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.
Federal funding sustains much of the critical research underway at Johns Hopkins University and Medicine. The biennial event, Hopkins on the Hill, showcases the range, value, and impact of this work.
Instead of the usual one big event on Capitol Hill, Hopkins on the Hill is virtual this year, with lunchtime programming spread across May and June. It’s a chance to learn about the cutting-edge science and projects, straight from the early career researchers and practitioners working on it. The sessions will cover everything from space exploration and extreme materials development to Hopkins’ work to track and combat COVID-19.
May 3, 2021 Tags: Hopkins on the Hill, Johns Hopkins, research funding, Science
| Category: Computer Science, Earth Science, Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, Public Health
With a $20 million gift from the estate of trustee emeritus and alumnus Ralph S. O’Connor, the Johns Hopkins University and its Whiting School of Engineering today announced the establishment of the Ralph S. O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) to serve as the university’s interdisciplinary home for ongoing research and education aimed at creating clean, renewable, and sustainable energy technologies.
April 22, 2021 Tags: clean energy, climate change, environment, Johns Hopkins, Ralph S. O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute, Ralph S. O’Connor, renewable energy, ROSEI, sustainable energy
| Category: Engineering, Environment, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
The pandemic has made clear the threat that some viruses pose to humans. But viruses can also infect life-sustaining bacteria and a Johns Hopkins University-led team has developed a test to determine if bacteria are sick, similar to the one used to test humans for COVID-19.
February 25, 2021 Tags: bacteria, Chesapeake Bay, ecology, Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Preheim, viruses
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment
A team of Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineers and heart specialists have developed an algorithm that warns doctors several hours before hospitalized COVID-19 patients experience cardiac arrest or blood clots.
January 13, 2021 Tags: applied mathematics and statistics, biomedical engineering, cardiology, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Biomedical Engineering, JH-Crown Registry, Johns Hopkins Health System, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Natalia Trayanova
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
Most consumers of drinking water in the United States know that chemicals are used in the treatment processes to ensure the water is safe to drink. But they might not know that the use of some of these chemicals, such as chlorine, can also lead to the formation of unregulated toxic byproducts.
January 12, 2021 Tags: Carsten Prasse, Department of Environmental Health & Engineering, environmental engineering, water, water quality, water treatment
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Environment, Public Health
A Johns Hopkins University team of 24 undergraduate students that’s come up with a clear, adaptable face mask has won the Future Forward Award in a global challenge to design a better mask.
December 22, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, COVID-19, face masks, Johns Hopkins University, Mask Challenge, Pandemic, XPRIZE
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
A Johns Hopkins University team of 24 undergraduate students that’s come up with a clear, adaptable face mask is among five finalists in a global challenge to design a better mask.
December 3, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Mask Challenge, XPRIZE
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
A team of Johns Hopkins University researchers has developed a new software that could revolutionize how DNA is sequenced, making it far faster and less expensive to map anything from yeast genomes to cancer genes.
December 3, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, computational biology, Department of Computer Science, genetics, Michael Schatz
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology
With a training technique commonly used to teach dogs to sit and stay, Johns Hopkins University computer scientists showed a robot how to teach itself several new tricks, including stacking blocks. With the method, the robot, named Spot, was able to learn in days what typically takes a month.
October 26, 2020 Tags: computer science, Dogs, Johns Hopkins University, positive reinforcement, Robotics, robots
| Category: Engineering, Technology
A laboratory test developed by a research team led by Johns Hopkins University bioengineers can accurately pinpoint, capture and analyze the deadliest cells in the most common and aggressive brain cancer in adults.
October 15, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, biomolecular, biomolecular engineering, chemical engineering, Konstantinos Konstantopoulos, Nature Biomedical Engineering, oncology
| Category: biology, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
When metallic components in airplanes, bridges and other structures crack, the results are often catastrophic. But Johns Hopkins University researchers have found a way to reliably predict the vulnerabilities earlier than current tests. In a paper published today in Science, Johns Hopkins University researchers detail a new method for testing metals at a microscopic scale that allows them to rapidly inflict repetitive loads on materials while recording how ensuing damage evolves into cracks.
October 8, 2020 Tags: aerospace engineering, Air Force, Jaafar El-Awady, Science Magazine, U.S. Air Force, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
One team has invented a tool that could shave hours from a rhinoplasty. Another has created a sensor that ignores background noise – a device that could improve everything from telemedicine to Zoom calls.
These two Johns Hopkins University teams, a group of undergraduates and a group of graduates, are among the finalists announced today by the Collegiate Inventors Competition, an annual contest founded by the National Inventors Hall of Fame to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the collegiate level.
