Johns Hopkins Design Days

2013-05-14T20:19:55+00:00

Johns Hopkins engineering students end the year with a flurry of prototypes, medical devices, and other designs. more »

EPA National Sustainable Design Expo

2013-04-22T13:07:17+00:00

Two Johns Hopkins student teams traveled to D.C.'s National Mall last week to show off their “green” ideas at an EPA-sponsored event. more »

Dean Nicholas P. Jones Named Penn State Provost

2013-04-19T15:37:31+00:00

After 25 years with the Whiting School of Engineering, Dean Jones is moving on to an exciting new challenge. more »

Promising Low-Cost “Cooling Cure” for Newborns

2013-03-21T18:27:47+00:00

A Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering undergraduate team has devised a low-tech $40 unit to provide protective cooling. more »

Somnath Ghosh Awarded 2013 ASCE Medal

2013-03-19T17:41:53+00:00

Somnath Ghosh, director of the Computational Mechanics Research Laboratory, receives the Nathan M. Newmark Medal. more »

Computer Model May Help Avoid Brain Damage

2013-03-05T18:43:41+00:00

K.T. Ramesh’s team develops a new technique to determine which jolts, collisions, and awkward movements increase risk of brain damage. more »

Who Will Win the Superbowl?

2013-01-25T17:25:35+00:00

Johns Hopkins math expert Daniel Naiman slices and dices football data to find the answer. more »

Using Tweets to Track the Flu

2013-01-23T21:11:03+00:00

Analyzing up to 5,000 tweets a minute, Johns Hopkins computer scientists estimate the proportion of the U.S. population with the flu. more »

MechE Senior Wins Churchill Scholarship

2013-01-15T15:23:34+00:00

Tiras Lin wins prestigious Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University in England. more »

Schulman Receives CAREER Award

2013-01-04T13:44:38+00:00

Assistant Professor Rebecca Shulman has received a CAREER Award for her work in DNA self-assembly and self-organizing biomaterials. more »

Health-Care Sector Vulnerable to Hackers

2012-12-27T17:59:39+00:00

“I have never seen an industry with more gaping security holes,” says Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute. more »

Steering Stem Cells

2012-12-20T15:39:34+00:00

A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has solved a major stumbling block to growing new blood vessels in a lab. more »

CBID Projects Selected for Tech Funding

2012-12-19T18:47:26+00:00

Maryland corporation established to accelerate commercialization of new technologies awards nearly $300,000 to Johns Hopkins projects. more »

High-Tech Teamwork

2012-12-17T17:31:40+00:00

Scientists seek smoother partnership between humans and robots. more »

Nguyen Wins CAREER Award

2012-12-14T16:28:18+00:00

Assistant Professor Vicky Nguyen wins CAREER Award to study the growth and remodeling of collagenous tissues. more »

No Batteries Required

2012-12-12T14:55:46+00:00

Freshman mechanical engineering course wraps up with annual Mousetraps & Rubber Bands competition. more »

WSE Receives $5.4 Million Gift

2012-12-05T16:42:07+00:00

L. Gordon Croft, a 1956 JHU grad, has made a $5.4 million commitment to the Whiting School of Engineering. more »

FastStitch: The Future of Suture

2012-11-13T20:09:40+00:00

A BME undergraduate team has won the 2012 Collegiate Inventors Competition with a new suturing device. more »

Cancer “Cloud” Could Lead to More Effective Treatment

2012-11-06T17:40:14+00:00

Storing cancer data in the "cloud" could help pave the way for more individualized therapies. more »

Improving Hearing Prosthetics

2012-11-02T16:29:42+00:00

Research offers insight into how the brain processes timbre with findings that may improve hearing prosthetics. more »

The Promise of Computational Medicine

2012-10-31T19:37:20+00:00

A Science Translational Medicine article outlines a new approach to understanding, detecting, and treating disease at the individual level. more »

NSF Selects Fellows for Sustainability Research

2012-10-16T18:45:44+00:00

The National Science Foundation selects two promising WSE postdocs to work on energy-related projects. more »

