The Rhodes to Reproductive Health
Fourth-year student Alaleh Azhir is one of 32 American students to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 2019, which enables her to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
At WSE
Toward Excellence in Academic Advising
The Whiting School of Engineering and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences are embarking on a two-year initiative to evaluate and improve their academic advising processes.
Cultivating Diversity in Biomedical Research
Johns Hopkins has teamed up with Morgan State and Coppin State universities to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.
Home to Homewood
Students in three master’s degree programs at the Whiting School can now jump-start their course work months before they step foot on the Homewood campus, thanks to Home2Homewood.
Innovative Doctoral Program Debuts
In July, the Whiting School welcomed its first cohort of students accepted to an innovative new Doctor of Engineering (DEng) program designed to meet the needs of midcareer engineering professionals.
WSE by the Numbers
In October, the university’s $6 billion university-wide fundraising campaign officially came to a close. The money raised during the eight-and-a-half-year campaign has been nothing short of transformative.
Partnerships in Asia
Two new partnerships—one with China’s Tsinghua University and the other with Taiwan’s Ministry of Education—are expanding the School of Engineering’s global reach.
Network Will Manage ‘Data Deluge’
“The goal is to create a robust, industrial-strength national storage substrate that can impact 80 percent of the NSF research community,” says Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alexander Szalay.
Where Creativity Reigns
A new space devoted to turning the seeds of students’ creative ideas into reality opened this fall in Remington, a stone’s throw from the Homewood campus.