Spring 2026
Asked & Answered
Is Power the Thing With Feathers?
Powerful wings, psychoactive salad, and secret cells
Changemakers: Enterprising Alumni
Rewarding Student Initiative
Johns Hopkins engineering students eager to pursue independent projects often need seed funding to get their ideas off the ground.
Changemakers: Enterprising Alumni
One Cool Job
Emily Maheras, Engr ’20, ’23 (MS), a thermal engineer for NASA, helped make a new laser communication device a reality.
Changemakers: Enterprising Alumni
The Human Side of AI
Dan Shapero, Engr ’00, leads LinkedIn during a pivotal period.
Changemakers: Enterprising Alumni
The System Behind the Salad
Leslie Silverglide, Engr ’02, has spent nearly two decades building MIXT.
Changemakers: Enterprising Alumni
A New Vision for Accessibility
Rebecca Rosenberg, Engr ’22 (MS), has always been drawn to challenges.
Current
LIGHTS On: Expanding Grid Capacity
As electricity demand surges across the U.S., a Johns Hopkins project is helping states expand grid capacity faster and more affordably.
Intelligence
Can AI Conform to Social Norms?
As artificial intelligence becomes more prevalent in everyday life, Professor Gillian Hadfield is helping build the legal and ethical infrastructure needed for an AI-driven future.
Current
Mobilizing to Map the U.S. Soil Microbiome
A team including Hopkins geneticists and students has already discovered more than 1,000 new strains of bacteria and microbes.
From the Dean
Partnerships Prepare Students for Practice
Real-world experiences equip our students with the judgment, resilience, and professional habits they’ll need to lead.
History Made
150 Years of Innovation
Highlighting Johns Hopkins Engineering’s enduring impact as we celebrate JHU’s sesquicentennial.
Impact: Faculty Innovation
‘Seeing’ the Air Move
Charles Meneveau is leading efforts to transform hard data into colorful swirls that offer insights into wind farm efficiency.
Quiz Me
Brain-Inspired Robot Dogs
Robot dogs designed by Tinoosh Mohsenin help first responders when all signals fail.
Impact: Faculty Innovation
Impulse Control for Better Decisions
Haoyang Cao has developed a new mathematical framework helping to determine not just what action to take, but precisely when to take it.
Impact: Faculty Innovation
Hitchhiking on an Interplanetary Journey
New research from Johns Hopkins suggests that life may be able to survive a journey between planets.
Impact: Faculty Innovation
Tapping AI to Improve Wildfire Evacuation
A team led by Susu Xu is using AI to predict human behavior and decision-making under stress.
How It Works
Bye-Bye Biopsies
Engineers have developed a microscopy method for faster diagnoses and fewer invasive biopsies.
Impact: Faculty Innovation
The Platinum Problem
Corey Oses is looking at high-entropy alloys as a more affordable and abundant energy alternative.
Impact: Faculty Innovation
Accelerating Pancreatic Cancer Detection
Hopkins researchers have developed a database aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence to spot pancreatic cancer earlier, when it is potentially treatable.