Shape Matters in DNA Nanoparticle Therapy

2012-10-11T16:39:50+00:00

Researchers discover that the shape of nanoparticles is key to treating cancer and other diseases. more »

Researchers Aim to Boost the Flow of Wind Energy

2012-10-02T17:14:00+00:00

Johns Hopkins researchers lead $6 million, multi-institution effort to boost the intermittent flow of wind energy into the power grid. more »

Melody Swartz Receives MacArthur Fellowship

2012-10-02T14:41:47+00:00

Swartz, who graduated from Hopkins in '91 with a degree in chemical engineering, has won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant. more »

Improving STEM Education in Baltimore City Schools

2012-09-18T20:01:20+00:00

Johns Hopkins researchers launch a $7.4-million program to improve STEM education in nine Baltimore elementary schools. more »

Five JHU Engineering Students Named Siebel Scholars

2012-09-18T16:58:39+00:00

Students recognized for their role in advancing prevention and treatment of cancer, cardiac disorders, and sexually transmitted diseases. more »

The Next Generation of Miltary Aircraft

2012-09-12T19:43:14+00:00

Johns Hopkins researchers establish a new Air Force Center of Excellence on Integrated Materials Modeling (CEIMM). more »

2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award

2012-08-22T18:55:04+00:00

Two members of the WSE faculty, Jaafar El-Awady and Amy Foster, have received the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award. more »

“Provocative Questions” in Cancer Research

2012-08-17T12:54:37+00:00

Peter Searson, professor of materials science and engineering, has been awarded a National Cancer Institute grant for cancer research. more »

Carb Loading

2012-08-01T20:02:29+00:00

High school students from our Engineering Innovation summer program put pasta to the test in our annual Spaghetti Bridge Competition. more »

The Freestyle Square-Off

2012-06-19T20:41:01+00:00

In time for the 2012 Summer Olympics, fluid dynamics expert Rajat Mittal tackles one of swimming’s toughest debates. more »

Tiny ‘Speed Bump’ Device Could Sort Cancer Cells

2012-06-13T13:03:29+00:00

Two Johns Hopkins engineers have found a way to use gravity or simple forces to sort microscopic particles and bits of biological matter. more »

Dalrymple Appointed to Water Institute Advisory Council

2012-06-05T15:12:28+00:00

Civil Engineering Professor Robert Dalrymple was appointed to the Water Institute of the Gulf's science and engineering advisory council. more »

Installation of Edward J. Schaefer Professorship

2012-06-04T12:41:52+00:00

Pablo A. Iglesias will be installed as the Edward J. Schaefer Professor in Electrical Engineering at a dedication ceremony Monday, June 4 more »

CBID Students Take Top Prize in 2012 BMEidea Competition

2012-05-30T15:31:03+00:00

The winning design, Cyropop, is a low-cost device that uses dry ice to treat cervical pre-cancerous lesions in low-resource settings. more »

Groundbreaking of Malone Hall

2012-05-23T12:42:19+00:00

WSE will break ground for Malone Hall, a new engineering building on Homewood Campus, at a ceremony Wednesday, May 23. more »

Russell H. Taylor Named Inaugural John C. Malone Professor

2012-05-23T12:37:38+00:00

John C. Malone will present the named professorship to Taylor at a dedication ceremony Wednesday, May 23. more »

Johns Hopkins University Design Days 2012

2012-05-11T15:38:31+00:00

Trayanova Named Murray B. Sachs Professor

2012-05-03T13:00:03+00:00

Natalia Trayanova has been named the inaugural Murray B. Sachs Professor of Biomedical Engineering. more »

Hermansky Named Smith Professor in Electrical Engineering

2012-04-20T15:24:23+00:00

Hynek Hermansky has been named as the Julian S. Smith Endowed Professorship in Electrical Engineering. more »

Electric Knifefish Charged with Sixth Sense

2012-04-09T16:32:32+00:00

Looking to nature to inform design of underwater robots that travel through murky waters and collect valuable data on coral reefs or oil spills. more »

