Skip to main content

Johns Hopkins UniversityEst. 1876

America’s First Research University
Archived articles

Science+Technology

Server room
Q+A
Creating a culture of cybersecurity
Published Nov 18, 2021
In advance of his book Confronting Cyber Risk, engineer Gregory Falco discusses how and why organizations should incorporate cybersecurity into everyday business and planning
Thale Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana)
Genetics
Uncovering the secrets of a model plant genome
Published Nov 15, 2021
Results have implications for understanding human genes, says Michael Schatz, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Biology
Senior couple on a day hike in forest
Artificial intelligence
$20M grant will help develop technologies for healthy aging
Published Nov 15, 2021
Multicenter collaboration will focus on the use of artificial intelligence to improve long-term health, independence for older people
Solar panels
Sustainability
Researchers will use power of AI to optimize materials for solar energy
Published Nov 5, 2021
SPIRAL Center is one of 10 projects to receive support from Department of Energy initiative focused on the development of low-cost energy technologies
Defocused empty corridor in a hospital.
Engineering
Master's students develop ideas to improve hospital safety
Published Nov 4, 2021
Since its inception in 2015, the interdisciplinary project through the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has prompted meaningful changes in hospital protocol
Hackled orb weaver spider in a web
behavioral biology
Spiders' web secrets unraveled
Published Nov 2, 2021 Video
Krieger School researchers first to document every step of spider-web building
X-Ray of human brain. Transparent and detailed with soft blue swaps.
Engineering
Mapping the brain to make surgery safer
Published Oct 22, 2021
Naresh Nandakumar is developing a painless, non-invasive approach using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to locate the eloquent cortex
Psychedelic mushrooms in colorful light
Psychedelics
Hopkins gets first NIH grant in 50 years for psychedelic treatment research
Published Oct 20, 2021
The nearly $4 million NIH grant will fund a multisite study of the effects of "magic mushrooms" and talk therapy on quitting smoking
image of graphene
Engineering
Hopkins, Morgan State partner on 2D materials
Published Oct 15, 2021
JHU and Morgan State partner to launch a center that will develop novel two-dimensional materials
Xiongyi Huang and lab members working on a fluorescent experiment
Faculty news
Krieger School chemist wins prestigious Packard Fellowship
Published Oct 14, 2021
Xiongyi Huang, an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, works to bridge the worlds of biology and synthetic chemistry to develop new, affordable, and sustainable processes for chemical synthesis and drug development