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Jean Fan
Research matters
University labs help power America's biotech innovation ecosystem
Published July 30, 2025
Hopkins researcher Jean Fan and her team create open-source tools that help bridge the gap between academic discoveries and lifesaving treatments. Cuts to federal funding threaten to break this critical research and development pipeline.
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Q&A
Finding the virtue in AI
Published Summer 2025
Feeling uneasy about the rise of AI? Microsoft data scientist and Whiting School alum Lavista Ferres finds virtue in the technology and is more bullish about than bullied by its rise. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Two children speak to a chatbot on a cellphone.
Artificial intelligence
Talking robots learn to manage human interruptions
Published July 30, 2025
Johns Hopkins computer scientists designed an interruption-handling system to facilitate more natural conversations with social robots
Clockwise from top left: Jacob Bernstein, Chikako Mese, Emily Riehl, and Ziquan Zhuang
Faculty honors
Four from Hopkins to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians
Published July 30, 2025
Held every four years, the congress is considered the top showcase for new developments in math
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Nuclear plants too expensive? China shows low-cost construction possible
July 28, 2025
Daniel Kammen
Renewable energy expert Daniel Kammen joins Johns Hopkins
July 29, 2025
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Sweat science: A patch to detect TBI
June 26, 2025

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Jean Fan
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Featured topic: cybersecurity

Michael Rushanan teaches the cybersecurity class
Cybersecurity
Hopkins students thwart fitness tracker hackers
Published May 20, 2025
In a new course, students prepare for the FDA's ramped up security requirements for insulin pumps, pacemakers, and other wearables
Anton Dahbura
3 Questions
Why might the U.S. ban TikTok?
Published March 25, 2024
Hopkins cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura explains the proposed regulation and the threats the app could pose to Americans
An illustration of a person using a phone and being spied on
Expert Opinion
Is TikTok stealing more than just your time?
Published Dec 21, 2022
Cybersecurity expert Anton Dahbura discusses growing concerns with the popular app, citing potential data theft as a risk to U.S. security
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Cybersecurity
Computer scientist identifies JavaScript vulnerability in thousands of websites
Published March 14, 2022
ProbeTheProto framework helps identify and alert websites vulnerable to a flaw that allows malicious actors to 'pollute' important web code
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Cybersecurity
Now's the time to protect your computer networks from cyberattack
Published March 4, 2022
Anton Dahbura from the Information Security Institute suggests that individuals and enterprises should take steps now to secure cyber systems against attack from Russian agents
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Clockwise from top left: Jacob Bernstein, Chikako Mese, Emily Riehl, and Ziquan Zhuang
Faculty honors
Four from Hopkins to speak at the International Congress of Mathematicians
Published July 30, 2025
Held every four years, the congress is considered the top showcase for new developments in math
Jean Fan
Research matters
University labs help power America's biotech innovation ecosystem
Published July 30, 2025
Hopkins researcher Jean Fan and her team create open-source tools that help bridge the gap between academic discoveries and lifesaving treatments. Cuts to federal funding threaten to break this critical research and development pipeline.
Two children speak to a chatbot on a cellphone.
Artificial intelligence
Talking robots learn to manage human interruptions
Published July 30, 2025
Johns Hopkins computer scientists designed an interruption-handling system to facilitate more natural conversations with social robots
Daniel Kammen
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Renewable energy expert Daniel Kammen joins Johns Hopkins
Published July 29, 2025
Kammen brings decades of experience developing scalable, equitable energy solutions and designing policy frameworks that support sustainable development worldwide
A nuclear power plant in China at dusk
Energy+climate
Nuclear plants too expensive? China shows low-cost construction possible
Published July 28, 2025
China's approach could offer a pathway to break the 'cost curse'
Annie Kathuria and her research team have grown a novel whole-brain organoid, complete with neural tissues and rudimentary blood vessels—an advance that could usher in a new era of research into neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism.
Biomedical engineering
Hopkins scientists grow novel 'whole-brain' organoid
Published July 25, 2025
Advance could usher in new era of research for schizophrenia, autism, Alzheimer's, and other neurological diseases
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Environmental health
New carbon capture method improves sewage treatment process
Published July 23, 2025
By adding an electrical current to trigger chemical reactions, Johns Hopkins researchers have devised a way to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
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Hopkins in the news
ICYMI: National media explores effects of federal research cuts
Published July 22, 2025
Hopkins cancer expert Liz Jaffee discusses what federal budget cuts might mean for patient care and future cures; NIH grant terminations affect some of the nation's most promising young scientists, including two Hopkins doctoral students
Black and white image of spacecraft on the lunar surface
Engineers study little-known hazard of lunar landings
Published July 21, 2025
Working with NASA, Hopkins engineers crack the code behind radiating dust patterns
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Environmental health
Curtis Bay air pollution linked to coal terminal activity, wind
Published July 21, 2025
Findings suggest that existing coal dust mitigation measures are insufficient
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