INBT’s New High-Tech Home

Spring 2011

The Whiting School’s New Engineering Building has been revamped to add 13,900 square feet of lab space. It now houses the Institute for NanoBioTechnology (INBT) and two new centers the INBT launched-the Engineering in Oncology Center and the Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE).

Last fall, the INBT received a $13.6 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish the CCNE , which brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and physicians developing nanotechnology-based diagnostic platforms and strategies for comprehensive cancer care. The award complements the INBT’s earlier $14.8 million award to establish the Engineering in Oncology Center.

Surviving the Shake Test

Many scientists consider their research earthshaking. But a project headed by the Whiting School’s chair of Civil Engineering actually did make the earth tremble. Using massive moving platforms and an array of video cameras and tiny sensors, Benjamin W. Schafer, the Swirnow Family Faculty Scholar, along with a team of scientists from six universities, last…

High-Energy Innovator Named as New Dean

In late October, faculty, staff, and students from across the University welcomed to campus T.E. “Ed” Schlesinger, the new Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering. Schlesinger’s appointment was effective January 1. Schlesinger joins Johns Hopkins from Carnegie Mellon University where he was a faculty member for 28 years and served as…

Crystal Ball

Q: As we move our economy out of coins and bills and onto the Internet in the form of e-money such as Bitcoin, what privacy concerns lie ahead, and how might we address them? A: Matthew Green, assistant research professor at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI). From debit cards to online banking, cash has…