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Four women stand behind a braille printer
Mechanical engineering
Students create braille printer for local nonprofit
Published June 26, 2025
Engineering students built a braille printer to be operated by blind and visually impaired workers in Baltimore
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Three from Hopkins join National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 8, 2022
Krishan Sabnani, Ru Chih Huang, and Saraswati Sukumar are among 169 academic inventors selected for membership into the prestigious society this year
Marie Eric and Tyler Guarino show a burrito
Student Success
Stuck on Tastee Tape
Published Nov 10, 2022 Video
When four Hopkins students presented their Design Day product, they didn't expect the media to pick it up and give it viral attention. Months later, the students are alumnae, and the future of the product is bright.
Interior of JHTV
Tech ventures
Three teams receive grants from Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund
Published March 10, 2022
Three research teams received grants from the Bisciotti Foundation Translational Fund to advance their commercially viable invention concepts
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Three from Hopkins named to National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 20, 2021
Cardiologist Ronald Berger, neurologist Ted Dawson, and biomedical engineer Jordan Green are among 164 selected to join the academy this year
Artist's rendering of the Neisseria gonorrhea bacteria
Medical devices
Johns Hopkins develops portable device for rapidly diagnosing STIs
Published May 12, 2021
The low-cost device matches the specificity and sensitivity of current hospital tests, and can detect which strains of disease may become resistant to antibiotics
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Tech Ventures
Four Johns Hopkins discoveries head to commercial path
Published March 15, 2021
Four Johns Hopkins professors are pursuing commercial paths for their discoveries
Inventor Jessamy Taylor sits in front of a boulder at Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park
Tinkerer, climber, engineer
Published Spring 2021
Alum and inventor Jessamy Taylor loves being outdoors, scaling heights, and solving problems. Among them: a better way to adaptive climb / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Polair mask
Engineering
The future of face masks
Published Dec 22, 2020
Student engineering team wins $250,000 for adaptable surgical mask design in XPRIZE competition
National Academy of Inventors
Faculty honors
Five Johns Hopkins faculty named to National Academy of Inventors
Published Dec 8, 2020
Ramalingam Chellappa, Valina Dawson, Sharon Gerecht, Carol Greider, and Nitish Thakor are recognized for their inventions, discoveries, and breakthroughs that have made a difference in society