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Nilabh Shastri
Pioneering immunologist joins Hopkins faculty
Published Dec 12, 2018
Nilabh Shastri becomes university's 38th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor after spending past 30 years pursuing immune surveillance research at UC Berkeley
Riccardo Giacconi
In memoriam
Visionary astrophysicist Riccardo Giacconi dies at 87
Published Dec 12, 2018
He joined the Hopkins faculty in 1981, was a co-recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in physics
Students participate in mechanical engineering design competition
Mechanical engineering
An on-ramp to creative design
Published Dec 11, 2018
First-year mechanical engineering students take their design skills for a spin in annual competition
Illustration of an octopus in a tank
IDEA
Making an octopus cuddly
Published Winter 2018
Study finds that humans and octopuses have a molecular mechanism in the brain that binds to MDMA—revealing evolutionary links between the two species / Johns Hopkins Magazine
On and off switch
cybersecurity
Grid locked
Published Winter 2018
Johns Hopkins computer scientists develop a tool to protect power grids from cyberattacks / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mars
Space
IDing Mars' dust
Published Winter 2018
Planetary scientists believe they've identified the origin of the powdery dust on Mars: a formation that could be the largest known volcanic deposit in the solar system / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of knifefish
New cool tools
Do researchers dream of electric fish?
Published Winter 2018
Professor Noah Cowan and his team devise a way to study the evasive knifefish / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Allysa Dittmar (right) and Aaron Hsu
Clearly a better mask
Published Winter 2018
Alums Allysa Dittmar and Aaron Hsu are reinventing the surgical mask / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Women speak with each other in a workshop
Rising stars
Workshop for women in research
Published Dec 5, 2018
The Rising Stars workshop, founded at MIT, puts the achievements of female researchers in the spotlight
Electric fish
Fish findings
Should robots think like electric fish?
Published Nov 30, 2018
Study sheds light on how animals use active sensing behaviors to navigate the world around them