Materials Science and Engineering professor, Timothy Weihs, has been selected by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to receive a Fulbright award to New Zealand. Next year, Weihs is planning to take a 12-month sabbatical to the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. While there, he will focus on activities centered around three main […]
The WISE program aims to encourage young women to pursue education and careers in STEM through research experience in areas including chemical engineering, materials science, and computer science.
When materials scientists want to create steel with specific properties—say, a certain combination of strength, hardness, and fracture resistance—they know how to approach the problem. They can add carbon and other elements to the iron in just the right quantities, and they can adjust the heat-treating process. Those interventions will have predictable effects because most […]
Dr. Kalina Hristova’s lab recently published a paper focusing on the use of the pH of proteins to form permeable areas within membranes that would allow medication to pass through. This week, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS) has chosen the paper to be featured as a highlight. The paper includes work contributed by […]
In a new Journal of Biological Chemistry paper, Kalina Hristova‘s research group presents a new methodology for the study of membrane protein interactions, alongside experimental data about the membrane proteins that regulate skeletal development. This new methodology represents an advance for membrane protein research, which has been limited by the capabilities of currently available experimental […]
On February 24, 2017, the first Mid-Atlantic Biomaterials Day will take place at the City College of New York. Hosted in conjunction with Rutgers University, University of Rochester, Columbia University, and the City College of New York, the Johns Hopkins chapter of the Society for Biomaterials hopes to use the event to foster collaboration and […]
Theodore “Ted” Poehler, who served the Johns Hopkins University community for more than six decades in a number of important roles—including as Vice Provost for Research and as a faculty member in our Department of Materials Science and Engineering—died on December 11 at the age of 81.
Assistant professor Martin Ulmschneider‘s article, entitled Spontaneous formation of structurally diverse membrane channel architectures from a single antimicrobial peptide, on experimentally guided molecular dynamic simulations to understand the ability to produce spontaneous pore assembly and structurally diverse membrane channel architectures. Professor Ulmschneider collaborated with Yukun Wang, Charles H. Chen, Dan Hu, and Jakob P. Ulmschneider on […]
Thomson Reuters has released its annual list of leading researchers in the sciences and social sciences from around the world. This marks the third time Professor Evan Ma has been featured on this list. The 2016 Highly Cited Researchers list includes 13 Johns Hopkins University scientists whose publications are among the top one percent in […]
The American Physical Society has elected Kalina Hristova, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, to its 2016 class of Fellows.
