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A Boost for Cancer Moonshot

A Johns Hopkins engineering-led team has been awarded $20.9 million over five years to enhance surgical capabilities to treat cancer.

Awards and Honors

Johns Hopkins University’s faculty achievements shine with Lauren Gardner winning the Future Insight Prize from Merck, a global life sciences conglomerate based in Germany.

Facts and Figures

While numbers may not tell the whole story, these statistics and highlights offer some insights into just how talented, driven, inspiring, and accomplished the members of Johns Hopkins Engineering’s class of ’28 are.

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Igniting Passion for STEM

For 20 years, the Whiting School’s Center for Educational Outreach (CEO) has focused on igniting and deepening a passion for STEM in pre-K–12 students and teachers, while strengthening Johns Hopkins Engineering’s connections in the Baltimore community.

Tech Tools: Cheaper Carbon Capture

Johns Hopkins researchers develop a cost-effective carbon capture device using indigo dye and electricity, achieving 80% efficiency in tests.

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Vision Envisioned

Bestowing machines with the ability to perceive the physical world as humans do has been a careerlong mission of Alan Yuille, a pioneer in the field of computer vision.

Road Warriors

Air pollutants have met their match in environmental scientist Peter DeCarlo and his lab on wheels.

Getting Real

Students from JHU’s Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) traveled to India to gain an immersive knowledge of the challenges facing India’s rural and urban clinicians and community health workers.

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Testing the Water

Noor Hamdan explored the impact that recreational activities, specifically floating down a river on an inner tube, might have on water quality.

The Heart of the Matter

Jooyoung Ryu, a third-year student majoring in computer science, is using his Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award to train a machine learning model to better distinguish between stress cardiomyopathy and other acute cardiac syndromes.

Flying High in Aerospace Materials Research

When Jocelyn Freed last visited the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the fourth-year materials science and engineering major was drawn to a video showcasing Amy Ross, an engineer who designs space suits for NASA.

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Michael Bloomberg Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Biden honored Bloomberg for revolutionizing the financial information industry and for transforming the state of education, the environment, public health, and the arts in New York City as its mayor from January 2002 to December 2013.

The Candy Man Can

As the world’s leading manufacturer of chocolate, chewing gum, mints, and fruity confections, Mars has pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030, and every process is up for reinvention.

On a Mission to Cure Cancer

Adrian Johnston founded DUA, an early-stage startup that shows early promise for treating solid tumors like breast, lung, and stomach cancers, among others.

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From The Dean

From the Dean: Winter 2025

The start of a new academic year is always exciting, but this fall—a time when AI and data science underpin so many of our endeavors—is particularly energizing.

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