Johns Hopkins University led all U.S. universities in research and development spending for the 39th straight year in fiscal year 2017, spending a record $2.562 billion on projects like enhancing drone safety, growing retinas in the lab to find out how color vision is developed, and improving methods of studying cell mechanics to advance cancer research.
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.
Johns Hopkins Mathematician Receives NSF Grant for Innovative Brain Research
Carey Priebe, a noted mathematician in Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation EAGER grant for his work exploring the complex behaviors of the brain’s circuitry.
Johns Hopkins Joins NSF’s National Innovation Network
The Johns Hopkins University is joining the University of Maryland, George Washington University and Virginia Tech in a regional collaboration called Innovation Corps, designed to train faculty and student researchers to transform ideas into products and get them on the market..
JHU Astronomer Awarded $9.5 Million to Create “Virtual Telescope” to Observe Scientific Data
A team of scientists at The Johns Hopkins University has received a grant for $9.5 million over five years to develop, build and maintain large-scale data sets that will allow for greater access and better usability of the information for the science community.