Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
More than 100 Baltimore City Public middle and high school students will compete in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the first Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, in the Newton White Athletic Center on The Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus.
May 1, 2013 Tags: Baltimore City Schools, Hopkins Robotics Cup, Robotics, robotics competition, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
Sudoku has become a worldwide craze, with everyone from middle school students to grandmothers sitting down with sharpened pencil and a puzzle several times a week. Many of the newspapers and magazines that publish Sudoku assure readers that the puzzles have nothing to do with mathematics. But that is simply not true, according to a James Madison University mathematics professor who is coming to Johns Hopkins University in early March to deliver a lecture on that topic.
February 25, 2013 Tags: applied mathematics, logic, number theory, Sudoku, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Tiras Lin, a Johns Hopkins University senior from San Rafael, Calif., has been selected as a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.
January 24, 2013 Tags: Churchill Scholarship, scholarships, Tiras Lin, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News
Ten Johns Hopkins University mathematicians have been named Fellows of the American Mathematical Society for 2013, the program’s first year. The designation recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to the creation, exposition, advancement, communication and utilization of mathematics.
November 27, 2012 Tags: AMS, Bernard Shiffman, Christopher D. Sogge, Edward Sheinerman, Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, J. Michael Boardman, Joel Spruck, Johns Hopkins University, Jun-Ichi Igusa, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Steven M. Zucker, Takashi Ono, W. Stephen Wilson, Whiting School of Engineering, William P. Minicozzi II
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, University-Related
By advancing our understanding of how the brain is able to recognize musical sounds, engineers at The Johns Hopkins University could help the makers of hearing aids and cochlear implants do a better job filling the sounds of silence.
November 2, 2012 Tags: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Mounya Elhilali, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
Supported by a five-year $7.4 million National Science Foundation grant, experts at The Johns Hopkins University are partnering with teachers and administrators in Baltimore City Public Schools on a program to enhance teaching and learning in science, technology, engineering and math in city elementary schools by making STEM a community affair. The program, called STEM Achievement in Baltimore Elementary Schools – SABES for short — not only will benefit more than 1,600 students in grades three through five in nine city elementary schools, but could also become a national model for science, technology, engineering and math education.
September 25, 2012 Tags: Baltimore City Public School System, City Schools, Engineering, Greater Homewood, Highlandtown/Greektown, Johns Hopkins-Baltimore City Public Schools partnership, Katya Denisova, Lower Park Heights, Maryland Science Center, mathematics, Michael Falk, National Aquarium in Baltimore, National Science Foundation, Ronald J. Daniels, SABES, Science, STEM education, Technology, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Education/K-12, Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Social Sciences, Technology, University-Related
Remember those eye-popping posters with the neon colors and bold type that promoted 1960s and 1970s concerts of such music greats as James Brown, Etta James, B.B. King and Otis Redding? Well, they’re back, this time to educate students about the importance of safety when working in research laboratories.
August 30, 2012 Tags: Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
Three engineering experts at Johns Hopkins University can talk about how the storm could cause coastal damage and power outages, and affect hospital functionality.
August 27, 2012 Tags: civil engineering, coastal damage, coastal erosion, Dennice Gayme, hospital functionality, hurricane, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, mechanical engineering, power grid, Robert A. Dalrymple, structural engineering, tropical storm, Tropical Storm Isaac, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Environment
On Friday, July 27, about 120 high school students, grouped in teams of three or four, will compete at the Homewood campus in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, marking the culmination of a four-week summer course called Engineering Innovation. Using only uncooked spaghetti and epoxy, the students have constructed bridges that they will test in the contest. More weight will be added to each structure until the pasta bridge breaks. Prizes will be awarded to the teams whose bridges hold the most weight.
July 25, 2012 Tags: Engineering Innovation, high school engineering class, spaghetti bridge, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, Technology
Joshua G. McIntosh, an experienced administrator who has devoted his career to enriching all aspects of university student life, has been named Dean of Academic Services at The Johns Hopkins University. McIntosh, currently associate dean at Harvard University’s Harvard College, will join Johns Hopkins in the newly created post on August 6.
