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Three materials science and engineering students have been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships by the National Science Foundation. The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports exemplary graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who demonstrate excellence in their pursuit of research-based master’s and doctoral degrees. As NSF fellows, David Beaudry, Hao (Nick) Zhang and Siddharth…

It’s a good thing DMSE PhD candidate Adam Peters’ research focuses on materials for extreme conditions because, lately, his hard work in the lab has him on a hot streak. Most recently, Peters took first place in the student award competition at the 2020 National Space and Missile Materials Symposium for his oral presentation entitled…

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…

This semester, the Department of Defense awarded second-year Ph.D. candidate, Jenna Krynicki, the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship. The NDSEG Fellowship is sponsored by the Army, Navy, and Air Force and is awarded to individuals seeking to obtain a doctoral degree in a STEM field, who have exhibited academic excellence in STEM.…

Students and faculty talk about life in quarantine, finishing the 2019/2020 academic year online, and how they’re adjusting.   Juliana Feng Junior DMSE Student “I think I’ve adjusted pretty well – I love home!” With classes meeting via Zoom at normal times, Juliana says her daily schedule hasn’t changed too much and she’s keeping herself…

  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…

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.

Students identify metal artifact in Homewood Museum collection as century-old part of building's roof.

Meet Dr. Erin Gallagher, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for NanoBioTechnology who graduated with her PhD in May 2019 from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Whiting School of Engineering. During her PhD studies, this Hopkins engineer studied nerve agent antidote delivery to the brain in Peter Searson’s research laboratory. Erin has…

  Suhas Eswarappa Prameela was awarded the best poster award at this years 2019 Mach Conference in Annapolis Maryland. Suhas’s research in Tim Weihs’ lab is focused on developing better lightweight armor materials for the US Army. Conventional heat treatment of Magnesium alloys causes long, thin intermetallic particles to precipitate throughout the alloy. These particles…

Two Hopkins students in Professor Tim Weihs’ research lab have a connection to Johns Hopkins University through the Department of Materials Science and Engineering that dates back to the 1980’s. Jenna Krynicki, a PhD candidate in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, and Randall Elkind, an undergraduate in the Mechanical Engineering Department, are following in…