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APL is continuously recognized for its deep expertise, culture of experimentation, focus on collaboration, and commitment to diversity and inclusion. We celebrate our world-renowned staff whose awards and honors, some of which are listed here, inspire us to keep aiming higher.

  • Dragonfly

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    Johns Hopkins APL Named One of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Space Companies

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    APL has been recognized as one of 2020’s Most Innovative Space Companies by Fast Company magazine for its leading role on and design of the Dragonfly mission — a bold, game-changing NASA exploration of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. Read full press release >>

  • APL’s breakthrough lithium-ion battery technology

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    Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Win 2019 R&D 100 Award for Breakthrough Lithium-Ion Battery Technology

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    APL’s breakthrough lithium-ion battery technology has been recognized with a 2019 R&D 100 Award, celebrating industry-changing products and technologies. Read Full Press Release >>

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    Parker Solar Probe Team Awarded NASA Silver Achievement Medal

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    Parker Solar Probe has been awarded the NASA Silver Achievement Medal in recognition of its “stellar achievement” as humanity’s first mission to explore the Sun’s corona and the solar wind within the extreme environment around our star. Read Full Press Release >>

Latest Awards

01-15-20Johns Hopkins APL Scientist Ralph Lorenz Wins Choice Award for Climate Science History Book

11-15-19APL’s Stadter Earns Air Force Exceptional Service Award

11-13-19Parker Solar Probe Team Awarded NASA Silver Achievement Medal

11-13-19Johns Hopkins APL’s Andy Driesman Awarded Leadership Honor by NASA

11-07-19Alonso Zimmerman Receives “Women of Color” STEM Technical Rising Star Award

11-01-19Johns Hopkins APL Researchers Win 2019 R&D 100 Award for Breakthrough Lithium-Ion Battery Technology

10-23-19Johns Hopkins APL’s Ciara Sivels Selected as a National STEM Ambassador

09-27-19Johns Hopkins APL Receives 2019 Impact Award from Innovation Leader

08-05-19Johns Hopkins APL Named to Fast Company’s Inaugural Best Workplaces for Innovators List

06-17-19Johns Hopkins APL Named a Computerworld ‘Best Place to Work in IT’

06-03-19Johns Hopkins APL Principal Deputy General Counsel Anne Brennan is Recipient of DC Bar Honors for Distinguished Career Service

05-07-19Johns Hopkins APL Celebrates Innovation and Staff Achievements, Honoring Top Inventions, Discoveries and Technical Accomplishments

04-03-19Johns Hopkins APL Director Ralph Semmel Named an ‘Influential Marylander’

03-21-19Parker Solar Probe Wins 2018 Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award

02-28-19Johns Hopkins APL Nails Down Construction Industry Award

01-09-19Katherine Morse Receives Prestigious NATO Award

11-29-18Johns Hopkins APL Spacecraft Named Popular Science’s 2018 Innovation of the Year

11-08-18Johns Hopkins APL Wins IARPA Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge

11-02-18Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Earns Global Society of Women Engineers Awards

08-02-18Nancy Chabot Elected Meteoritical Society Fellow

07-09-18Miquel Antoine Receives ‘Women of Color’ STEM Leadership Award

06-19-18Johns Hopkins APL Named as One of IDG’s Computerworld 2018 “Best Places to Work in IT”

05-21-18DeLaHunt Honored by JHU Diversity Leadership Council

05-07-18In a Celebration of Bold Innovation, Johns Hopkins APL Honors Top Inventions, Discoveries and Technical Achievements

02-22-18Fast Company Names Johns Hopkins APL as One of World’s “Most Innovative Companies”

02-18-18David Taubenheim Named LGBTQ+ Engineer of the Year

02-14-18APL Space Executive Ann Darrin Named an ‘Influential Marylander’

02-05-18Andrew Adams Receives Black Engineer of the Year Award for Research Leadership

01-23-18Lab Wins DoD Honors for Support of Guard and Reserve Staff Members