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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.

Impact View All

Building Doctors’ Trust in AI

Johns Hopkins study finds doctors benefit from AI in telehealth but hesitate to fully trust algorithms, highlighting need for improved AI explanations.

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.

Features View All

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.

Road Warriors

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

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.

Students View All

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Contributors View All