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Miquel Antoine, a scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been awarded the 2018 Women of Color in STEM Award for her accomplishments in managerial leadership.

The advent of electronic medical records with large image databases, along with advances in artificial intelligence with deep learning, is offering medical professionals new opportunities to dramatically improve image analysis and disease diagnostics.

Six scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are among the researchers across the Johns Hopkins enterprise to receive funding in the fourth round of the JHU Discovery Awards program.

APL has been named one of IDG’s Computerworld Best Places to Work in IT. The Laboratory was ranked number 16 among large organizations on the list.

For the last three decades, the Submarine Technology Symposium (STS) has served as a platform for collaboration and an open forum for addressing key technology challenges affecting submarines and undersea systems.

Staff members from the Air and Missile Defense Sector (AMDS) at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have collected more than 15,000 books for children living below the poverty line in the local area.

On April 30, 2015, the MESSENGER spacecraft — its science mission complete and its fuel exhausted — slammed into the surface of Mercury, forever becoming part of the planet it orbited and examined for more than four years.

Sylvie DeLaHunt, a guidance, navigation and control engineer in the Air and Missile Defense Department, was among those honored at the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council’s 16th annual Diversity Recognition Awards, held May 15 on JHU’s Homewood campus.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, a performer role in the Ground Truth Program to test whether state-of-the-art social science modeling methods can uncover hidden “ground truth” in simulated but complex social systems.

A breakthrough flexible, cuttable, submersible and bulletproof lithium-ion battery was announced as the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Invention of the Year at the annual APL Achievement Awards ceremony on April 24 on APL’s campus in Laurel, Maryland.