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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.

David Van Wie, an aerospace engineer at APL and a research professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Vladimir Braverman, an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been chosen by the National Science Foundation for its prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.

Michael D. Shields, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, has been chosen by the National Science Foundation for its prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.

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.

Ciaran Harman has been selected by the National Science Foundation to receive its prestigious CAREER Award, which recognizes early stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence.

Rene Vidal, professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been named a 2016 Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

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.

An advertising campaign for the 2017 Acura ILX created by a student-run advertising agency at the Whiting School’s Center for Leadership Education took home third place last week in the 2017 Acura ILX Marketing Challenge.

Baensch received a BA in Economics and Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1989.

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.