Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering

Johns Hopkins this month has launched its $4.5 billion fundraising campaign, the institution's largest-ever capital campaign. more »

Swarms of untethered "grippers" offer a new approach to conducting biopsies that could provide a way to treat early disease. more »

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 »

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

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

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

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

Jin U. Kang has been named the Jacob Suter Jammer Professor of Electrical Engineering. more »

Honggang Cui receives NSF CAREER Award for work on cancer-fighting nano-sized structures. more »

Assistant Professor Mark Foster receives a CAREER award to develop a high-speed imaging system with a wide range of applications. more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists seek smoother partnership between humans and robots. more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Research at WSE could lead to a new type of diagnostic imaging technology to seek cancer, arthritis and other disorders. more »

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

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

Hopkins Engineering students blog from Asia and Africa as they study world's pressing health care needs. more »

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

Sri Sarma receives the PECASE, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. on scientists and engineers in early stages of their careers. more »

An undergraduate biomedical device wins $250,000 for its potential to screen women and children for anemia. more »

Civil engineering professor Robert Dalrymple chairs an NRC report that predicts a sea level rise in California due to global warming. more »

A single protein molecule may hold the key to new treatments for heart attack patients. more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assistant Professor Danielle Tarraf wins teaching award. more »

A new self-test shows promise in diagnosing the underlying cause of fever. more »

Previously unknown properties of a common memory material pave the way for new forms of memory drives, movie discs and computer
systems. more »

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

The Annual Homewood Schools Scholarship Lunch features the stories of several undergraduate recipients. more »

WSE engineering students won in two of three categories at this year's JHU Business Plan Competition! more »

Tired and muddy, Hopkins Baja Team members returned home after their best finish ever, ninth in the 2012 SAE Auburn Event! more »

The Department of Computer Science is developing "the drafting table of this century," a 12-by-7-foot video display with motion-sensing controls. more »

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

David Gracias pioneers self-assembling 3-D micro and nanoscale structures that promise to revolutionize medicine. more »

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 »

Mounya Elhilali and Mark Foster receive awards from one of the most selective scientific research advancement programs. more»

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

David Gracias explains gluing nanoparticles to bacteria, moving toward bacteria that one day might deliver medical packages to living cells. more »

BME undergrads demonstrate an integrated bunch biopsy for skin cancer diagnosis at the annual NCIIA's Open Minds Exhibition. Check out their medGadget interview and video. more »

Letters are printed, mailing bins are ready...On Thursday, March 29, all undergrad admissions decision letters will be mailed. more »

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

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

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

Guikema's work focuses on improving the reliability and sustainablity of power and water systems. more »

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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>>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 >>