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White hospital bed in a blue room with darker hospital beds surrounding it
Artificial intelligence
AI for humanity
Published Fall 2025
An AI-based program created by chaplain Elizabeth Tracey and engineering students enables doctors and nurses at Johns Hopkins Hospital to deliver more empathic care / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A a curved strip of flexible gel on a black background
biomolecular engineering
Shape-shifting gels create possibilities for shape-shifting robots
Published Nov 22, 2024
Johns Hopkins engineers have developed gel strips that change shape when given chemical instructions written in DNA code
Jim Bellingham, an older white male, stands in front of a projector and addresses a crowded room
Artificial intelligence
Congressional staffers attend AI policy briefing at Bloomberg Center
Published July 26, 2024
Johns Hopkins experts recently briefed policymakers about the potential of artificial intelligence to advance everything from national security to medicine
Rendering of sickle cells in the bloodstream; they are crescent-shaped instead of round
Biomedical engineering
A less burdensome approach to sickle cell treatment
Published July 18, 2024
A Johns Hopkins team has developed a gene editing approach that could make the treatment of sickle cell disease shorter and less risky, relieving some of the burden on patients
Gregory Hager
Hager to head NSF directorate in information science, engineering
Published March 14, 2024
The directorate supports research in all areas of computer and information science and engineering, as well as advanced research cyberinfrastructure necessary for discovery in all science and engineering fields
Photo of offshore wind turbines in the ocean during sunset
Environmental Health
Investing in offshore wind energy
Published March 4, 2024
JHU and Morgan State researchers team up with the Maryland Energy Administration to grow the local offshore wind industry
Team Awesome from the Waldorf School
Tower of power
Annual contest gets students noodling around
Published Feb 23, 2024
National Engineers Week competition pits area middle schoolers against Hopkins undergrads to build the tallest tower out of pasta and marshmallows
Gianna Murphy, Maya Mann, Ciara Darden, Adeola Ojuade, Kristen Corlay Sanmiguel, and Julia Choe
Undergraduate honors
Sustainable city block earns top-five spot in ASCE competition
Published June 26, 2023
The competition encourages students to learn more about sustainability and challenges them to include sustainable practices in engineering design in a practical way
Hannah Yamagata, Delphine Tan, and Jenlu Pagnotta win the runner-up prize at the Collegiate Inventors Competition.
Collegiate Inventors Competition
Undergrad team wins runner-up prize
Published Oct 13, 2022
Students receive $5,000 for their work on Dynamic Brace, a simpler and more comfortable brace to treat kids born with clubfoot
Delphine Tan, Jenlu Pagnotta, Hannah Yamagata
Collegiate Inventors Competition
Hopkins team among finalists
Published Sept 13, 2022
The team developed a simpler and more comfortable brace to treat kids born with clubfoot