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Seemingly overnight, Lauren Gardner went from an unassuming engineer to a global voice championing the value of data science in public health.

When first-year students come to Homewood, they step into a world of boundless possibility, but they also leave behind their family and community, their cultural customs, and treasured traditions. In the stories that follow, six Whiting School students share how they were able to maintain, define, and redefine their sense of identity at Johns Hopkins.

Crucial partners for ambitious
geneticists the world over,
computer scientist Michael
Schatz and his lab most recently
contributed to the first truly
complete human genome.

Don’t let the term “moon dust” fool you.Jagged and sharp as broken glass, the debris churned up when a spacecraft descends can damage vital equipment. A student team is working to characterize those “plume surface” interactions to aid NASA’s quest in pushing the boundaries of space ecploration.

When it comes to everyday objects, engineers often have an uncommon fascination with the way things are designed and the reasons behind their utility. To get a glimpse into this unique way of thinking, we polled a variety of Johns Hopkins engineers and asked them to share their insights on a favorite object of their choosing. Their answers may surprise you.

Threats to cybersecurity loom large in today’s world, putting us all at risk of being exploited by bad actors. Whiting School experts are focused on spotting cyber vulnerabilities and defending against them–a never-ending task, where the villains’ tactics are evolving just as rapidly as the technology they exploit.

Through advances in biomaterials, stem cell science, and more, researchers are moving tantalizingly close to regenerating damaged body parts, creating new organs, and equipping our existing tissues to fight off debilitating diseases.

Johns Hopkins researchers are on a mission to create and implement scalable, renewable energy technologies. There’s no time to waste.