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Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and the Ralph S. O’Connor Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Fund has provided funding for six student startups to develop and launch their tech platforms.

In the latest rankings from U.S. News & World Report, Johns Hopkins maintained its spot in the top twenty-five schools in the country in the categories of Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs and Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology Programs.

Students will have the opportunity to critically review cutting edge research papers, research and analyze genomic data, learn about different stages of epigenetic analysis, and draw their own conclusions using modern computational tools.

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 the Department of Materials Science and Engineering—died on December 11 at the age of 81.

Jay Gould, a professor of photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art, traded his Mount Vernon studio for space in the Whiting School of Engineering’s Malone Hall in 2016 as the first Artist-in-Residence for the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute.

Ciaran Harman, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, has been appointed the Russell Croft Faculty Scholar.

Dennice Gayme, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the Carol Croft Linde Faculty Scholar.

Researchers earn this distinction by writing papers that rank among the top 1 percent most-often cited in their field and year of publication.

Ten local startups will get a boost through this year’s Social Innovation Lab run by Johns Hopkins University. The finalists, announced this week, range in focus from telemedicine and teacher burnout to revitalizing Baltimore’s vacant lots.

The Whiting School community mourns the death of David A. Robinson, a founding member of Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Suchi Saria, associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, presented her research yesterday at the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh.

In the 2017 U.S. News and World Report rankings of the nations top undergraduate programs, Johns Hopkins remains 10th in national universities and the Whiting School of Engineering moved up to number 14.