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Engineering

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Whiting School, Applied Physics Lab launch multimillion-dollar SURPASS initiative

Published March 29, 2022

Up to five projects will be funded during the first year; total funding could one day exceed $100 million in external support

Chasing space

Published Feb 2, 2022

Whiting School alum and former APL employee Andre Douglas is one of 10 astronaut candidates who recently began training with NASA, the culmination of a life spent dreaming of the stars

two polaroids overlapping—one has an image of a plane, the other has a goose

Avian-inspired engineering

Published Winter 2021

The lightweight, adaptable, irregular structure of bird bones could provide a blueprint for better aerospace and automotive materials / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Engineering

Master's students develop ideas to improve hospital safety

Published Nov 4, 2021

Since its inception in 2015, the interdisciplinary project through the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has prompted meaningful changes in hospital protocol

T-cells attacking tumor cells, a process facilitated by immunotherapy

Cancer research

Pioneering method examines how immunotherapy changes tumors

Published Oct 13, 2021

The non-invasive technique using an optical probe provides early signs of how a tumor is responding to treatment

An illustration of neural fragility in the brain

Engineering

Targeting epilepsy with surgical precision

Published Oct 11, 2021

A new method of highlighting the most epileptic parts of the brain could enable not only more accurate diagnosis of the seizure disorder, but also help guide more precise surgical treatment