32 interdisciplinary research teams receive Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards
June 14, 2019
Winning project teams—chosen from a record 222 proposals—include 120 individuals from across the university.
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33 early-career faculty members receive Johns Hopkins Catalyst Awards
June 6, 2019
Six award recipients are from the Whiting School of Engineering.
Hopkins students teach robots to explore, collaborate, and suture
May 28, 2019
On a recent afternoon, robots zipped through hallways, navigated obstacle courses, and even solved jigsaw puzzles.
Fulbright grants awarded to record number of Johns Hopkins students
May 14, 2019
Award programs allow students to study, conduct research, and teach abroad.
Hopkins engineering talent on display at annual Design Day
May 6, 2019
Hopkins students design and engineer unique mechanical solutions during Design Day.
Engineering students build high-tech mini golf course
May 2, 2019
It was pure and putter madness in Levering Hall on Saturday. First-year mechanical engineering students, in the culminating project of their spring semester, constructed a 17-hole, high-tech miniature golf course designed to dazzle and delight visitors of JHU’s annual Spring Fair. “You have to hit the ball harder than you think,” student Joe Somerville advised one […]
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3/8/19: If We Blow Up an Asteroid, It Might Put Itself Back Together, MechE/HEMI’s KT Ramesh, The New York Times
March 13, 2019
The New York Times reports on Johns Hopkins engineers’ efforts to model scenarios for breaking up or interrupting the path of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.
Johns Hopkins graduate programs again ranked among the nation’s best
March 12, 2019
Public health, nursing, medicine, biomedical engineering maintain top positions in annual ‘U.S. News’ rankings of the Best Graduate Schools; education, engineering programs move up.
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3/5/19: Why saving Earth from a rogue asteroid might be harder than we thought, MechE’s KT Ramesh, NBC News MACH
March 5, 2019
A Johns Hopkins study used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions.
Breaking up is hard to do: Asteroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thought
March 4, 2019
The findings can aid in the creation of asteroid impact and deflection strategies, increase understanding of solar system formation and help design asteroid mining efforts.
