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Aiming Small, Thinking Big
NanBio technology institute will involve 75-plus faculty
members
Johns Hopkins is preparing to aim enormous research and
educational resources at some exceedingly small targets.
Drawing on the expertise of more than 75 faculty members
from such diverse disciplines as engineering, biology,
medicine and public health, the university will officially
launch its new Institute for NanoBioTechnology on Monday,
May 15, with a celebration featuring prominent
speakers.
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New Focus on Sensor technology
Fourteen Baltimore researchers are part of a new national
engineering research center that is expected to
revolutionize sensor technology, yielding devices that have
a unique ability to detect minute amounts of chemicals in
the atmosphere, whether they are emitted from factories or
exhaled in human breath. The Baltimore contingent in the
six-university consortium includes seven faculty members
from four Johns Hopkins University schools and seven from
the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
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WSE: Demystifying technology for
high-schoolers
Mindful of the waning national interest in the engineering
professions — at a time when the need has never been
greater, and technology is becoming more difficult to
comprehend — the Whiting School this summer will roll
out a unique pre-college program aimed at demystifying
technology and showing off its creative character.
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Departments
Computing is poised to change the way science is
done