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Engineering

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

Defocused empty corridor in a hospital.

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

An e-cigarette and smoke

E-cigarettes

Vaping liquids, aerosols contain thousands of unknown chemicals

Published Oct 7, 2021

Study identifies compounds undisclosed by popular brands including industrial chemicals, caffeine

Engineering

Hey Siri, do I have COVID?

Published Oct 4, 2021

New system devised by Whiting School PhD candidate Drew Grant aims to make diagnosing COVID-19 as simple as saying a few words into a smartphone

Innerva team member Michael Lan in the lab

Engineering

Undergrad team named finalist in Collegiate Inventors Competition

Published Sept 13, 2021

Innerva's device helps with the challenges of targeted muscle reinnervation, a surgery facilitating nerve regrowth after amputation

The Maker Buoy floating in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Smart tech

Buoys with a brain

Published Summer 2021

APL's Wayne Pavalko creates custom-designed, 3D-printed buoys that monitor our oceans / Johns Hopkins Magazine

illustration of two people looking up at the night sky

Going interstellar with a sun-skirting probe

Published Spring 2021

APL's Interstellar Probe will slingshot around the sun to explore the outer reaches of the universe / Johns Hopkins Magazine