New Early Warning System for Seizures

2012-04-02T18:32:16+00:00

Sridevi Sarma, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, devises new seizure detection software that could lead to fewer false alarms. more »

Congrats to Margarita Herrera-Alonso on CAREER Award

2012-02-20T15:41:53+00:00

Herrera-Alonso's research aims to better understand the structure and property relationships of new polymers inspired by nature. more »

Biomedical Engineer Wins Sloan Fellowship

2012-02-16T18:15:22+00:00

Feilim Mac Gabhann won a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship for his work to develop new ways to treat major human diseases. more »

A. Prosperetti named to National Academy of Engineering

2012-02-09T20:28:43+00:00

Andrea Prosperetti receives one of engineering's highest distinctions for work in the fundamentals and applications of multiphase flows. more »

Five Siebel Scholars Named

2011-09-19T12:58:44+00:00

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

2011-09-06T13:00:47+00:00

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

CBID Students Blog from Asia and Africa

2011-08-10T14:06:25+00:00

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

Undergrads Assess Pregnancy Risks and the Security of Thumb Drives

2011-04-11T16:50:46+00:00

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>>

Addressing the Global Water Challenge

2011-03-28T15:08:02+00:00

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

2011-03-27T20:43:19+00:00

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

Irwin M. Jacobs to Present Blumenthal Lecture

2011-02-14T17:52:10+00:00

"Innovation Underlying the Exciting World of Wireless: Technology, Devices, Platforms and Applications," a lecture by Irwin Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm, wil be offered Tuesday, March 1 at 4:30 p.m. more information>>

Building Excitement! WSE Receives its Largest Gift

2011-01-09T15:19:34+00:00

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 >>

Fall ‘10 JH Engineering Magazine Now Online

2010-12-27T17:28:36+00:00

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

The Model of a Modern University

2010-12-27T14:02:14+00:00

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>>

Final Projects Hopkins-Style

2010-12-06T15:33:43+00:00

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

Rai Winslow Named Inaugural Raj and Neera Singh Professor

2010-09-20T13:31:38+00:00

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

2010-09-20T13:11:28+00:00

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

2010-09-13T18:52:04+00:00

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>>

Global Health Project Sends Engineering Students to Africa and Asia

2010-08-11T17:04:26+00:00

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

2010-08-02T13:44:51+00:00

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

2010-07-21T14:15:08+00:00

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

2010-07-21T13:27:02+00:00

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

2010-07-09T16:02:52+00:00

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

2010-06-25T16:44:58+00:00

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

2010-06-21T19:38:51+00:00

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

2010-06-21T12:55:48+00:00

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

2010-06-11T15:30:52+00:00

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

2010-06-11T13:09:08+00:00

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

2010-06-10T16:55:36+00:00

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

2010-06-07T15:36:01+00:00

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.”

2010-06-03T16:43:17+00:00

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

2010-05-24T18:22:46+00:00

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

2010-05-21T16:34:03+00:00

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

2010-05-11T18:18:27+00:00

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

2010-05-03T14:00:31+00:00

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

2010-04-28T18:07:01+00:00

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)

2010-04-22T12:59:04+00:00

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

2010-04-12T21:10:20+00:00

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

BME Design Teams Win Honors in Business Plan Competitions

2010-04-12T12:50:59+00:00

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

2010-02-24T19:00:32+00:00

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

2010-02-19T18:25:20+00:00

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>>

JH Engineering Magazine Winter 2010

2010-02-16T19:07:40+00:00

21st-century solutions to our nation's crumbling infrastructure...Engineering undergrads tackling real-world problems...the latest alumni and research news... view the Winter 2010 Johns Hopkins Engineering magazine. More >>

Stressed Nanomaterials Display Unexpected Movement

2010-02-01T16:09:33+00:00

Research by Kevin Hemker, chair and professor of mechanical engineering, demonstrates that under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in tiny spaces. More>>

Art Benjamin, PhD ‘89, on “The Colbert Report”

