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A student shows off PulseApe while standing in front of a chimpanzee in the Maryland Zoo
Engineering
Easy EKG for a chimpanzee
Published April 26, 2024
Whiting School undergraduates created PulseApe: a primate-friendly trapeze bar fitted with EKG sensors to capture the chimps' heart activity while they play and swing
Curious little white laboratory mouse looking out of a cage and a hand of a researcher
Animal cognition
'Surprisingly strategic' mice think like babies
Published April 26, 2024
Findings by Johns Hopkins neuroscientists deepen our understanding of animal cognition
Students from the Johns Hopkins Multidisciplinary Engineering Design course showcase their bobcat feeding system in front of the bobcat enclosure at the Maryland Zoo
Design day
Solving puzzles for prey at the Maryland Zoo
Published April 26, 2024
Johns Hopkins undergraduate engineers bring the thrill of the hunt to bobcats Kilgore and Josie with their high-tech take on the classic 'Whac-A-Mole' arcade game
Visit to the Markland Dam on the Ohio River near Cincinnati (L to R): Grace Mazur, course TA Trifeena James, Alissa Burkholder Murphy
Engineering
Student team competes in national hydropower challenge
Published April 25, 2024
Johns Hopkins students' multidisciplinary, fish-friendly design aims to unlock untapped energy source
Four college students prepare scientific equipment on a dock next to the water.
Environmental Engineering
Student engineers flex their mussels to fight nutrient pollution
Published April 25, 2024
A team of undergraduates partnered with Baltimore City to clean up Back River and the Patapsco
Muyinatu “Bisi” Bell
Faculty honors
Muyinatu Bell receives Alan T. Waterman Award
Published April 24, 2024
Recognized for her pioneering research spanning photoacoustic and ultrasound imaging, Bell is first Hopkins winner in the award's 48-year history
Filling up a glass of water
3 questions
EPA phases out PFAS
Published April 19, 2024
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency imposes first-ever regulations limiting chemicals known as PFAS, or forever chemicals, in drinking water
Clockwise from left: Takanari Inoue, Patricia Janak, Rejji Kuruvilla, Cynthia L. Sears, Akira Sawa, and Robert Moffitt
Faculty honors
Six from Hopkins named AAAS Fellows
Published April 18, 2024
They are among 502 distinguished scholars recognized this year as fellows of the American Association of the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society
Lidia Al-Zogbi
Artificial intelligence
Robot tackles trauma's silent killer
Published April 16, 2024
Autonomous system devised by a Johns Hopkins doctoral student IDs and treats internal bleeding to prevent pre-hospital deaths when minutes matter
Peter Agre
3 Questions
How science can help countries forge unlikely connections
Published April 12, 2024
By finding common ground in science, nations with otherwise strained relationships can build ties and establish friendships, says Nobel laureate and science diplomat Peter Agre