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\"NickJones\"<\/a>On May 31, 2009, Nereus<\/a>, a hybrid, remotely operated submarine dove 10,902 meters into the Mariana Trench and gathered images and samples from one of the world\u2019s last remaining frontiers. The dive made Nereus the world\u2019s deepest-diving vehicle and marked the start of a new era in deep-sea exploration.<\/p>\n

Back in Baltimore, the Whiting School community was thrilled to hear of the expedition\u2019s success. After all, the project\u2019s co-principal investigator, Louis Whitcomb<\/a>, is one of ours\u2014a professor of mechanical engineering at WSE. Along with his graduate students and colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution<\/a>, Louis developed the sub\u2019s navigation and control system.<\/p>\n

Reading about Nereus, I realized that the kind of science fiction that fueled my imagination as a child is now taking place at WSE. Every day, our faculty \u201cexplore strange new worlds\u201d (such as studying cell detachment<\/a> at the subcellular level\u2014research at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology<\/a>) and \u201cboldly go where no man has gone before\u201d (including the work of professors James Spicer, Kevin Hemker, research engineer Denis Nagle, and Takeru Igusa with the Applied Physics Lab, who are developing materials and design criteria for the Solar Probe\u2019s<\/a> 2015 mission to the sun\u2019s corona). And the prosthetics that professors Alison Okamura, Ralph Etienne- Cummings, and Nitish Thakor are working on prove that we do, indeed, \u201chave the technology\u201d to make people \u201cbetter, stronger, faster.\u201d What\u2019s happening in our labs and classrooms is fantastic\u2014both wonderful and almost unbelievable.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also happy to report that student applications and acceptances remain strong. We again had a record-breaking number of applicants whose qualifications are the highest in the school\u2019s history. Graduate admissions are as competitive as ever, including in our new master\u2019s programs in Financial Mathematics<\/a>, Engineering Management<\/a>, and Bioengineering Innovation and Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Providing financial aid at a competitive level remains a Whiting School priority and this spring, President Ronald Daniels<\/a> stated his commitment to making a Johns Hopkins education accessible to all students, regardless of their financial means. He is working with the Homewood deans to achieve this goal. Already, the Whiting School has committed to a 50 percent tuition grant to any Hopkins undergraduate or alumnus pursuing a full-time master\u2019s degree at the Whiting School (see article<\/a> in this issue).<\/p>\n

Though the year\u2019s economic news has been far from rosy, we are weathering the storm. I am confident that with your continued dedication and leadership, we will emerge from this period even stronger than before.<\/p>\n

On behalf of our students, faculty, and staff I want to thank you for your support of the Whiting School of Engineering and wish you a wonderful summer.<\/p>\n

Best wishes,<\/p>\n

Nicholas P. Jones
\nBenjamin T. Rome Dean, Whiting School of Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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