Johns Hopkins leads nation in research spending for 39th consecutive year
December 17, 2018
University spent record $2.562B in fiscal year 2017, up 5.4 percent from FY16.
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Professor Brint Cooper to Serve on National Academies Panel
December 1, 2018
Electrical and Computer Engineering professor, Brint Cooper, will serve on the National Academies Panel on Review of In-house Laboratory Independent Research (ILIR) in Network Sciences at the Army’s Research, Development, and Engineering Centers (RDECs). This panel of experts will independently assess the quality of foundational research projects conducted at the RDECs and will contribute to the […]
OnlineMasters.com selects Johns Hopkins University as one of the Best Master’s in Electrical Engineering Programs for 2019
November 29, 2018
OnlineMasters.com has selected Johns Hopkins University as one of the Best Master’s in Electrical Engineering Programs for 2019. Their research found that the JHU Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering program to be the Most Flexible. Read more at OnlineMasters.com >>
Two ECE students win the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award
November 27, 2018
Tina Gao and Eliza Cohn have recently been awarded the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA). The PURA is open to undergraduates from any division working with a mentor in any JHU division, center, or institute. Undergraduates can perform independent research, create a design, foster their entrepreneurship, or focus on scholarly and creative projects over the academic […]
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Cell phones and computer code: Awards go to Bell Labs pioneers, ECE’s James West, Philly.com
November 15, 2018
Philly.com highlights the contributions of electrical and computer engineering professor James E. West to microphone technology in advance of his receipt of the John Scott Award
Venkataraman wins NSF award to develop mathematical framework for brain modeling
November 12, 2018
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded John C. Malone Assistant Professor Archana Venkataraman $875,000 in grant funding to support a three-year research project to develop a mathematical framework that will detect subsystems in the brain that are altered in the presence of a neurological disorder. Venkataraman’s lab, the Neural Systems Analysis Laboratory (NSA Lab), […]
Muyinatu Bell explains the elevator pitch at IEEE IUS
November 5, 2018
Assistant professor Muyinatu Bell organized the first Women in Engineering (WIE) Elevator Pitch Event at IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS) this year, which was held in Kobe, Japan, at the end of October. Nearly 80 women attended the event, which was sponsored by the Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S). Bell shared personal tips on successfully […]
Owls help JHU scientists unlock the secret of how the brain pays attention
November 1, 2018
By studying barn owls, scientists at Johns Hopkins University believe they’ve taken an important step toward solving the long-standing mystery of how the brain chooses what most deserves attention. The finding, the cover article in the latest issue of the journal Cell Reports, likely applies to all animals, including humans, and offers new insight into what goes […]
Johns Hopkins moves up to No. 12 in ‘Times Higher Education’ World University Rankings
September 26, 2018
Johns Hopkins University moved up a spot to No. 12 in the new Times Higher Education World University Rankings, an annual measure that compares global research-intensive institutions across their core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. THE‘s latest rankings, released today, include 1,000 universities from 77 countries. Hopkins shares the No. 12 ranking—as well as the […]
John Rattray’s work highlighted at DARPA D60
September 19, 2018
John Rattray, a PhD candidate from the Computational Sensory Motor Systems Lab and advisee of Prof. Etienne-Cummings, was invited to present his research earlier this September at the Gaylord National Harbor during DARPA’s 60th Anniversary Symposium. Rattray was named by DARPA as one of this year’s Early Risers, a distinction given to “up-and-coming standouts in […]
