Category: Whiting School of Engineering
EP develops three new online grad courses for BRAC workers
September 7, 2009
Three online courses in systems engineering, designed to prepare workers for jobs coming to Maryland through the federal Base Realignment and Closure process, are being launched by Engineering for Professionals, the part-time graduate program of the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. The new master’s level courses, all developed by EP faculty, are Software Systems […]
Computational process zeroes in on top genetic cancer suspects
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins engineers have devised innovative computer software that can sift through hundreds of genetic mutations and highlight the DNA changes that are most likely to promote cancer. The goal is to provide critical help to researchers who are poring over numerous newly discovered gene mutations, many of which are harmless or have no connection […]
LEGOs show researchers what happens inside lab-on-a-chip
August 31, 2009
Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children’s toy to help them visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to re-create microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more […]
Applied Math and Statistics receives GAANN funding
August 17, 2009
The Whiting School of Engineering’s Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics has received funding to support graduate education in mathematics through the U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need Program. The award will support four GAANN fellows for three years as they pursue doctorates at Johns Hopkins.
Enrollment spikes at Homewood
August 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins officials, like colleagues at many other elite private colleges and universities across the nation, expected a lower than normal yield (the percentage of accepted students who enroll) because of the economy. Despite projections to the contrary, the incoming Homewood undergraduate class of 2013 will be significantly larger than expected, a reality that has prompted university officials to respond in a variety of ways to meet student needs.
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students embed stem cells in sutures
August 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have demonstrated a practical way to embed a patient’s own adult stem cells in the surgical thread that doctors use to repair serious orthopedic injuries such as ruptured tendons. The goal, the students said, is to enhance healing and reduce the likelihood of re-injury without changing the surgical procedure itself.
New sanitizer reduces infections, cuts back on costly disposables
August 3, 2009
Johns Hopkins experts in applied physics, computer engineering, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, microbiology, pathology and surgery have unveiled a 7-foot-tall, $10,000 shower cubicle–shaped device that automatically sanitizes in 30 minutes all sorts of hard-to-clean equipment in a highly trafficked hospital Emergency Department. The novel device can sanitize and disinfect equipment of all shapes and sizes, […]
Two Johns Hopkins faculty members receive 2009 White House early career awards
July 20, 2009
Two Johns Hopkins faculty members are among the 100 winners of this year’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Saluting gifted hands and minds
July 6, 2009
The university’s Black Faculty and Staff Association recently paid tribute to two of Johns Hopkins’ own legendary figures at its fifth annual celebration of Juneteenth, the unofficial holiday commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States.
INBT hosts series of professional development seminars for students
June 8, 2009
The Johns Hopkins Institute for NanoBioTechnology will host four seminars for future scientists and engineers this summer, to expand students’ knowledge of issues and ideas outside of the laboratory and classroom experience.