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Jami Valentine Miller
Physics pioneer
Published Summer 2021
Physicist Jami Valentine Miller created African American Women in Physics, AAWIP.com, to celebrate her colleagues / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A man hangs over the edge of a boat, deploying an Argo float into the ocean
Project Argo
Published Summer 2021
Inside the oceans, autonomous floats take the temperature and pulse of our changing saltwater world. Two Hopkins alums helped send this fleet on its way. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Global warming
Currents of change
Published Summer 2021
The complex relationship between climate change and the oceans already affects our lives, and as the planet warms, we haven't seen the worst of it / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Extreme robotics
Deep down below
Published Summer 2021
For almost three decades, Whiting School Professor Louis Whitcomb has developed tools and vehicles that enable oceanographers to explore once-unreachable depths / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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Vaccines
Will we need a COVID-19 booster?
Published July 1, 2021
In the 'L.A. Times,' Johns Hopkins vaccine expert Kawsar Talaat discusses factors that may determine whether boosters are needed / Los Angeles Times
A student makes adjustments to a turbine in a test wind tunnel
Student research
Hopkins team earns second place at Collegiate Wind Competition
Published June 30, 2021
In the university's first appearance at the annual competition, the Hopkins Student Wind Energy Team received praise for their miniature dual-rotor, counter-rotating wind turbine
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Q+A
Will COVID-19 resurge in the fall?
Published June 29, 2021
Infectious disease modelers explore how COVID-19 could play out in the next six months
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Cognitive science
Study: The most curious babies become the most curious toddlers
Published June 28, 2021
Infants' responses to surprising events like magic tricks are linked to later cognitive ability, researchers find
Wind turbines in the North Sea
Energy
Research project aims to make offshore wind farms more efficient, powerful
Published June 28, 2021
Ocean-based wind farms have the potential to meet 90% of the nation's energy demands by 2050, but work must be done to understand the many environmental factors that will affect energy production by offshore farms
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Artificial Intelligence
Safer AI
Published June 24, 2021
Johns Hopkins engineers take part in five-year Department of Defense project to make AI-based autonomous systems more reliable and secure