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The award recognizes outstanding early-career faculty researchers, and challenges them to examine the theoretical feasibility of ideas and approaches critical for space travel.

The award will provide support for Li’s research on helping scientists better understand how creatures such as lizards and insects traverse complex topographies.

The event is the final challenge of the four-week Engineering Innovation program, an immersive, pre-college summer experience offered through JHU’s Whiting School of Engineering.

More than 400 high school students will take part in Engineering Innovation’s Spaghetti Bridge Competition.

This summer, the Engineering Innovation immersive program is being held at 12 sites, from California and Ohio to Pennsylvania and Maryland.

Inez Lam and Natalia Majewska, both first-year Johns Hopkins University PhD students, have been selected as the first PhD candidates to participate in the Johns Hopkins-MedImmune Scholars Program.

ASM International has elected Timothy P. Weihs, professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as a Fellow of the Society.

Eight Whiting School researchers are among the early-career faculty members selected to receive Johns Hopkins University’s Catalyst Awards.

Winning projects—chosen from 188 proposals—include 86 individuals representing 9 Hopkins schools and affiliates.

Michael Miller is an international leader in medical imaging and brain mapping, having pioneered the field of computational anatomy as a modern theory of human anatomical shape and form.

Nitish Thakor, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2017 IEEE EMBS Academic Career Achievement Award.

Joelle Frechette, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been elected to the American Chemical Society’s 2017 Class of Fellows.