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The 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. Michael J. Zinner, MD Distinguished Alumnus Award Michael Zinner is a nationally known leader in surgery, medical education, research, and…

For John and Mary Zappone, both Whiting School alumni from the Class of ’86, Johns Hopkins will always be home. The two met their freshman year. Mary was then a biomedical engineering major, but John soon lured her, subtly, he says, to his major: chemical engineering. Both excelled in the classroom and found time for…

Michael Yu, assistant professor in Materials Science and Engineering, received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in March 2007. The CAREER award is given in recognition of young scientists’ commitment to research and education. Yu’s award will fund the exploration of new collagen modification techniques and the development of spatially functionalized…

Though no one who’s ever been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis has ever been cured of it, new research by Justin Hanes and his colleagues offers a potential solution to one of the biggest obstacles impeding treatment of this devastating and chronic illness. “The gene that could cure cystic fibrosis has been known since 1989. However,…

• Length of May 17, 2007, undergraduate Arts and Sciences and Whiting School of Engineering commencement: 100 minutes • Length of film The Graduate: 105 minutes • Mrs. Robinsons who have spoken at college and university commencements from 2000 to 2007: 6* • Number of commencement ceremonies at JHU in 2007: 10 • Bachelor’s degrees…

A pouch made of nylon mesh sandwiched between two concentric wire stents that could improve cell therapy for diabetics. A thin strip that dissolves in the mouth, like a breath-freshener, that could provide life-saving rotavirus vaccine to infants in developing nations. These are just two of the devices created by Whiting School undergraduates and unveiled…

In March, the Cardiovascular Research Grid, a worldwide digital data network to be based at the Whiting School’s Institute for Computational Medicine (ICM), was awarded $8.5 million in federal support. The grant, which will be allocated over a four-year period, comes from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of…

Ben Tang and Caroline McEnnis are on a mission to let young people know that lack of a sight is not an obstacle to a career in science. The Hopkins engineering graduate students, under the direction of Materials Science and Engineering assistant professor Michael Yu, have organized a four-day event designed to engage blind high…

Some researchers spend decades trying to get their name on top of a scientific journal article. At 18, Emma Call already has her name on two. Call, who recently graduated from high school at the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (Poly), was one of 10 winners in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search for her work completed…

When 11 engineering seniors look at the flat, black roof of Ames Hall, they see the potential to make the world a better place. The fact that the roof membrane is old and scheduled to be replaced next year just makes it that much more appealing. The roof is currently home to a couple of…

Like a rocket blast, the Aeronautics Department at Johns Hopkins was relatively short-lived but nonetheless spectacular. Francis Clauser founded the department in 1946 at the behest of a faculty committee and university President Isaiah Bowman, who wanted a program geared toward graduate study and research. Clauser, now 93, still clearly recalls the Sunday afternoon in…

For Janine Yieh, MS ’06, a six-month internship with EA Engineering, Science, and Technology last year allowed her to get her feet wet—both literally and figuratively—in the world of environmental engineering, including wastewater management. In one project for the Carroll County Department of Public Works, she worked to upgrade the municipality’s sludge dewatering facilities, going…

Every Tuesday this past spring semester, David Audley, PhD ’72 commuted by train from New York to Homewood to teach more than 30 graduate and undergraduate students enrolled in Mathematical Modeling of Securities and Financial Markets, a new course offered by the Whiting School’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS). “There’s huge student interest…

As a youngster, Jeff Caldwell ’84 made people laugh. “Usually it was the teacher laughing and not the kids,” he recalls. “I enjoyed making quips in the classroom, but my humor always appealed to an older set.” Instead of Bugs Bunny or the Three Stooges, Caldwell’s childhood heroes were Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, and the…

Robert M. Summers ’72 (A&S), PhD ’81, had long worked to protect the environment, but on a recent canoeing trip with his teenage sons and friends down the Susquehanna River, he experienced firsthand the symptoms of polluted waters. Floating down the waterway that begins outside of Cooperstown, New York, and terminates in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay,…

Ben Schafer, associate professor of civil engineering and outgoing president of the Cold-Formed Steel Engineers’ Institute These are exciting and challenging times for those civil engineers who have chosen to be both the stewards and creators of our built environment. Globalization has influenced the construction work force and the engineers who design the buildings. Immigration…

When Treena Livingston Arinzeh, MS ’94, was first encouraged by a high school teacher in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to consider a career in engineering, she hardly imagined that she would one day be engineering cures for devastating medical conditions. While most of her peers dreamed of growing up to be doctors and lawyers, professions…

Admit? Deny? When “March Madness” descends on Admissions at Johns Hopkins, this portentous question becomes all-consuming. We take you inside Garland Hall, in the stomach-churning weeks leading up to the big mail drop on March 28, as Hopkins admissions experts grapple with crafting the “perfect” freshman class. March 27 There is a controlled urgency in…

Geographer and alumnus Roger Stern had no idea the media frenzy his conclusions would ignite when he published his latest findings about Iran and its oil supply. When Roger Stern, PhD ’07 was accepted into the graduate program of the Whiting School’s Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering (DoGEE), he felt lucky. A botanist with…

In the time it takes to read this sentence, 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells. Lined up end to end, the body’s more than 10 billion nerve cells would stretch 45 miles. Each day, you breathe an average of 23,040 times, and your blood makes its daily 60,000-mile…

At the Engineering Deans Institute Conference I attended in April, one of the presenters spoke on a subject that is not only of great interest to me, but is at the heart of most discussions regarding the future of engineering in the United States: technical and scientific literacy. Specifically, how can we encourage elementary through…