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Distinguished Alumnus Award Established in 1978, this award honors alumni who have typified the Johns Hopkins tradition of excellence and brought credit to the university by their personal accomplishment, professional achievement, or humanitarian service. Gilbert F. Decker ’58 A member of the Whiting Legacy Circle and the National Advisory Council, Gilbert F. Decker was also…

For a start-up, cVision Medical SolutionsTM is racking up an impressive track record. Founded in 2007 by Johns Hopkins researchers and graduates, cVision’s flagship product cVeinTM began as a senior design project of students Vikram Aggarwal, Aniruddha Chatterjee, Jason Chiang, Yoonju Cho, and Wai Yim Lam. Today, the device is in clinical human trials at…

Robert Fischell, widely recognized as the father of modern medical stents, lifetime pacemaker batteries, and implantable insulin pumps, was presented with the Doctor of Humane Letters at Hopkins Commencement ceremonies on May 22. The honorary degree, presented by President William R. Brody, recognizes Fischell’s extraordinary contributions to society through his many medical device inventions, generous…

Nurturing emerging technology into the marketplace is something Anton “Tony” Dahbura ’81, MS ’82, PhD ’84, knows more than a little about. He spent 15 years in basic research at AT&T Bell Labs and ran Motorola’s research center, where he developed software for massively parallel supercomputers. In the mid-1990s, he joined Hub Labels, Inc, his…

From April 11 to 13 more than 4,200 alumni and friends returned to campus to celebrate their reunions and the 2008 homecoming. It was an exciting weekend packed with 72 events, which ranged from small class dinners to a Saturday afternoon pre-game lunch where 2,827 crab cakes were served! The Blue Jays were victorious over…

A. James Clark, longtime friend of the Whiting School and a university trustee emeritus, has committed $10 million to the Johns Hopkins University to endow the deanship of the university’s Whiting School of Engineering in honor of his mentor and business colleague, Benjamin T. Rome. Nicholas Jones, a former chair of the school’s Department of…

A new “lab on a chip” developed by Whiting School engineers will make it easier to study how and why neurons grow the way they do. For nerve cells to function properly they have to make the right connections. To do this, they follow their noses, making their ways to their final destinations guided by…

“Every week there’s a brand new lab that’s never been thought of before.” allison okamura Bicycles, springs, billiards, ball throwers, wind tunnels, music, and lacrosse balls. Those may sound like unlikely components to an under- graduate engineering course, but that’s exactly what they are. In the Department of Mechanical Engineering, a newly launched curriculum integrates…

One of the four focus points of the Whiting School’s Strategic Plan is a commitment to local and global strategic partnerships throughout academia and industry. Illustrating that commitment are two recent partnerships between the Whiting School and universities in China. This past January, a delegation from the Whiting School traveled to China to participate in…

It was the opening day of the NFL season at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo, N.Y., last September. Buffalo Bills tight-end Kevin Everett made a tackle that injured his spine and left him lying on the field, paralyzed. Andrew Cappuccino ’84 was there. Cappuccino, a spine specialist who has been an assistant team orthopedic surgeon…

We asked Professor Ben Hobbs, chair of Hopkins’ President’s Task Force on Climate Change and the recently appointed Theodore M. & Kay W. Schad Professor in Environmental Management in the Whiting School’s Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, to imagine visiting the Homewood campus in the year 2018. What “green” changes—both visible and behind-the scenes—will…

Two Johns Hopkins chemists—one environmental and the other bioinorganic—have joined forces to create a new approach for studying pollutant reactions in the environment. By drawing on their different areas of expertise, researchers Alan T. Stone and Justine P. Roth hope to develop a better way to predict the behavior of previously unexplored pollutants, including some…

Michael Bevan joined the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Engineering as an associate professor. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Hopkins, he was an associate professor of chemical engineering and mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University. Kai Loon Chen will join the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering…

Financial mathematics To be officially launched this fall, the new Master of Science in Financial Mathematics program aims to produce the next generation of financial markets leaders, by sending its graduates to brokerages, trading floors, hedge fund companies, and banks around the world. Housed within the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, the Financial Mathematics…

Researchers at the Whiting School and the School of Medicine have forged a partnership with Europe’s largest research organization. Germany’s Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft has a staff of 13,000 scientists and engineers, an annual research budget of € 1.3 billion, and is committed to undertaking various applied research projects for both the private and public sectors. The partnership…

Terry Neimeyer warns that waning national interest in the engineering profession has reached cri- sis proportions. With the Baby Boomer generation set to retire, and their replacements in exceedingly short supply, a level of anxiety has crept in for employers like Neimeyer, who is the CEO of kCI Technologies, a multidisciplinary engineering firm that has…

Few visitors to Homewood’s gilman Hall realize that the second floor passage leading into the Hutzler Reading Room is built on a steel girder truss bridge spanning what was once an open courtyard. Decades ago, that breezy courtyard was enclosed to provide a home for the university bookstore, with the store’s ceiling suspended from the…

The mystery has remained unsolved for nearly a century. The RMS Titanic was a 46,000-ton, double-hulled marvel of modern engineering. Unsinkable, people called it. Why then on April 14, 1912, did a glancing blow off an iceberg cause the Titanic to sink into the depths of the North Atlantic in less than three hours? For…

Edward Bouwer, professor and chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, has been named the Abel Wolman Professor of Environmental Engineering, succeeding Charlie O’Melia. Bouwer has been the chair of DOGEE since July 2007. He is a co-author of The Illusion of Certainty: Health Benefits and Risks (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007), which…

At Hopkins, continuing education for engineers is embodied in the Engineering and Applied Science Programs for Professionals (EPP). Now in its 25th year*, the program has grown by leaps and bounds and the numbers prove it. Year that classes at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) became part of the Whiting School of Engineering and EPP…

Gregory S. Chirikjian (left), professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Kevin Hemker (below), professor and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have been elected fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). A fellow is the highest grade of membership within ASME; it recognizes exceptional engineering achievements and contributions to the…

Technology now allows researchers to manipulate matter on the scale of a nanometer—one 5,000th the width of a human hair. From tiny electronic circuits to little gears and pumps, scientists are developing all sorts of nano-scale devices that could be useful in everything from computers to medical devices. But the physical world at that scale…

As technological advances lead to new materials, methods, and opportunities, Johns Hopkins engineers find themselves grappling with limitless possibilities and unexpected challenges. For thousands suffering from Parkinson’s disease, an advance in biomedical engineering known as deep brain stimulation appears to be a godsend. The procedure uses an electrode inserted into the brain to help calm…

    Steeped in theory and fundamentals throughout their four years at the Whiting School, students from all departments get to step out as seniors and, working in teams, apply what they’ve learned through a senior design project. The projects they tackle, proposed by industry experts, clinical faculty at Hopkins Hospital, and medical device companies,…

Earlier this year I had the opportunity, along with a few colleagues, to visit China to help initiate new partnerships with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Beijing’s Tsinghua University. These partnerships, which are just two of many that the Whiting School has recently forged, are part of our larger strategic initiative to ensure that our…