Features

Winter 2025

Road Warriors

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

Winter 2025

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.

Winter 2025

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.

Spring 2024

Algorithms for a Fairer World

Machine learning technologies hold the potential to revolutionize decision-making. But how can we ensure AI systems are free of bias? Our experts weigh in.

Spring 2024

In AI We Trust?

We increasingly rely on AI models in our daily lives—from traffic navigation and shopping apps to AI-informed care decisions made by our doctors. Given their ubiquity and influence, how and why should we trust these decisions? Can we be certain the models’ predictions are free of biases or errors?

Winter 2024

Material Matters

Inside the historic Stieff Silver Building, JohnsHopkins has built the world’s top facility forstudying the atomic structures of materials.Researchers across the Whiting School are usingit to reshape fields from energy to oncology.

Winter 2024

‘Innovation at the Crossroads’

Biomedical engineer Jennifer Elisseeff is known for asking bold questions and pursuing seemingly “outlandish” ideas that pay off big. Her latest cross-disciplinary pursuit? Unlocking the mysteries of aging.

Winter 2024

Hidden Realms

They say that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. But sometimes it’s too small, too complex, or even too fast for the naked eye to comprehend. Using advanced technology, our engineers are making the unseen visible—and transforming science into art.