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Nneka N'namdi, Alex Riehm, and Danna Thomas
Tech Ventures
Former city schoolteacher wins $15K for her 'happiness revolution'
Published May 1, 2019
Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab also awards $10K to Fight Blight Bmore at its year-end celebration
Mini-golfers play putt-putt
Mechanical engineering
Putt-putt in paradise
Published May 1, 2019
Engineering students build high-tech miniature golf course with a tropical flair for Spring Fair
Girl high five each other
COMMUNITY
This is how you hackathon
Published May 1, 2019
Mini-MedHacks brings city students to the East Baltimore campus for a day of problem-solving, design, and creativity
Composite image of three NAS members
Faculty honors
Three from Hopkins named to National Academy of Sciences
Published April 30, 2019
Marc Kamionkowski, Robert Moffitt, and Cynthia Wolberger are among 125 honored for their excellence in science
Hubble image of distant Serpens Nebula
Astrophysics
Mystery of how fast our universe is expanding grows
Published April 25, 2019
As scientists refine Hubble measurements, the disparity between the calculated and expected rate of universe expansion widens
Ithemba team photo
Undergraduate research
BME students win $10K prize for young inventors
Published April 24, 2019 Video
Team Ithemba, named after the Zulu word meaning 'hope,' earn Lemelson-MIT award for their low-cost breast cancer screening tool
Melissa Mai
Student scholar
Senior named Hertz Graduate Fellow
Published April 19, 2019
Two graduate research fellowships will fund 100% of her studies while she pursues a PhD in biophysics at Harvard beginning this fall
Group photo
Undergraduate research
Team aims to make at-home dialysis safer
Published April 12, 2019
Biomedical engineering undergrads raise more than $25,000 in cash prizes from competitions, grant programs, and incubators for their design
Feinberg and Rizzardi aboard the Vomit Comet
Study looks at how astronaut's body changed in space
Published April 11, 2019
JHU's Andrew Feinberg finds that after year-long NASA mission to the International Space Station, astronaut Scott Kelly had no lingering, major epigenetic differences from his earthbound twin, Mark
Brain illustration
Brain science
Why MDMA may help treat PTSD
Published April 4, 2019
In mouse study, MDMA is shown to reactivate a learning period for social rewards, allowing test subjects to form positive associations where none existed before