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Civil engineering

Steel car frames in an automotive manufacturing plant
Engineering
From highways to high-rises: New uses for automotive steel?
Published Sept 30, 2020
'Advanced' automotive steel is four times stronger than standard construction steel and could be used to create more sustainable and resilient buildings
Lauren Gardner
COVID-19
JHU researcher will build new tools to model pandemic's spread
Published June 12, 2020
Civil and systems engineer Lauren Gardner, whose COVID-19 global tracker is now world famous, will help construct databases to better understand how the coronavirus moves from person to person
Civil engineering students
Whiting School
Department of Civil Engineering expands focus
Published Dec 2, 2019
The reimagined Department of Civil and Systems Engineering will focus on identifying solutions to society's 'grand challenges'
MMR vaccine
public health
Analysis predicts U.S. counties at risk for measles outbreaks
Published May 9, 2019
New analysis predicts locations for possible future U.S. outbreaks based on international air travel, vaccination rates, population data
Hurricane as seen from NASA satellites
Climate change, superstorms, and civil engineering
Published Sept 13, 2018
Two Hopkins engineers discuss the critical importance of shoring up America's infrastructure to protect from storms like Florence
Cool beans
Student engineers show can-do attitude
Published Sept 13, 2017
Hopkins team builds life-size replica of Baltimore water taxi out of tin cans for design competition
Anna Scott holds one of the sensor cubes, a white box with black grates for air intake
Climate science
Breathing easier
Published June 27, 2017
Project launched by JHU grad student records Baltimore air quality data for use by researchers, policymakers
Environmental health
A prelude to Flint
Published Sept 22, 2016
Failure to learn lessons a decade earlier led to Flint water crisis, scientist Marc Edwards says
Keeping life lines open after a natural disaster
Published Aug 27, 2014
JHU team part of NSF-funded effort to keep critical community services afloat after natural disasters
Next top model?
Planning for disasters
Published Oct 28, 2013
JHU-led project aims to help region better withstand hurricanes, heat waves