Alumni

J. Trueman Thompson relied on relief labor to construct a campus road system during the Great Depression.

The “father” of computer science at Johns Hopkins may be William H. Huggins, who encouraged university administrators to acquire the university’s first computer in the early 1960s, and he became a strong proponent of using computers as teaching tools.

Pan Ji, MS ’11, says she once believed that engineers needed to be “emotionally unattached and isolated from the public.” Her perspective changed after preparing sampling kits and processing water samples from hundreds of homes in Flint, Michigan.

When it came to making sure he ate well as a Johns Hopkins undergrad, necessity truly was the mother of invention for Dharshan Munidasa ’94, who taught himself to cook after finding cafeteria food not to his liking. Today, he is one of Asia’s most celebrated chefs and the owner of five restaurants in Sri Lanka that consistently earn critical acclaim.

Cutting-edge entrepreneur Leslie Silverglide ’02 opened her 10th restaurant last summer in a prime spot near San Francisco’s Union Square. The award-winning Mixt specializes in delicious, high-quality salads made with local, seasonal, and organic produce.

Nnake Nweke loves an intellectual challenge. It’s what drives him in his new role as the first director of the Office of Internet Freedom for the Broadcasting Board of Governors.

Inspecting incidents on the railways can involve putting first responders in harm’s way and can take hours or even days. That’s why the TSA tasked the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory with coming up with a better solution.

In collaboration with three spine surgeons at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Maxim Budyansky, MSE ’11, and Neil Shah, MSE ’11, have invented a device intended to radically improve the process of harvesting autologous bone grafts.