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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.

A New Energy Hub in Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University is building a renewable energy lab in Baltimore’s Remington Neighborhood that will focus on energy transition innovations, including carbon management, energy storage, wind power, and grid optimization.

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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Alarming Trends in Opioid Deaths

Johns Hopkins study reveals COVID-19’s impact on opioid deaths, reducing U.S. life expectancy and disproportionately affecting minority communities, highlighting a growing crisis.

Powering Through the Freeze

Researchers at the Whiting School and JHU’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) are developing lithium-ion batteries capable of operating in some of the world’s coldest environments.

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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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Helping Maryland Reach Its Climate Goals

Sreyas Chintapalli, a PhD candidate, is helping Maryland’s state leaders implement some of the country’s most ambitious climate initiatives.

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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Antarctic Adventurer—and More

Since 2006, Benjamin Urmston has deployed to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station 10 times through the National Science Foundation’s United States Antarctic program.

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.

Event Planning Made Easy

Nowadays uses artificial intelligence to automate event planning challenges in a clean, modern interface for easier decision-making.

My Other Life View All

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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