July 10, 2012 Tags: Appalachian State University, Dean of Academic Services, Harvard University, Joshua G. McIntosh, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Sarah B. Steinberg, Susan Boswell, Syracuse University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Uncategorized, University Administration, University-Related
On Wednesday, May 23, the university’s Whiting School of Engineering will break ground for Malone Hall, a state-of-the-art, 69,000-square-foot research center named in honor of John C. Malone, a pioneer in the communications and media industries.
May 21, 2012 Tags: ground breaking ceremony, John Malone, Malone Hall, Russell Taylor, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Students dreaming of careers searching for life on other planets or monitoring global climate change remotely from satellites will be interested in a new interdisciplinary minor being offered at The Johns Hopkins University. Accessed through the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, the new space science and engineering minor is designed to prepare students to enter careers in the aerospace industry or professional laboratories, or to enter graduate programs.
February 28, 2012 Tags: aerospace, aerospace industry, APL, Applied Physics Laboratory, Charles L. Bennett, H. Warren Moos, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Homewood Academic Council, Jessica Noviello, Joseph Katz, Krieger School of Arts and Science, satellites, space science and engineering minor, Space Telescope Science Institute, Stephen Murray, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Student-Related News, University-Related
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time stand still — at least when it comes to the yearly calendar. Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, Richard Conn Henry, an astrophysicist in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Steve H. Hanke, an applied economist in the Whiting School of Engineering, have created a new calendar in which each new 12-month period is identical to the one which came before, and remains that way from one year to the next in perpetuity.
December 27, 2011 Tags: calendar reform, day count, Gregorian calendar, Hanke-Henry Permanent Calender, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Richard Conn Henry, Steve H. Hanke, The Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Business and Economics, Engineering, Government and Politics, Homewood Campus News, International Affairs, Physics and Astronomy
Financed by a $1.2 million National Science Foundation grant, one of the world’s fastest and most advanced scientific computer networks—one capable of transferring in and out of The Johns Hopkins University per day the amount of data equivalent to 80 million file cabinets filled with text—will be built on the university’s Homewood campus, with support from the University of Maryland, College Park.
November 7, 2011 Tags: Alexander Szalay, astrophysics, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, College Park, computer science, Data-Scope, datasets, genomics, Homewood High-Performance Computing Cluster, Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, Jonathan Bagger, large-scale computations, Mark Robbins, medical research, National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, petabytes, physics, San Diego Supercomputer Center, scientific computer network, turbulence, U.S. Senatory Barbara Mikulski, University of Maryland, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Social Sciences
Five Johns Hopkins graduate students who are applying the latest advances in biology and technology to the prevention and treatment of health problems such as cancer and brain disorders, have been named to the 2012 class of Siebel Scholars. The merit-based program provides $35,000 to each student for use in his or her final year of graduate studies.
September 21, 2011 Tags: bioengineering, biomedical engineering, chemical and biomolecular engineering, engineering education, Siebel Scholar, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Student-Related News, Technology
On Friday, July 29, high school students from Maryland and elsewhere will use their engineering skills to test bridges they’ve constructed using only uncooked spaghetti and epoxy glue. During the event, 25 groups of three to four students will compete to see which bridge can hold the most weight without breaking.
July 27, 2011 Tags: engineering education, Johns Hopkins Engineering, spaghetti bridge, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded a $1.054 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to renew the Heritage Science for Conservation (HSC) Project. The project, which serves as a bridge between the art and science of conservation, is based in the Libraries’ Department of Conservation and Preservation and is run in close collaboration with the Whiting School of Engineering.
