Photo spotlight: 2024 at Hopkins BME

From the Johns Hopkins BME 60th anniversary celebration to our annual Design Day, 2024 has been an unforgettable year. Take a look back at some of our most memorable moments.

In April, students, faculty, and alumni gathered on the Homewood campus for a belated 60th anniversary celebration of Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering, which was established in 1961 with the founding of our PhD program, one of the first graduate BME training programs in the nation.

DeltaT, a team of Hopkins BME undergraduate students, presented their design project at the annual Whiting School of Engineering Design Day. The team is creating a non-harmful sensory simulation device to assess neurological function in ICU patients.

In May, we celebrated the graduating class of 2024 at the Johns Hopkins Commencement ceremony.

The undergraduate class of 2024 gathered for a final celebration at the annual Senior Sendoff, held at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

In June, our faculty and staff celebrated the end of another amazing academic year at our annual picnic on the Clark Hall lawn.

Over the summer, students from the Hopkins BME CBID master’s program traveled to India to gain firsthand insights into the challenges faced by the country’s clinicians and community health care workers. Throughout the academic year, CBID students work in teams to develop solutions to critical healthcare challenges, using their experiences abroad to inform their global health design projects.

STEMM-Hear, an NIH-funded, JHU-led internship program, gave students with hearing loss the opportunity to conduct summer research in hearing science labs across the country.

In July, a group of talented high school students came to Johns Hopkins for the Immersive Summer Program for Education, Enrichment, and Distinction (ISPEED) in Biomedical Engineering. This four-week residential program provides students with hands-on experience that helps them build practical skills and prepare for college.

We welcomed our newest class of master’s students to campus during our annual orientation in August.

In September, Hopkins BME co-hosted the Johns Hopkins University Innovation Summit, which showcased cutting-edge technologies and startups to more than 70 investors and innovators. The Innovation Summit featured several startups led by Hopkins BME faculty, students, and alumni, including Kubanda Cryotherapy and Biolinco.

The 2024 Rising Stars in Engineering in Health workshop, co-hosted by Hopkins BME, was held at Boston University in September. Faculty from co-host institutions helped prepare workshop participants for the academic job market through mock job interviews, panels, networking receptions, educational presentations, and a session to help them improve their research talks.

Our faculty and students enjoyed presenting their work and networking with other biomedical engineers during the 2024 Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) annual meeting, held in our hometown of Baltimore, MD in October.

During the BMES annual meeting in October, Hopkins BME Director Michael Miller co-led a special session on the BME grand challenges that will define the future of the field. Outlined by a consortium of 50 renowned researchers from 34 prestigious universities around the world, including Johns Hopkins, the BME grand challenges were published in a recent IEEE OJEBM article that lays the foundation for a concerted worldwide effort to achieve technological and medical breakthroughs.