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Third-year Bridgette Kim was awarded the highly competitive DoD SMART Scholarship, which provides students with full tuition for up to five years, summer internships, a stipend, and full-time employment with the Department of Defense after graduation.

Maeve Garigan, BS '01, MA '08, is the founder and CEO of Roper, a technology company focused on advanced wireless communications and wearables.

Researchers in the Laboratory for Experimental Fluid Dynamics are using science to understand oil spills before the next marine disaster.

For almost three decades, Whiting School Professor Louis Whitcomb has developed tools and vehicles that enable oceanographers to explore once-unreachable depths.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) has named Thao (Vicky) Nguyen, a professor of mechanical engineering and the Marlin U. Zimmerman Faculty Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, as the next co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. Nguyen’s five-year term will begin January 2022.

"Safe autonomous systems are crucial for our society," said Noah Cowan, professor of mechanical engineering. "Our approach will integrate traditional mathematical control theory with new and emerging AI to make systems verifiable, robust, safe, and correct."

The award is presented to a mentor within one of the AEOP apprenticeship programs who goes beyond the call of duty to support students in their STEM educations and career pursuits.

This new approach could aid in the design of new wind farms and help to use those already in operation more efficiently.

The Robbins prize was instigated in 2020 to recognize outstandingly talented PhD students who reflect Dr. Robbins contributions to computational science and engineering.

Katz was selected on the basis of his extensive publications on rotating flows with applications to gas turbine technology and air-sea interactions.

Passionate about developing and implementing sustainable energy solutions, Blumreiter is the co-founder and CTO of ClearFlame Engine Technologies, a startup company dedicated to developing cleaner, more efficient engines for heavy duty applications.

Kang will work with AFRL researchers to design and fabricate programmable aerospace structures that can morph to various shapes in response to dynamically changing mission environments in energy-efficient ways.