July 21, 2011 Tags: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Canadian Conservation Institute, george Peabody Library, Heritage Science Conservation Project, Johns Hopkins Museums, Johns Hopkins University, Sheridan Libraries, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Institutional News
The Johns Hopkins University’s Engineering for Professionals program, part of the Whiting School of Engineering, is offering a new concentration in the field of human systems engineering. The concentration, a new option in the part-time master’s degree program in systems engineering, will be available beginning in fall 2011.
June 15, 2011 Tags: Engineering for Professionals, human systems engineering, Johns Hopkins Engineering, systems engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology, Uncategorized
It seems perfectly natural to expect that two motorists who depart from the same location and follow the same directions will end up at the same destination. But according to a Johns Hopkins University mathematical physicist, this is not true when the “directions” are provided by a turbulent fluid flow, such as you find in a churning river or stream. Verifying earlier theoretical predictions, Gregory Eyink’s computer experiments reveal that, in principle, two identical small beads dropped into the same turbulent flow at precisely the same starting location will end up in different – and entirely random – destinations. An article about the phenomenon appears in a recent issue of Physical Review E.
June 1, 2011 Tags: Alexander Szalay, applied mathematics and statistics, Charles Meneveau, computer experiments, Gregory Eyink, Hannes Alfvéen, Krieger School of Arts and Science, National Science Foundation, Randal Burns, spontaneous stochasticity, turbulence, virtual streams, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News
A new Johns Hopkins institute, opening today, will bring together the university’s experts in engineering, medicine, public health, the social and physical sciences, education and other fields to solve tough national-scale problems that require a multidisciplinary approach.
April 4, 2011 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, systems engineering, Systems Institute, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Business and Economics, Education/K-12, Engineering, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology
Liberty Media Corp. chairman and Johns Hopkins alumnus John C. Malone has given the university’s Whiting School of Engineering $30 million for a new research building to be built on the Homewood campus.
January 3, 2011 Tags: Homewood campus, John C. Malone, Nicholas Jones, Ronald J. Daniels, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, University-Related
Before the program ended on September 30, Johns Hopkins received $260 million in National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation research grants through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, also known as the federal stimulus act or ARRA.
December 6, 2010 Tags: ALS, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, APL, Applied Physics Lab, ARRA, cocktail party effect, federal stimulus act, global climate change, Jeffrey Rothstein, Lloyd Minor, Mounya Elhilali, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, ocean circulation, ocean currents, Robert Moffitt, Ronald Daniels, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Thomas Haine, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Uncategorized
Imagine a tool that is a cross between a powerful electron microscope and the Hubble Space Telescope, allowing scientists from disciplines ranging from medicine and genetics to astrophysics, environmental science, oceanography and bioinformatics to examine and analyze enormous amounts of data from both “little picture” and “big picture” perspectives.Using a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a group led by computer scientist and astrophysicist Alexander Szalay of Johns Hopkins’ Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science is designing and developing such a tool, dubbed the Data-Scope.
November 1, 2010 Tags: Alexander Szalay, Andreas Terzis, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Data-Scope, Department of Computer Science, electron microscope, Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic, federal stimulus grant, federal stimulus money, high-performance computing, Hubble Space Telescope, Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, Johns Hopkins' Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science, Jonathan Bagger, Kenneth Church, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, National Science Foundation, petabyte, Sarah Wheelan, School of Medicine, Scott Zeger, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Environment, Institutional News, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, Technology
Dexter G. Smith has been appointed as The Johns Hopkins University’s associate dean for Engineering for Professionals. The program, which offers part-time education for working engineers and scientists, is part of the university’s Whiting School of Engineering.
October 12, 2010 Tags: Dexter G. Smith, Engineering for Professionals, part-time education, part-time engineering classes, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Institutional News, Technology, University Administration
Frederick Jelinek, a Johns Hopkins University faculty member whose research laid the foundation for modern speech recognition and text translation technology, died on Sept. 14 while working at the university’s Homewood campus in Baltimore. He was 77.
September 17, 2010 Tags: computer science, Frederick Jelinek, speech recognition, text translation technology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Technology
