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Q+A

Can we trust AI?

Published March 6, 2023

From Alexa to a robot running amok in the movie 'M3GAN', artificial intelligence is part of everyday life and is capturing our imagination. Johns Hopkins AI expert Rama Chellappa helps us sort out fact from fiction, and whether we should embrace the 'AI spring'.

Faculty spotlight

Lyme disease expert named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Published Dec 19, 2022

Nicole Baumgarth, whose background blends immunology, veterinary medicine, and infectious disease, serves as inaugural director of the Lyme and Tickborne Diseases Research and Education Institute

Faculty spotlight

Celebrated cancer researcher Chi Van Dang returns to Johns Hopkins

Published Nov 14, 2022

The alumnus and former faculty member of the School of Medicine has been named the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of cancer medicine

Voices

Commentary: It's time to stop creating 'superbugs' in the lab

Published Nov 1, 2022

Johns Hopkins computational biologist Steven Salzberg says Boston University study that created a new form of the omicron coronavirus variant should never have happened

Biology

Michael Schatz among 'TIME 100'

Published May 23, 2022

Computational biologist recognized for his contributions to the first complete sequencing of the human genome

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Interdisciplinary research

Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships program to double in size

Published Dec 14, 2021

Additional 50 scholars will join the university, primarily in crucial fields such as artificial intelligence, the health effects of climate change, racial equity, neuroscience, and pandemic preparedness and response