarfism Clues in Cells

Kalina Hristova, associate professor of materials science and engineering, looks for clues to dwarfism's cause in the thin protective covering that surrounds human cells. Welcome to the world of membrane biophysics where a rogue protein may be the cause of the condition. more >>

Global Health Project Sends Engineering Students to Africa and Asia

Students from WSE's Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) are in Tanzania, Nepal and India this summer, working with healthcare providers and assessing their needs. After they return, the 15 students will spend the year designing low-cost medical devices that improve maternal and child care. Read about their experiences in Nepal, India and Tanzania.

Hopkins Summer Engineering Program Sparks High Schoolers’ Interest

The Washington Post reports on Engineering Innovation, an intensive summer program for high school students offered nationwide by Johns Hopkins Engineering. More>>

JH Joins Study of Oil Spill’s Impact on Florida Ecosystem

Led by Ed Bouwer, a team of Hopkins researchers is working with the National Aquarium gathering data in Sarasota Bay to determine how contaminates in oil move through the food chain and accumulate in plant and animal tissue. More>>

Students Design Early Labor Detector to Help Prevent Premature Births

A device designed by Biomedical Engineering students to detect contractions with greater accuracy and sensitivity could help alleviate the health concerns and costs associated with preterm births. More>>

Pinpoint Precision: Nanowires Deliver Biochemicals to One Cell Among Many

Biomedical Engineering's Andre Levchenko uses electrical fields to guide and place gold nanowires, each about one-two hundredth the size of a cell, on predetermined spots, each on a single cell. More>>

Eels Inspire Treatment of Spinal Cord Injury

By studying lamprey eels WSE's Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings and research colleagues are developing life-changing therapy to help people with spinal injuries walk again. Watch the video >>

Studying Cells in 3-D to Advance Cancer Research

Studying cell behavior in a 3-D environment has provided Hopkins engineers with some surprising results. It's information that could help prevent cancer's spread. Listen to the interview on WYPR>> More>>

Sparking Fifth-Graders’ Interest in Science

Fifth-graders visit a lab on the Homewood campus as part of a year-long partnership between the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering and a Baltimore City elementary school. More>>

On-Site Analysis by WSE Faculty Ups Oil Spill Estimate

Experts from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, including WSE's Louis Whitcomb, used a remotely-operated vehicle and acoustic technologies to measure flow-rate at the Deepwater Horizon spill--the highest estimate yet. More>>

JHU Design Team Wins BMEidea 2010

A team of Biomedical Engineering students, "Rapid Hypothermia Induction Device," won first prize (and $10,000) in the BMEidea 2010 competition, sponsored by the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. More>>

INBT Welcomes 16 Undergraduate Researchers

JHU's Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) is providing summer research opportunities to 16 of the "best and the brightest" undergraduates from across the country through an NSF-funded program. More>>

Remotely-Operated Underwater Vehicles Assist with Spill Effort

Professor Louis Whitcomb, an expert in underwater robotics, discusses the increasingly important role ROVs play in the oil industry. More>>

“...a kind of Lego set that doesn’t need anyone to play with it.”

Mechanical Engineering's Professor Greg Chirikjian and his quest to build self-replicating robots--featured in the New Scientist. More>>

Student Design Project Improves Quality of Life

A team of Mechanical Engineering seniors designed a mechanized arm for a wheelchair that provides a grateful college-bound teen with independence--and earned the students first place in the Senior Design Day competition. More>>

Gulf Oil Spill: NEW Interview with WSE’s Ed Bouwer

Ed Bouwer, chair of Geography and Environmental Engineering, discusses "Questions and Lessons from the Gulf Oil Spill" on WYPR's Maryland Morning. Listen to the podcast>>

Engineering Design Days Highlight Student Ingenuity

Students in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering presented the results of their year-long design projects at events held on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses. More>>

Biomedical Engineering Design Team Wins Wharton Business Plan Competition

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students who developed a system to improve spinal surgery outcomes in patients with osteoporosis won the $20,000 Grand Prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition. More>>

Undergrads Create Marketing Plan for FBI

Students in the Whiting School of Engineering's Entrepreneurship and Management Program received praise for a semester-long project--creating a collegiate recruitment campaign for the FBI. Read more>>

Hopkins Baja Team Hits the Road (and the Mud and Water)

Undergraduates on the Hopkins Baja team had their best finish ever in Greenville, SC in April...They take to the road to compete in Rochester, NY from June 10 - 13...Watch them in action>>

A Johns Hopkins Legend: Reds Wolman

1924-2010
Remembering Reds: Share your memories here>>
"The Great Meanderer," a video tribute to Reds Wolman. View here>>

Record Number of Students Apply to Johns Hopkins, Acceptance Rate a Record Low

A record-breaking number of people—18,455—applied for undergraduate admission to the schools of Engineering and Arts and Sciences, a 14 percent increase over last year. Acceptance rate falls to 20.4%. Read more>>

BME Design Teams Win Honors in Business Plan Competitions

Three biomedical engineering design teams, Cortical Concepts, CervoCheck and InSpiro, have received honors--and awards--in national business plan competitions. Read more>>

Assessing Damage to Hospitals in Chile

Civil Engineering's Judith Mitrani-Reiser just returned from Chile where she was evaluating the physical and medical performance of public hospitals after the earthquake. Read more>>

Scanning for Skin Cancer: Infrared System Looks for Deadly Melanoma

Mechanical Engineering's Professor Cila Herman and a Hopkins research team developed a noninvasive infrared scanning system to help doctors determine whether pigmented skin growths are benign moles or melanoma. Read more>> Video>>

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