Whiting School News
Schulman Receives CAREER Award
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
“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
A team of Johns Hopkins engineers has solved a major stumbling block to growing new blood vessels in a lab. more »
Nguyen Wins CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Vicky Nguyen wins CAREER Award to study the growth and remodeling of collagenous tissues. more »
Sea Level Rise May Hit California Hard
Civil engineering professor Robert Dalrymple chairs an NRC report that predicts a sea level rise in California due to global warming. more »
CBID Students Take Top Prize in 2012 BMEidea Competition
The winning design, Cyropop, is a low-cost device that uses dry ice to treat cervical pre-cancerous lesions in low-resource settings. more »
Diagnosing Fever by a Thread
A new self-test shows promise in diagnosing the underlying cause of fever. more »
Big-Screen Research at Hopkins
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 »
Electric Knifefish Charged with Sixth Sense
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 »
Robots May Fix Satellites in Space
Medical robots may get the new job of fixing NASA's satellites. more >>