![Nancy Chabot](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200309_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Mar 9, 2020
Nancy Chabot Named Meteoritical Society Vice President
Nancy Chabot, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was elected vice president of the Meteoritical Society, an international organization that promotes planetary science research and education with a focus on meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further the understanding of the solar system’s origins.
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Feature Story
Mar 6, 2020
College Partnership Becomes a Unique STEM Job Opportunity
It started as a simple solution to a challenge.
![Laszlo Kecskes, left, and Michael Presley.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200228_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 28, 2020
Michael Presley and Laszlo Kecskes Receive Inaugural HEMI/APL Seed Grant
Michael Presley, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, and Laszlo Kecskes, of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, are the inaugural recipients of the HEMI/APL Seed Grant.
![AI in healthcare](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200218_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 18, 2020
JHU Researchers Begin to Tackle Bias in AI Used in Disease Diagnosis and Health Care
Every year, millions of patients receive medical diagnoses, care and treatment plans based on algorithms. But a recent study finding a lack of ethnic diversity in the source data for one widely used treatment-decision algorithm has researchers suggesting that similar tools used by hospitals, health care systems and government agencies could be doing more harm than good.
![AI in healthcare](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200214_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 14, 2020
POSTPONED: Second Annual Health Symposium to Focus on Operationalizing Artificial Intelligence
On April 21–22, 2020, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, is hosting its second annual National Health Symposium.
![This enhanced color composite image of Jupiter’s moon Io from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft vividly shows deposits of sulfur across the surface](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200213_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 13, 2020
NASA Selects Johns Hopkins APL-Led Discovery Mission Proposal for Further Funding
NASA announced today four mission proposals that will move forward for further consideration in its Discovery Program, which funds low-cost space exploration missions that do not exceed $500 million. All four mission teams feature scientists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, including a mission to Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io that would be designed, built and co-led by APL.
![APL Black History Month Highlights the Voting Rights Movement](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200211_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 11, 2020
APL Black History Month Highlights the Voting Rights Movement
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory kicked off its Black History Month celebration on Feb. 5 in APL’s Kossiakoff Center. Spoken word performer Lady Brion opened the event with an original poem to honor this year’s theme, “African Americans and the Vote.”
![Bob Reichert](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200207_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 7, 2020
Navy Lauds ‘Pathfinder’ Reichert for Missile Defense Leadership
Johns Hopkins APL's Bob Reichert was recently honored with the Pathfinder Award from the Missile Defense Agency’s Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense program.
![An artist’s impression of Solar Orbiter](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200207b_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 7, 2020
NASA, ESA’s Solar Orbiter Set to Explore Sun with Johns Hopkins APL-Developed Camera and Particle Detector
NASA and the European Space Agency’s jointly led Solar Orbiter mission is scheduled for launch Feb. 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida — and riding aboard it will be a high-energy particle detector developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
![APL’s low-temperature test bed lab is an experimental facility for quantum computing simulations.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20200203_image1_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 3, 2020
Johns Hopkins APL Joins New Alliance to Accelerate Maryland’s Leadership in Quantum Science
The Maryland Quantum Alliance will drive quantum science discovery and innovation, develop pioneering quantum technologies and train the quantum workforce of tomorrow for Maryland, the region and the nation.