Category: Whiting School of Engineering
Scanning for skin cancer: Infrared system looks for melanoma
March 1, 2010
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a noninvasive infrared scanning system to help doctors determine whether pigmented skin growths are benign moles or melanoma, a lethal form of cancer. The prototype system works by looking for the tiny temperature difference between healthy tissue and a growing tumor. The researchers have begun a pilot study of 50 […]
Stressed nanomaterials display unexpected movement
February 1, 2010
Researchers have discovered that, under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in the tiny spaces between the geometric clusters of atoms called nanocrystals, from which they are made. This finding, detailed recently in the journal Science, is important because these nanomaterials are becoming more ubiquitous in the fabrication of microdevices and […]
Engineering for Professionals offers new degree in info assurance
January 19, 2010
A new master of science degree in information assurance is now available through Johns Hopkins’ Engineering for Professionals, the part-time graduate program of the Whiting School of Engineering.
BME holds first Undergraduate Research Day
January 4, 2010
The first Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Research Day was conducted last semester on the Homewood campus to showcase and judge student research projects. Sixteen biomedical engineering undergraduates submitted abstracts and posters focusing on research they had conducted during the past year.
A cell’s ‘cap’ of bundled fibers could yield clues to disease
December 7, 2009
It turns out that wearing a cap is good for you, at least if you are a mammal cell.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center have shown that in healthy cells, a bundled “cap” of filaments holds the cell’s nucleus—its genetic storehouse—in its proper place. Understanding this cap’s influence on cell and nuclear shape, the researchers said, could provide clues to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as cancer, muscular dystrophy and the age-accelerating condition known as progeria.
Insulating film could lead to less-power-hungry screen displays
November 9, 2009
Johns Hopkins materials scientists have found a new use for a chemical compound that has traditionally been viewed as an electrical conductor, a substance that allows electricity to flow through it. By orienting the compound in a different way, the researchers have turned it into a thin film insulator, which instead blocks the flow of electricity but can induce large electric currents elsewhere. The material, called solution-deposited beta-alumina, could have important applications in transistor technology and in devices such as electronic books.
Two new Whiting School Faculty Scholars named
October 26, 2009
Natalia Trayanova and Louis Whitcomb have been selected as the first recipients of two new Faculty Scholar awards in the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins. This designation, awarded for a three-year term, provides exceptional faculty with flexible financial support to promote their research, teaching activities and entrepreneurial thinking.
EP offers certificate in climate change, energy, sustainability
October 19, 2009
A new advanced certificate for post-master’s study in climate change, energy and environmental sustainability is now being offered by Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals, the part-time graduate program of the university’s Whiting School of Engineering.
Mild exercise in ICU reduces bad effects of prolonged bed rest
September 28, 2009
Critical care experts at Johns Hopkins are reporting initial success in boosting recovery and combating muscle wasting among critically ill, mostly bed-bound patients using any one of a trio of mild physical therapy exercises during their stays in the intensive care unit.
Five Johns Hopkins graduate students named Siebel Scholars
September 21, 2009
The California-based Siebel Foundation has selected five Johns Hopkins students from the Whiting School of Engineering and the School of Medicine as recipients of its annual Siebel Scholars awards, which provide $35,000 to each student to be used for the final year of graduate studies.