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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.

A New Energy Hub in Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University is building a renewable energy lab in Baltimore’s Remington Neighborhood that will focus on energy transition innovations, including carbon management, energy storage, wind power, and grid optimization.

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‘Jailbreaks’ Threaten Low-Resource Languages

The large language models (LLMS) that power many popular text-based artificial intelligence applications are vulnerable to jailbreaking attacks, during which a user enters a malicious prompt to bypass an application’s guardrails to trick it into making inappropriate or harmful content.

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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.

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.

Road Warriors

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

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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.

Flying High in Aerospace Materials Research

When Jocelyn Freed last visited the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., the fourth-year materials science and engineering major was drawn to a video showcasing Amy Ross, an engineer who designs space suits for NASA.

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.

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Antarctic Adventurer—and More

Since 2006, Benjamin Urmston has deployed to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station 10 times through the National Science Foundation’s United States Antarctic program.

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.

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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.

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