News Releases

Two APL space physicists were honored with prestigious NASA Honor Awards for their distinguished contributions and service to NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter and the agency’s mission overall.

Two Johns Hopkins APL staff members were recognized with 2023 Women of Color STEM awards. The annual awards honor promising innovators and inventors who have made an impact in their respective disciplines while also demonstrating a commitment to mentoring and encouraging women in STEM fields.

APL staff members Tao Jen and Rubbel Kumar received awards from the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers during a ceremony at the SASE National Convention and STEM Career Fair.

In recognition of her work focused on industry collaboration and technology development, Jennifer Finley was honored by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) with the 2024 Edwin H. Land Industry Award.

Johns Hopkins University recently named Ashutosh Dutta, chief 5G strategist at Johns Hopkins APL and an IEEE fellow, director of the Whiting School’s Doctor of Engineering program.

For a third consecutive year, APL was honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, and earned a spot as one of the Best Places to Work for 2024.

Christina Koch, a former electrical engineer with APL, returned to the Laurel, Maryland, campus to share her experiences as a NASA astronaut.

In continued support of the Climate TRACE coalition, APL used a combination of machine learning, satellite imagery and localized emissions data to advance its accurate, scalable and easily configurable greenhouse gas monitoring framework for road transportation.

Amid the cacophony of penguins and seals, scientists from Johns Hopkins APL and the University of Arizona celebrated the new year with the launch of NASA’s newest balloon mission GUSTO. The airborne telescope will study molecular clouds of gas and dust between the stars.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe team has earned agency honors for its novel efforts to guide a spacecraft toward record-setting close distances from the Sun — and revealing more about our star than mission planners and scientists ever expected.