Category: Whiting School of Engineering
Nanomagic to super synapses: JHU exhibits at Science Fest
October 18, 2010
Six teams of Johns Hopkins researchers with expertise in nanotechnology, particle physics and other fields will participate this weekend in an ambitious event centered on the National Mall in Washington: a mammoth exposition at the inaugural USA Science and Engineering Festival. The free two-day expo on the National Mall and in surrounding areas will feature […]
Rai Winslow of BME named inaugural Raj and Neera Singh Professor
October 4, 2010
Rai Winslow, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, will be named the inaugural Raj and Neera Singh Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in a ceremony scheduled at 4 p.m. today, Oct. 4, in Mason Hall on the Homewood campus. As director of the institute, Winslow oversees an […]
Building rededicated as Hackerman Hall
September 20, 2010
Students, faculty members and friends gathered last week on the Homewood campus to celebrate the renaming of a high-tech research building to recognize the philanthropic support of the university by alumnus Willard Hackerman. The Computational Science and Engineering Building, which opened on the Decker Quad in 2008 as a headquarters for advanced interdisciplinary research crossing […]
WSE names Dexter G. Smith associate dean for EP programs
September 13, 2010
Dexter G. Smith has been appointed the Whiting School of Engineering’s associate dean for Engineering for Professionals, which offers part-time education for working engineers and scientists. The appointment is effective Oct. 1. Smith, who has been affiliated with Johns Hopkins since 1995, currently serves as a member of the principal professional staff of the university’s […]
NCI grant launches nanotech cancer center
September 7, 2010
Faculty members associated with the Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology have received a $13.6 million five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. The new Johns Hopkins center brings together a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers and physicians to develop nanotechnology-based diagnostic platforms and therapeutic strategies for comprehensive […]
Five BME doctoral candidates named 2011 Siebel Scholars
September 7, 2010
One graduate student is helping to create high-tech prosthetic hands that can be maneuvered by an amputee’s thoughts. Another is trying to convert ordinary skin cells into more useful stem cells. Still another is working to find signs of cancer in a single DNA molecule in a drop of blood. Yet another is making nanoparticles […]
Whiting School of Engineering building is named for Hackerman
August 30, 2010
The Johns Hopkins University’s Computational Science and Engineering Building will be named Hackerman Hall in recognition of a lifetime of philanthropic support of the university and its Whiting School of Engineering by alumnus Willard Hackerman. The building, a headquarters for advanced interdisciplinary research crossing the borders of engineering, computer science, mathematics and medicine, will be […]
A ringing endorsement
August 30, 2010
The Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering student team that won the $20,000 grand prize in the 2010 Wharton Business Plan Competition at the University of Pennsylvania received another honor for its invention last week: the opportunity to preside over the NASDAQ Closing Bell. The Cortical Concepts team, which developed a spinal surgery device that increases the […]
Civil engineer assesses damage to Chile’s hospitals
April 5, 2010
Judith Mitrani-Reiser, an assistant research professor of civil engineering in Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering, recently spent a week in Chile looking at how well buildings and infrastructure had withstood the magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the nation on Feb. 27. Mitrani-Reiser studies safety and economic issues associated with structures, how structural risks can […]
Dean Nick Jones of the Whiting School of Engineering
March 29, 2010
This is the third in a yearlong series of talks with the leaders of Johns Hopkins’ nine academic divisions and the Applied Physics Laboratory. Nicholas P. “Nick” Jones hails from the bridge-building tradition of engineers—and he’s proud of it. Yet as the Benjamin T. Rome Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering, Jones has led […]