Features

Winter 2015

What in the World?

An innovative master’s program takes student engineers from Johns Hopkins Hospital to remote regions of the globe to find simple…

Winter 2015

Getting Pumped

For Joe Katz, heading up the ambitious 10-year effort to build the Hopkins Heart, a permanent replacement heart, is just…

Summer 2014

The Guru of Cyber-Cryptography

Matt Green aims to fundamentally change the way we interact with the electronic world—to ensure complete privacy “so that nobody…

Summer 2014

Conquering Concussion

With their “digital head” a team of mechanical engineers is perfecting a computer model that could have profound implications—from the…

Summer 2014

Hold ’em or Fold ’em?

The man “passionately obsessive” about poker shares his tips for going home with the winnings. Avi Rubin is no stranger…

Winter 2014

Surgical Precision

Hailed as the “father of medical robotics,”Russ Taylor marries man and machine to push the boundaries of medicine. With a…

Winter 2014

A Century of Innovation

Fueling Maryland’s Growth By the early 1900s, Baltimore was thriving—with great rail connections, unmatched port facilities, and a growing workforce….

Summer 2013

Redefining What is Possible

On May 4, 2013, the university launched Rising to the Challenge, a seven-year fundraising effort to further empower the people of Johns Hopkins.

Summer 2013

She’s Got the Beat

The heart is much more than the sum of its parts. By capturing that complexity, Natalia Trayanova and her lab aim to deliver clinical innovations to transform cardiac care.