Blimp over Homewood
Students' helium-filled airship tests near-space military technology

WSE students Mike Chin, Ben Jackson and Nick Keim with the model airship they built to assist in an APL project.

Using a 17-foot-long helium-filled blimp, four propellers and sophisticated electronics, three Johns Hopkins undergraduates have built a model airship that will aid professional engineers who are designing a military craft to conduct surveillance at the outer edge of the Earth's atmosphere.
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JHU is first in R&D spending
The Johns Hopkins University performed $1.24 billion in scientific, medical and engineering research in fiscal year 2003, making it — for the 25th year in a row — the country's leading academic institution in such expenditures, according to a new National Science Foundation ranking.
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Maryland nonprofit employment continues to grow
While job growth in the for-profit sector in Maryland has remained stagnant, the state's nonprofit sector continues to grow, adding 4,300 new jobs in 2003, the latest year for which statistics are available.
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