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.
In response to a pressing need for more ventilators to treat critically ill COVID-19 patients, a team led by Johns Hopkins University engineers is developing and prototyping a 3D-printed splitter that will allow a single ventilator to treat multiple patients. Though medical professionals have expressed concerns about the safety and effectiveness of sharing ventilators, the team has designed this tool to address those concerns.
April 2, 2020 Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University, ventilators, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
A new reusable device created by the Johns Hopkins University can help women with breast cancer in lower income countries by using carbon dioxide, a widely available and affordable gas, to power a cancer tissue-freezing probe instead of industry-standard argon.
July 15, 2019 Tags: biomedical engineering, cancer, Nicholas Durr, oncology, student research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Student-Related News
In cinema and science fiction, one small change in the past can have major, sometimes life-changing effects in the future. Using a series of snapshots, researchers recently captured such so-called “butterfly effects” in heart muscle cell development, and say this new view into the sequence of gene expression activity may lead to better understanding disease risk.
June 27, 2019 Tags: Alexis Battle, Engineering, gene expression, genes, genetics, heart muscle cells, stem cells, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: biology, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
Freshmen mechanical engineering students at the Johns Hopkins University have built an interactive 17-hole miniature golf course for 2019 JHU Spring Fair guests to enjoy. Working in teams of three or four, the students have created 17 holes that make up a lively golf course—each hole has moving parts, sensors and lights. Come see the course for yourself and try your hand at a round or two.
April 23, 2019 Tags: campus, Engineering, engineering student projects, event, golf, Spring Fair, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Student-Related News, University-Related
The 5th Annual Cyber Security Conference for Executives, co-sponsored by Johns Hopkins University and business advisory and expert services firm Ankura, presents a forum for experts from academia, private business, and government to share their knowledge and experience.
March 6, 2019 Tags: cyber security, Technology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Technology, University-Related
A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions.
March 4, 2019 Tags: asteroid, Charles El Mir, computer simulation, HEMI, KT Ramesh, space, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
A new Johns Hopkins study offers promise towards someday being able to non-invasively examine changes in cancerous tumors to determine whether they’ll respond to radiation treatment, before treatment even begins.
February 28, 2019 Tags: cancer, Engineering, imaging, Ishan Barman, pathology, radiation, radiology, Santosh Paidi, tumor, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing
February 11, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Shani McPherson Office: 410-516-4778 Cell: 510-393-7159 sprovos1@jhu.edu WHAT: More than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from around the country will gather at Johns Hopkins University this weekend for the latest HopHacks, a marathon session challenging students to realize their best software and hardware ideas and compete for cash […]
February 11, 2019 Tags: Engineering, event, HopHacks, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Public Health, Technology
Demi Lovato’s drug overdose and Anthony Bourdain’s suicide resulted in unequal news coverage of national help hotlines, finds a new study published Jan. 14 in JAMA Internal Medicine.
January 14, 2019 Tags: celebrity, computer engineering, drug overdose, Google, Mark Dredze, media, news coverage, substance abuse, suicide, Twitter, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology
More than 300 elementary, middle, and high school Baltimore City Public Schools students will compete Saturday in the Hopkins Robotics Cup, the Baltimore City VEX and VEX IQ Robotics League championship event.
January 10, 2019 Tags: Baltimore City VEX Robotics Championship, Center for Educational Outreach, Hopkins Robotics Cup, K-12 Education, K-12 science competition, Robotics, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, JHU Community Connections, University-Related
With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
November 12, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Coppin State University, diversity, Morgan State University, post-doctoral fellows, School of Medicine, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Natural Sciences
Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering has created a doctoral engineering program to serve the needs of working engineering professionals and to meet the growing demand for engineers who have the advanced knowledge needed to solve challenging problems.
September 18, 2018 Tags: DEng, doctoral engineering program, Johns Hopkins University, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering
Media advisory: Background for reporters on the heat shield that will protect NASA’s Parker Solar Probe as it swoops through the solar atmosphere, less than 4 million miles from the surface of the sun.
August 8, 2018 Tags: Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, materials science, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, sun, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Physics and Astronomy
Johns Hopkins University has been awarded up to $30 million to lead a consortium of three Mid-Atlantic universities that will work together on research projects with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
August 6, 2018 Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Morgan State University, National Institute of Standards and Technology, tate University of New York at Binghamton, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Technology
A new partnership between the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and Taiwan’s Ministry of Education will bring students from that country to Johns Hopkins’ Homewood campus to pursue doctoral studies in engineering beginning in August 2019.
June 20, 2018 Tags: biomedical engineering, Homewood campus, mechanical engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, International Affairs, Uncategorized
Engineering undergraduates have developed an anti-bleeding “super gel” that can be delivered with a catheter but is hyper-absorbent enough to then swell with blood, creating a clot to block any bleeding.
April 17, 2018 Tags: materials science, student design competition, undergraduate research, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Student-Related News
The Johns Hopkins University today bought Baltimore’s historic Stieff Silver complex, making a highly visible symbol of the city’s manufacturing heritage formally a part of its future in the knowledge economy.
November 1, 2017 Tags: Ed Schlesinger, real estate, Stieff Silver, T.E. Schlesinger, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, University-Related
Two Johns Hopkins materials science graduate students and their professors played a key role in a multi-institution research project that pinpointed how a tiny protein seems to make the deadly Ebola virus particularly contagious.
August 21, 2017 Tags: Ebola, Ebola virus, Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology, materials science, nanobiotechnology, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Medicine and Nursing
Nine faculty members from The Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting School of Engineering have been named Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
March 21, 2017 Tags: AIMBE Fellows, bioengineering, biological engineering, biomedical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Technology
Johns Hopkins University graduate programs in nursing, education, medicine, and biomedical engineering are considered among the best in the country, according to the newest U.S. News & World Report rankings of “Best Graduate Schools.”
March 14, 2017 Tags: biomedical engineering, geriatric medicine, graduate schools, nursing, rankings, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, U.S. News & World Report, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, JHU Community Connections, Medicine and Nursing, Uncategorized
The Clark Charitable Foundation is giving the Johns Hopkins University $15 million to provide financial aid and enhanced learning opportunities for undergraduate engineering students.
October 17, 2016 Tags: Clark Charitable Foundation, Clark Scholars Program, Ed Schlesinger, engineering undergraduates, Financial aid, James Clark, Rising to the Challenge, Ronald J. Daniels, scholarships, undergraduate education, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Engineering, Fundraising, Giving, Homewood Campus News, Student-Related News, University-Related
About 160 high school students at the Johns Hopkins Baltimore campus — and another 425 students across the country — will compete in the annual Spaghetti Bridge Contest, marking the culmination of a four-week summer course called Engineering Innovation.
July 20, 2016 Tags: Engineering, Engineering Innovation, high school, Johns Hopkins University, Spaghetti bridge contest, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News
Tuition for full-time liberal arts and engineering undergraduates at the Johns Hopkins University will increase 3.5 percent this fall while the financial aid budget supporting those students rises 5 percent.
April 29, 2016 Tags: Financial aid, Krieger School of Art and Sciences, Peabody Conservatory, tuition, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Student-Related News, University-Related
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 11, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, computer science, Ed Schlesinger, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, middle school education, Ronald J. Daniels, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore City Schools have partnered to create the city’s first pre-K-8th grade school dedicated to giving students a foundation in engineering and computer skills.
November 5, 2015 Tags: Barclay Elementary/Middle School, Johns Hopkins University, K-12 Education, STEM, Whiting School of Engineering
| Category: Education/K-12, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News
