More than ever, the answers to the most challenging questions cannot be accomplished entirely within one academic discipline, or even one division. The Johns Hopkins Discovery Awards provide grant awards to cross-divisional teams, comprised of faculty and/or non-faculty members from at least two schools or affiliates of the university, who are poised to arrive at important […]

Prof. Rebekka Klausen (pictured) represented the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Hopkins on the Hill, a biennial showcase of the range, value, and impact of federally funded research across Johns Hopkins University. U.S. Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and David Trone (D-MD) attended the showcase in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C. […]

Congratulations to the Thoi Lab for receiving the Maryland Innovation Initiative Award from TEDCO and the State of Maryland, which will support their development efforts on MOF-based energy storage devices!

The Herschbach medal is presented at the Dynamics of Molecular Colllisions meeting [https://pubs.acs.org/toc/jpcafh/119/50] which has been held biennially for the last 54 years.  At this meeting medals in theoretical and experimental molecular dynamics, named in honor of 1986 Nobel laureate Dudley R. Herschbach are awarded, in Herschbach’s words:  For bold and architectural work, inspiring and […]

David Burns (Thoi Group) is accepted into the Space Scholars Program at the Kirtland Air Force Base.  He will be spending this summer in Albuquerque, NM studying electrode materials for space-based energy storage with Dr. Jessica Buckner.  More information about the program is here: https://afrlscholars.usra.edu/locations/kirtland/  Congratulations, David!

Avery Baumann (Thoi Group) is named as one of three JHU recipients as an ARCS Graduate Scholar.  She is recognized for her outstanding academic and research accomplishments.  You can find out more here: https://metro-washington.arcsfoundation.org/

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United […]

Stephen Fried has just won a $1 million dollar grant from the Human Frontiers in Science Program (HFSP) to investigate the very question of how amino acids make life possible and ask ‘what if other amino acids were used instead?’. In this project, Fried and colleagues will try to go back in time and recreate […]

Congratulations to Dr. Vinayak Khodade (post-doc, Toscano Lab), who recently published a communication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society entitled “Development of S‑Substituted Thioisothioureas as Efficient Hydropersulfide Precursors.”

Congratulations to Prof. Kempa for receiving the NSF CAREER award! The NSF’s most prestigious award, the CAREER provides 5 years of funding to support the research and educational goals of early career faculty. These funds will support the Kempa group’s pioneering research in gas-phase synthesis of metal-organic frameworks with tailorable electronic properties.