Did you know that the second largest source of biomass on the planet after plants is microorganisms? Too small to be seen with the naked eye, microorganisms and their unique capabilities make them a critical component of how ecosystems function. DNA sequencing, the technology that allowed us to s...

COVID-19 spread across the world with a speed and intensity that laid bare the limits of our understanding of the transmission pathways of such respiratory diseases. After much confusion and misinformation, there emerged a consensus that airborne transmission from very small respiratory droplets ...

From the bioastronautics@hopkins Mini-Symposium. Speakers include Dr. Robert Reynolds, current visiting data scientist at NASA’s Human Health and Performance Directorate, and Dr. Robert Ploutz-Snyder, Assistant Dean of Research and Scholarship, at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Plo...

Hopkins at Home and Bioastronautics @ Hopkins, introduced and moderated by Dr. Mark Shelhamer (Director of the JHU Human Spaceflight Lab). This session will focus on making space travel inclusive for people with disabilities and features Dr. Sheyna Gifford, Sarah Hasnain, and Dr. Bonnielin Swenor...

Brought to you by Hopkins at Home and the Office of Government, Community and Economic Partnerships.

Alexis Battle
Director, Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare; Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science.
Alexis Battle is an associate professor in biomedical en...

There are several advances in the non-operative and operative care of patients with hip and knee problems. Technical and technological innovations have provided a cutting-edge to patients and providers alike. Savyasachi “Savya” Thakkar, M.D., Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, leads a di...

Charbel G. Rizk, Associate Research Professor at the Whiting School of Engineering, is revolutionizing the way machines see. As Founder and CEO of Oculi® - a deep tech startup – his team developed the OCULI SPU™ (Sensing and Processing Unit), a complete vision system on a single chip. Where trad...

When the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) was tasked with developing a commercial encryption standard, they asked for help from the National Security Agency (NSA). Join Richard M. (Dickie) George, the Senior Advisor for Cyber Security at the Applied Physics Lab, to discuss the development of th...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is set to launch in December, and will revolutionize our view of the Universe and our place within it. JWST is NASA’s most ambitious and complex space observatory to date, carrying a mirror that is several times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope and a su...

While the age of technology is exciting in its possibilities, we know that threats still exist: but science, and Johns Hopkins, are leading the way in protecting our armed forces and civilian populations from these threats. Join Tim Weihs (PhD, MS) and Lori Graham-Brady (PhD, MA) to see how Johns...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a focused spacecraft, designed to navigate to and impact an asteroid at a speed of 6.6 kilometers per second (roughly 15,000 miles per hour). It will be the first planetary defense test mission, demonstrating our capability to respond to a potential ...

Helping You to Be You: Documentary Screening & Panel Discussion

Jeremy D. Brown, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, is making significant strides in advancing the science of touch in human-robot interaction. Specifically, his research group, the Haptics and Medical Robotics (HAMR) Laboratory, seeks to generate and discover fundam...

On June 10, 2020, researchers around the world observed the call to #ShutDownSTEM in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and efforts to address the systemic racism that ended the lives of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. One might ask, “what does racism in policing have to do with STEM and...

Please join us on Nov. 15, 2021, at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, for the next in our series of human-spaceflight events from bioastronautics@hopkins.

This will be the first of an occasional series of mini-symposia, each approximately two hours long, with a keynote speaker, panel discussion, and...

Each particle in the air we breathe has a history. The chemical composition of those particles provides clues to the sources and the potential impacts of those particles on human health and the climate system. Join this lecture with Dr. Peter DeCarlo, Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins Universi...

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away….Movies like Star Wars and 2001 Space Odyssey showed us a future where droids are our partners, servants, and friends. Outside of the world on-screen, the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has overly promised and grossly under delivered for the last five de...

Join us for an engaging panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence: Living in a George Jetson World moderated by Efrem Epstein, A&S '90 with digital transformation and artificial intelligence experts Alex Sharpe, Engr '95, Bill Kirst, A&S '00, Kate Sperber, A&S '95 and Dr. Charles Johnson-Bey...