Tool Weighs Potential Health, Economic Tradeoffs in Pandemic Response
Inspired by tensions between health and financial well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, a new model could significantly improve predictions of how disease will spread by acknowledging the tradeoffs...
View ArticleSymposium Spotlights AI’s Potential to Revolutionize Healthcare
It’s a conundrum: “By 2035, the number of surgeries performed in the United States is expected to double, yet our country already faces a major surgeon shortage,” mechanical engineer Axel Krieger said...
View ArticleResearch Meets Reality
During his senior year as an undergraduate at Yale, Drew Prinster completed a global health certificate program. His capstone project focused on the use of AI tools to predict patient diagnoses and...
View ArticleRobot Performs First Realistic Surgery Without Human Help
A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation,...
View ArticleSteering Autism Research with Sensory Science
Just as the new Brad Pitt film F1 is hitting movie theaters, another kind of racing experience will be playing on local screens. HaptiKart, an original video game developed by Johns Hopkins engineers...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Students’ Invention Prints Braille Beer Labels for Local Nonprofit
When the local nonprofit Blind Industries & Services of Maryland reached out to Johns Hopkins University’s mechanical engineering program last year, they asked for one thing: a printer that adds...
View ArticleFrom Classroom to Crisis: Students Develop Emergency Response Tech
When seconds can mean the difference between life and death, first responders must rely on medical training, experience, and judgment to make quick decisions. Two teams of Johns Hopkins computer...
View ArticleSwing Science
Chatbots can help you write an email, but can they improve your golf game? Two Johns Hopkins undergraduates think so. Amy Wang and Erica King have built a specialized analytics tool that lets golfers...
View ArticleEngineering Meets Ballet: A Smart Solution for Safer Pointe Work
In her final year as an undergraduate at USC, dancer Kaitlyn Kumar tore a ligament during a rehearsal for the ballet Sleeping Beauty — but powered through the pain to perform anyway, thanks to ample...
View ArticleDemocratizing Creativity
Johns Hopkins computer scientists have invented a new open-source, AI-powered tool that promises to make rich, customized visual stories like webtoons and informational videos faster and easier for...
View ArticleEngineering Solutions to Reduce Food Waste in JHU Dining Halls
Managing campus food waste is a key focus of JHU’s sustainability efforts, with initiatives like Weigh Your Waste, Free Food Alert, and Food Scrap Drop Offs aiming to foster responsible practices on...
View ArticleStudents Build Inventory App for Local Food Pantry
Each year, American grocery stores are left with about five million tons of unsold food. Much of this product ends up in landfills or is incinerated, but sometimes a nonprofit will step in. Let’s Eat,...
View ArticleDisc Golf Fore the Vets
A team of interdisciplinary engineering students is developing adaptive disc golf equipment to help veterans with disabilities—including partial quadriplegia and visual impairments—play more...
View ArticleBack on the Gridiron (Safely)
Returning to sports too soon after a concussion or other traumatic brain injury (TBI) can increase the risk of an even more serious injury and long-term brain damage. Johns Hopkins biomedical...
View ArticleStabilizing Nystagmus Symptoms with AI-Powered Smart Glasses
A team of undergraduate students in the Department of Biomedical Engineering’s Design Team course has created smart glasses to help patients with nystagmus, a condition causing involuntary, repetitive...
View ArticleUsing Computer Vision to help Orioles Build Better Bats
On the opening weekend of the 2025 Major League Baseball season last month, the New York Yankees turned heads by hitting a record-setting nine home runs in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers. The...
View ArticleCrushing It: In Space
Crushing asteroid rock into dust wasn’t the hard part. Figuring out how to do it in zero gravity was. “The first month of our project, we looked at all of these crushing mechanisms that work on...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins seeks feedback on new classroom guidelines
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View ArticleHopkins Engineering Grad Programs Again Ranked Among Nation’s Best by U.S. News
Johns Hopkins University’s engineering graduate programs have again been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as among the nation’s best. The publication’s annual Best Graduate Schools rankings,...
View ArticleFeeling is Believing: Bionic Hand ‘Knows’ What it’s Touching, Grasps like a...
Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its...
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