News & Announcements Archive

Prof. Fried Receives the Biopolymers in vivo Young Investigator Award!

Prof. Fried Receives the Biopolymers in vivo Young Investigator Award!

Dr. Stephen Fried has been named the recipient of the Biopolymers in vivo Young Investigator Award.  The award is granted by the Biopolymers in vivo subgroup of the Biophysical Society, […]

PARADIM Holds Riveting Annual Meeting

PARADIM Holds Riveting Annual Meeting

Thanks to all PARADIM users and prospective users from around the United States that joined in to the 2020 PARADIM annual user meeting on December 16, 2020. Users from across […]

Prof. Kempa Receives Hopkins Discovery Award

Prof. Kempa Receives Hopkins Discovery Award

Congratulations to Professor Thomas Kempa (Chemistry) and Professor Amy Foster (Electrical and Computer Engineering) on receiving a Johns Hopkins Discovery Award! These awards are meant to stimulate the development of […]

Chairman Yarkony Receives 2020 Chemist of the Year Award

Chairman Yarkony Receives 2020 Chemist of the Year Award

Established in 1962, each year the Maryland section of ACS recognizes and selects a chemist for their outstanding achievements in the field of pure or applied chemistry, chemical engineering or […]

Undergraduate Chemistry Major Awarded PURA Award

Undergraduate Chemistry Major Awarded PURA Award

PURA is the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award that was created in 1993 by Provost Joseph Cooper. Each year this award is given out to a handful of undergraduate students to help promote and aid independent […]

Stephen Fried’s Research Could Help Fight SARS, MERS, and Zika

Stephen Fried’s Research Could Help Fight SARS, MERS, and Zika

Stephen Fried, assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, is helping lead a study of a virus’s RNA called the slippery sequence that may hold a key to destroying not only SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes […]

Thoi Lab Receives Space@Hopkins Seed Funding

Thoi Lab Receives Space@Hopkins Seed Funding

The Thoi Lab was recently awarded seed funding from Space@Hopkins to use metal-organic frameworks for low-temperature batteries for space applications.  To read more about the grant and to see the […]

Thoi Lab Receives Grant from the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund!

Thoi Lab Receives Grant from the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund!

The Thoi lab is a grant recipient of the Cohen Translational Engineering Fund from the Whiting School of Engineering and Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures.  This funding will support their work […]

Prof. Fried Receives New Innovator Award from NIH

Prof. Fried Receives New Innovator Award from NIH

Dr. Stephen Fried became an assistant professor in the department of chemistry in summer 2018. Since then he has collaborated with numerous professors, departments and institutions as he and his […]

Theoretical Chemist Douglas Poland dies at 80

Theoretical Chemist Douglas Poland dies at 80

Douglas Poland, 80, retired Professor of Chemistry, passed away on September 5, 2020. Poland earned a B. A. degree from Cornell University in 1961 and a Ph. D. degree from […]