September 29, 2020 Tags: biomedical engineering, Collegiate Inventors Competition, James West, Johns Hopkins University, rhinoplasty
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing, Student-Related News, Technology, University-Related
Benjamin Hobbs, a Johns Hopkins University professor of environmental health and engineering, is available to speak to the media about issues related to the California energy grid and a new effort to build more renewable energy into power markets over the next decade.
September 25, 2020 Tags: climate change, electric utilities, green energy, power grid, renewable power, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Environment
TIME named a Johns Hopkins University professor to its 2020 list of the 100 most influential people in the world for developing a free and open website that empowers the international community to track the COVID-19 pandemic in near-real time with reliable, independent data.
September 22, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus Resource Center, COVID-19, CSSE, Lauren Gardner, The Whiting School of Engineering, TIME 100
| Category: Engineering, Public Health, Technology
Geneticists could identify the causes of disorders that currently go undiagnosed if standard practices for collecting individual genetic information were expanded to capture more variants that researchers can now decipher, concludes new Johns Hopkins University research.
September 10, 2020 Tags: American Association for the Advancement of Science, biomedical engineering, computational genomics, genomics, Genotype-Tissue Expression Project, National Institutes of Health, personal genomics, Science
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering
August 12, 2020 CONTACT: Doug Donovan Cell: 443-462-2947 dougdonovan@jhu.edu @dougdonovan A new robotic system allows medical staff to remotely operate ventilators and other bedside machines from outside intensive care rooms of patients suffering from infectious diseases. The system, developed by a team of Johns Hopkins University and Medicine researchers, is still being tested, but initial […]
August 12, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering, medical robotics
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
Residents in all 25 of the U.S. counties hardest hit by COVID-19 began to limit their public movements six to 29 days before states implemented stay-at-home orders, according to Johns Hopkins University researchers.
July 1, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner
| Category: Earth Science, Engineering, Government and Politics, Social Sciences
When Pulitzer Prize and Grammy award winner Kendrick Lamar rapped “I got millions, I got riches buildin’ in my DNA,” he almost certainly wasn’t talking about the humble tomato. But a new study unveiling more than 230,000 DNA differences across 100 tomato varieties which will allow breeders and scientists to engineer larger, juicier, more profitable plants, proves that tomatoes indeed have riches buildin’ in their DNA, too.
June 17, 2020 Tags: Bloomberg Distinguished Professors, computer science, genomes, genomics, Michael Schatz, The Whiting School of Engineering, tomatoes
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering
By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course and studying their movements, the Johns Hopkins engineers that brought you the cockroach robot and the snake robot discovered that animals’ movement transitions corresponded to overcoming potential energy barriers and that they can jitter around to traverse obstacles in complex terrain.
June 15, 2020 Tags: Chen Li, cockroach, Ratan Othayoth, robot, search and rescue, Terradynamics Lab, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
Smart homes of today – with lights, refrigerators and Alexa all talking to each other – aren’t nearly as smart as they need to be to thwart virtual burglars from breaking in. To address the massive security threat to interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT), Johns Hopkins University and six other institutions are embarking on an effort to fortify vulnerable points of entry against hackers.
June 12, 2020 Tags: computer science, cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Smart Homes
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Government and Politics
The Johns Hopkins University professor behind the popular COVID-19 tracking map is joining scientists at two other institutions to develop new methods for understanding how and why the current coronavirus and future pandemics spread.
June 11, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Lauren Gardner, National Institutes of Health, NIH grant
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics
Johns Hopkins researchers recently received a $195,000 Rapid Response Research grant from the National Science Foundation to, using machine learning, identify which COVID-19 patients are at risk of adverse cardiac events such as heart failure, sustained abnormal heartbeats, heart attacks, cardiogenic shock and death.
May 18, 2020 Tags: AI, Allison Hays, cardiology, machine learning, Natalia Trayanova, NSF, RAPID grant
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health
The U.S. Department of Defense has selected Johns Hopkins University to lead an alliance of major research institutions to understand, predict, and control the behavior of materials in extreme conditions caused by weapons of mass destruction.
April 22, 2020 Tags: HEMI, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Chemistry, Engineering
A computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University is available to discuss the study that he and his students have completed that analyzes Major League Baseball’s plan to realign Minor League Baseball by eliminating several small-town teams across the United States and re-shuffling remaining squads into new leagues.
April 17, 2020 Tags: Anton Dahbura, Department of Computer Science, Major League Baseball, minor league baseball
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Sports
Inspired by how human bone and colorful coral reefs adjust mineral deposits in response to their surrounding environments, Johns Hopkins researchers have created a self-adapting material that can change its stiffness in response to the applied force. This advancement can someday open the doors for materials that can self-reinforce to prepare for increased force or stop further damage.
April 17, 2020 Tags: materials, Sung Hoon Kang, The Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
