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A little girl learns about buoyancy
City students get a leg up in STEM fields
Published April 30, 2018
Baltimore youngsters benefit from strategic partnerships with Johns Hopkins and Lockheed Martin
Business Plan Competition winners pose for photo
Business plan competition
Hopkins teams take top prizes
Published April 30, 2018
Twenty-seven student teams compete for more than $55,000 in prizes
Alexis Ohanian
Alexis Ohanian on innovation and entrepreneurship
Published April 30, 2018
Reddit co-founder discusses his rise to internet stardom and the advice he gets from wife Serena Williams
Steven Salzberg
Faculty honors
Salzberg elected to American Academy
Published April 27, 2018
Hopkins gene hunter among 213 individuals selected to join honorary society
Artist's rendering of an exoplanet
Planetary science
Super-Earth science
Published April 26, 2018
First-of-their-kind simulations offer insight into what previously had been limited to theoretical calculations
A woman wears a clear plastic mask
Innovators
The new (fully visible) face of surgery
Published April 25, 2018
Hopkins-grown startup ClearMask scores $25K from Social Innovation Lab
Wesley Fuhrman
Hopkins PhD student wins $100,000 fellowship
Published April 24, 2018
Schmidt Science Fellows Program, endowed by former Google CEO, selects Wesley Fuhrman as one of 14 inaugural fellows
Hopkins surgery team
Surgery
Hopkins performs world's first penis transplant
Published April 23, 2018
Recipient is a combat veteran who sustained injuries while serving in Afghanistan
Stadium seats
Brain science
An audience might make you perform better
Published April 20, 2018
Performing a task in front of an audience triggers parts of the brain associated with social cognition, reward, and motor skills, study finds
Four students gather around a petri dish
Undergraduate research
A simple way to stop the bleeding
Published April 17, 2018
Engineering students devise blood-clotting 'super gel' that could make oft-repeated procedures more efficient and economical