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There’s a modern parable about a man who loses his keys at night. Though he dropped them in the park, he searches beneath a streetlight. When a police officer asks why, the man replies, “Because this is where the light is.”
This year, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Clarke (University of California, Berkeley), Michel H. Devoret (Yale University and University of California, Santa Barbara) and John M. Martinis (University of California, Santa Barbara) for “the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.” Coincidentally, 2025 is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology commemorating 100 years since modern quantum mechanics’ initial development.
Ikshu Pandey is a postbaccalaureate research assistant at the Rowland Institute at Harvard and a Fulbright recipient committed to studying the nexus of neuroscience and materials science for medical innovation. She is also dedicated to fostering equity in STEM and healthcare through her global advocacy work. In an interview with The News-Letter, Pandey reflected on her passion for interdisciplinary research and the effect of Fulbright experience, which have solidified her desire to create collaborative, globally informed solutions in neurodegenerative disease and healthcare engineering.
Nihar Shah, an accomplished artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, delivered a seminar at the Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP) on October 10th titled “LLMs in Science, the good, the bad and the ugly.” The seminar purveyed the role of AI in scientific research and peer review.
Thelma Escobar, an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington, presented at the Hopkins Department of Biology’s Seminar Series on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. She discussed the progress her lab has recently made regarding chromatin modifications in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and the adaptive immune system.
On Oct. 4, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) hosted the 15th Annual Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, a commemoration that united science, ethics and remembrance under one name that transformed medicine.
As the semester starts to pick up, take a minute and read the latest scientific discoveries that have occurred within the past couple of weeks.
On Tuesday, Sept. 30, Professor Hey-Kyoung Lee from the Department of Neuroscience at Hopkins presented her research as the speaker of the Ru Chih Huang Department of Biology Colloquium Series.
What’s striped, native to Southeast Asia and regrows spinal neurons in under 10 weeks?
Shea Littlepage is a public health researcher and Fulbright-Fogarty Public Health Fellowship recipient. She is dedicated to advancing global health through qualitative research and providing valuable insights to public health agencies. In an interview with The News-Letter, Shea discussed how her experiences at Hopkins motivated her to study health decision-making among Ethiopian experts during the COVID-19 crisis. These experiences have reinforced her commitment to combatting public health challenges through international outreach and policy analysis.
Toby Mao is a first-year MD candidate at Stanford and a Fulbright recipient passionate about interdisciplinary approaches to medicine, integrating medical engineering, technology and preventative healthcare. In an interview with The News-Letter, Toby reflected on how his background and passion for global health inspired him to pursue the Fulbright Program, which has shaped his commitment to using artificial intelligence for healthcare innovation.
Universities have eternally been celebrated as hubs for new research and discoveries: institutions at the frontier of acquiring and disseminating knowledge whether through classrooms, labs or seminars. However, it is equally important to consider how this knowledge and resources could benefit wider communities.
The Department of Biology’s Fall 2025 Seminar Series opened with a packed house on Thursday, Sept. 11 as Simon Alberti, a professor in the Department of Cellular Biochemistry at the Technical University of Dresden, delivered a talk titled “Biomolecular condensates: molecular insights and implications for disease intervention.”
“When I first did the hearing experiment on mice, it was so straightforward — I could see the connection right away between what we were testing and the bigger picture of hearing loss,” Kate Xie shared in an interview with The News-Letter. As a senior double majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Writing Seminars, Xie is involved in research investigating hearing loss and neural pathways involved with it.
How do brains turn environmental inputs into motor outputs?
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During the COVID lockdown in his gap year at the Technical University of Munich, Hopkins senior Alexander Kim started development of what would become the haptic communication device. He is currently working toward a combined Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s in Robotics, and he is in the late stages of patenting his device through Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV). In an interview with The News-Letter, Kim described his journey developing his idea and the patent process.
Artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction and protein design tools have revolutionized structural biology. Chief among these tools is AlphaFold, which was developed by researchers at Google DeepMind and recently won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. AlphaFold was trained on existing protein structures, which makes it extremely proficient at predicting the structure of stable proteins with well-characterized domains. However, it struggles with predicting the structures of misfolded proteins and intrinsically disordered domains, which are prevalent in many degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and cystic fibrosis. Therefore, it is crucial to study how proteins related in these diseases misfold in order to understand the pathologies and develop treatments and cures for these diseases.
Erin Sutton, flight dynamics model validation lead for NASA’s Dragonfly mission, visited to the Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics on Sept. 10 to share her work on the Dragonfly, a car-sized rotorcraft whose goal is to fly through the methane-rich atmosphere of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The seminar highlighted the challenges of validating flight dynamics for Titan’s environment, a notoriously hazy, treacherous terrain, and how Sutton’s team continues to push the boundaries of aerospace engineering and planetary exploration.
The School of Public Health’s Wolman seminar series hosted Marta Hatzell, an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology on Tuesday, Sept. 9. Hatzell gave a talk titled “Reactive Carbon Capture and Conversion: Pathways to Carbon-Neutral Fuels and Chemicals,” which highlighted the importance of carbon dioxide capture and its direct conversion into valuable materials. The process of reactive carbon capture and conversion (RCCC) cuts costs and requires less energy than traditional methods, which regenerate carbon dioxide from carbonate streams.