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In August, Johns Hopkins announced a major investment in data science and the exploration of artificial intelligence.bThe heart of this endeavor will be a Whiting School of Engineering–based interdisciplinary data science and translation institute that will significantly strengthen the university’s capabilities to harness emerging applications, opportunities, and challenges presented by the explosion of available data and the rapid rise of accessible AI.

Two members of the Johns Hopkins Engineering faculty,  Jennifer Elisseeff and Alex Szalay, have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, recognizing their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

Ed Schlesinger, who has served as dean of the Whiting School of Engineering since 2014, has been appointed to a third term as the school’s Benjamin T. Rome dean, through June 30, 2028.

Using powerful transmission electron microscopes, Ken Livi, an associate research scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and director of operations for the Whiting School of Engineering’s Materials Characterization and Processing facility, examined samples of Blood Falls water and found an abundance of iron-rich nanospheres that oxidize, turning the water seemingly gory and solving a century-old mystery.

Batteries often stop working at inopportune moments, and little is known about why they gradually lose their ability to store and deliver energy over time, a process known as degradation. Yayuan Liu, assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is working to shed light—literally—on why this process happens.

Hopkins Engineering faculty trending in the media.

Biomedical engineer Jennifer Elisseeff is known for asking bold questions and pursuing seemingly “outlandish” ideas that pay off big. Her latest cross-disciplinary pursuit? Unlocking the mysteries of aging.

They say that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. But sometimes it’s too small, too complex, or even too fast for the naked eye to comprehend. Using advanced technology, our engineers are making the unseen visible—and transforming science into art.

Inside the historic Stieff Silver Building, JohnsHopkins has built the world’s top facility forstudying the atomic structures of materials.Researchers across the Whiting School are usingit to reshape fields from energy to oncology.

In middle school, Erick Rocher watched a friend fight cancer. The experience proved formative. “There was no doubt I wanted…

Kristen Corlay Sanmiguel arrived as a first-year student at Hopkins intent on improving life in communities like her home city…

Ice hockey analytics takes faceoffs into consideration, but current approaches don’t go much further than the idea that winning more faceoffs than losing is good for a team.

When Paige Senal ’17 was a first-year student at the Whiting School, she imagined a future working to save the…

Craig Schwitter ’89 is a passionate advocate for integrating engineering, architectural design, and rapid advances in technology to improve people’s…

Access to dependable internet and technology can be a community’s gateway to economic, political, and informational resources. Emeka Ebo MS…

Scott Smith is more than familiar with debugging—whether it’s in lines of computer code or amid the rows of his orchard.

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