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The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University remains the No. 1-ranked undergraduate biomedical engineering program in the nation, announced today by U.S. News and World Report.

Johns Hopkins University and biotech company United Therapeutics Corporation have teamed up to create a new postdoctoral fellowship in the emerging field of computational medicine.

The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering honored students, faculty, and staff from each engineering department during the annual Convocation Awards Ceremony on Monday. These awards highlight hard work and outstanding achievements in research, academics, and mentoring.

More than 30 members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland spent a day at Johns Hopkins University last weekend thinking like engineers as they designed and built miniature roller coasters.

The Johns Hopkins University biomedical engineering graduate program is once again the country’s best, according to the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of the nation’s Best Graduate Schools.

Faculty, researchers, industry professionals, and healthcare providers who are interested in harnessing the collective skill, energy, and talent of the BME student design teams have until February 13 to submit a design challenge for the next round of projects.

Johns Hopkins recently hosted the Rising Stars in Biomedical Engineering workshop, which aims to give women the skills they need to pursue faculty positions in the field.

Five trailblazers with ties to Johns Hopkins BME who have become leaders in their fields have been named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list for 2019.

In a new $5.5 million center that spans engineering and cardiology specialties at Johns Hopkins, experts aim to improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders that affect millions of people by leveraging innovations in cardiac imaging, computer simulations and data science.

With $2.46 million in support from the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University is teaming up with two historically black Baltimore institutions, Morgan State and Coppin State universities, to cultivate a diverse group of highly trained biomedical researchers.

Advances in surgical precision, safety and outcomes require that we bury complexity in the OR. Enter a new kind of engineer.

The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering earned the nation’s top spot once again in the U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of “Best Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Programs” for 2019.

The Johns Hopkins University’s top-ranked Department of Biomedical Engineering has entered into an international partnership with the world’s No. 1 engineering school, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, to give master’s level students the opportunity to earn graduate degrees from both institutions.

Tilak Ratnanather, associate research professor of biomedical engineering, is on a mission to bring more deaf and hard-of-hearing students in STEM fields.

Thirty multidisciplinary endeavors have been selected to receive support this year from Johns Hopkins University's Discovery Awards program. The winning project teams—chosen from 190 proposals—include 108 individuals representing 11 Johns Hopkins entities.

Johns Hopkins has launched an interdisciplinary institute aimed at developing the mathematical theories that will hasten the analysis of the massive amounts of data being used to study everything from the inner workings of the human cell to the structure of the universe.

The Whiting School of Engineering honored several BME students, faculty, and staff for their outstanding achievements in research, academics, and mentoring at the annual Convocation Awards Ceremony at the Homewood campus.

Through the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute's postdoctoral fellowship, researchers from each field are uniting to solve the mysteries of the brain.

More than two dozen members of the Girl Scouts of Central Maryland came to Johns Hopkins University Saturday to design and build miniature roller coasters out of cardboard boxes, pipe insulation tubing, cups, tape, and other household materials—and to learn about the field of engineering along the way.

The program returned to its traditional sole possession of the No. 1 spot in the rankings after sharing the top spot a year ago. The Whiting School of Engineering moved up for the fourth consecutive year to 18th overall.

Faculty and students gathered recently for the fourth annual Computational Medicine Night. The event attracted more than 100 undergraduate students interested in learning about ICM’s cutting-edge research program and the computational medicine minor.

His research on how the brain receives and processes sound paved the way for the development of cochlear implants.

The annual SPIE Medical Imaging symposium held in Houston, TX featured 14 talks from faculty and students from the Johns Hopkins Departments of Biomedical Engineering, Radiology, Neurosurgery, and Orthopaedic Surgery.

To wrap up National Engineers Week, Warren Grayson, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, encouraged students at Barclay Elementary/Middle School to think like an engineer for an afternoon.

An international team led by Johns Hopkins researcher Rong Li, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of cell biology and chemical and biomolecular engineering, was selected as one of ten finalists in the second round of Cancer Research UK’s £20 million Grand Challenge.

The Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering hosted 16 high school students from the Park School of Baltimore to help fuel their passion for science and engineering.

The university’s NeMo team, short for Neonatal Monitoring, was named as one of 51 new Grand Challenges Explorations winners in an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design has been selected to work with the Stevens Initiative, based at the Aspen Institute. This program will create an engineering design and innovation cyber exchange program to bring students together through virtual, joint hackathons.

The Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute hosted its grand opening launch party last Monday evening in its new space located on the third floor of Clark Hall at the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus.

A Johns Hopkins University-led international team of scientists—supported by an $11-million, five-year U.S. Department of Defense grant—wants to streamline such investigations by developing algorithms for extracting relevant details from multi-modal data.