Dear WSE faculty and staff, I am delighted to share with you the news that Howard Katz, a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, has been appointed interim chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, effective July 1, succeeding Jonah Erlebacher. I know you share my deep appreciation and admiration […]
Earlier this summer, DMSE Ph.D. candidate Suhas Eswarappa Prameela was awarded the 2020 Diversity Recognition Award for his efforts in fostering inclusion within the Whiting School of Engineering. The award highlights faculty, staff, and students who are working towards the advancement and celebration of diversity and promoting inclusion across all divisions of Johns Hopkins and […]
DMSE professor Howard Katz’s manuscript, entitled “Enhanced and Unconventional Responses in Chemiresistive Sensing Devices for Nitrogen Dioxide and Ammonia from Carboxylated Alkylthiopene Polymers” published in Materials Horizons 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0MH00049C). The research addresses the ongoing need to detect certain atmospheric gases that can be harmful to humans. Spaces can be made safer for people by creating […]
Mitra Taheri, the newest professor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering and Director of the MCP has been recognized by the U.S. Office of Naval Research Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award. With the MURI Award, Mitra will lead a team from JHU, Northwestern, UVA, and Arizona State Universities in an effort to […]
Five JHU Materials Science & Engineering students make up the Augeo team and are the 2020 Undergraduate Team Winners of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize. Led by Junior Siddharth Iyer, the team developed an improved, more cost-effective embolization treatment for stopping internal bleeding by creating a material that can rapidly expand to fit a wide range […]
Choi is the founder of The New Norm, a sustainable fabric-making start-up in Baltimore City focused on creating new fibers from recycled Solo cups. So far in 2020, Choi and her team have been awarded $26k for placing second in the Bisciotti Foundation Prize for Student Entrepreneurship competition and won the JHU Business Plan Competition […]
Steve Thibault talks about his involvement with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
Professor Evan Ma co-authors a Nature Review Materials article, to review the science and applications of phase- change materials in electronic memory devices and neuro-inspired computing. NRM-PCM(2019) online Jan 7 (002)
Dr. Orla Wilson was selected for the George E. Owen Teaching Award which will be presented at the Dean of Student Life Leadership Awards next week. Accomplishments of students, faculty, and staff leaders are celebrated at the Student Leadership Awards, and with numerous nominations the selection committee is honored to present Dr. Orla Wilson […]