2010-01-22T16:45:10+00:00

"Mathemagician," Art Benjamin, MS '85, PhD '89, Mathematical Sciences, performed high-speed mental calculations and other math stunts as a guest on "The Colbert Report" on Wed., January 27, 2010. Watch the episode>>

Positive Employment Outlook for JHU Engineers

2010-01-11T13:43:26+00:00

USA Today interviews senior Christopher Hutchens, whose "coursework at Johns Hopkins had prepared him for one of the nation's hottest careers: biomedical engineering." More>>

Biodegradable Nanoparticles Ideal Carrier for Drug Delivery

2010-01-04T16:16:30+00:00

JHU researchers have created biodegradable nanosized particles that can easily slip through the body's sticky and viscous mucus secretions to deliver a sustained-release medication cargo. More>>

Peter Searson and Denis Wirtz Named AAAS Fellows

2010-01-04T15:59:00+00:00

Materials Science and Engineering's Peter Searson and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering's Denis Wirtz are among seven Johns Hopkins researchers elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. More>>

Heart Cells on Lab Chip Display “Nanosense” That Guides Behavior

2009-12-15T21:15:37+00:00

Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers, working with colleagues in Korea, have produced a laboratory chip with nanoscopic grooves and ridges capable of growing cardiac tissue that more closely resembles natural heart muscle. More>>

Mousetraps and Rubber Bands

2009-12-14T17:29:57+00:00

A boisterous crowd gathered to cheer on the entrants in "Plant Your Flag," this year's version of WSE's annual Freshman Experiences in Mechanical Engineering mousetrap-and-rubber-band-powered car tournament. More>>

Cell’s ‘Cap’ of Bundled Fibers Could Yield Clues to Disease

2009-12-02T17:26:12+00:00

Researchers from the JHU Engineering in Oncology Center have shown that in healthy cells, a bundled “cap” of thread-like fibers holds the cell’s nucleus in place. Understanding the cap's influence on cell and nuclear shape could help with the diagnosis and treatment of disease. More>>

Transparent Insulating Film Could Enable Energy-Efficient Displays for E-Books

2009-11-09T15:27:40+00:00

Re-orienting solution-deposited beta-alumina, a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, has enabled Johns Hopkins researchers to create a thin film insulator which blocks the flow of electricity while inducing large electric currents elsewhere. More>>

Seeing Tumors in a New Light

2009-11-04T16:14:30+00:00

Electrical Engineer Jin Kang is building an optical tool for ‘virtual’ biopsies that will help brain surgeons locate and get a clear look at cancerous tissue. More>>

Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center at INBT Announced

2009-10-26T14:31:33+00:00

Researchers from JHU's Institute for NanoBioTechnology have been awarded $14.8 million from the National Cancer Institute to launch a research center aimed at unraveling the physical underpinnings that drive the growth and spread of cancer. More>>

Predicting Hurricane-Related Power Outages

2009-10-21T12:51:56+00:00

Using data from Hurricane Katrina and other destructive storms, JHU's Seth Guikema (Geography and Environmental Engineering) and researchers from Texas A&M say they have found a way to accurately predict power outages in advance of a hurricane. More>>

JHU Receives $20 million NSF Grant for Data Curation and Preservation

2009-10-09T14:57:50+00:00

Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries received a $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build a data research infrastructure to manage the vast amounts of digital information being generated in engineering and science research. More>>

Michael Bloomberg ‘64 Receives 2009 Lasker Public Service Award

2009-09-15T13:21:25+00:00

Michael Bloomberg, New York City Mayor and '64 graduate of Johns Hopkins Engineering, was recognized for "relentlessly translating knowledge about public health into bold government action" with the Lasker Public Service Award. Read more>>

Inauguration of Ronald J. Daniels, the Fourteenth President of The Johns Hopkins University

2009-09-08T15:45:47+00:00

Ronald J. Daniels was installed as Johns Hopkins University's fourteenth president on September 13, 2009. Watch a replay of his inaugural address>>

Computational Process Zones in on Cancer Suspects

2009-09-01T13:18:39+00:00

Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the DNA changes that are most likely to promote cancer. More>>

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