![Girl Power at Johns Hopkins APL](/sites/default/files/2023-02/20150226_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 26, 2015
Johns Hopkins APL to Host “Girl Power” STEM Event on March 8
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) will host Girl Power, a free introductory event for middle and high school girls about careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) on Sunday, March 8, 2015, from 2 to 5 p.m. on APL’s Laurel, Maryland, campus.
![APL’s George Coles, with co-principal investigators Sybil Klaus and Eric Jackson from Johns Hopkins Medicine.](/sites/default/files/2023-01/20150211_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 11, 2015
Researchers Reduce Shunt Maintenance for Hydrocephalus Patients
Shunts are the most common form of treatment for hydrocephalus, the excess fluid buildup in the ventricles of the brain. A team of scientists at APL and physicians at Johns Hopkins Medicine is working on a device that will help physicians quickly determine if a shunt is failing, without radiation or invasive procedures.
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Press Release
Feb 4, 2015
Happy Birthday Clyde Tombaugh: New Horizons Returns New Images of Pluto
Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh could only dream of a spacecraft flying past the small planet he spotted on the edges of the solar system in 1930. Yet the newest views of Pluto from NASA’s approaching New Horizons probe — released today, on the late American astronomer’s birthday — hint at just how close that dream is to coming true.
![Top row (left to right): Wale Akinpelu, George Coles, and Camille Daniel. Bottom row (left to right): Khadir Griffith, Anthony Plummer, and Anthony Watkins.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/15023_imagecomposite.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 3, 2015
Six APL Engineers to Receive Black Engineer of the Year Awards
Six staff members of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have been awarded Black Engineer of the Year Awards.
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Press Release
Jan 15, 2015
New Horizons Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has begun its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto, entering the first of several approach phases that will culminate with the first close-up flyby of the Pluto system six months from now.
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Press Release
Jan 14, 2015
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab Receives $4 Million to Develop a Retinal Prosthesis
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, has received $4 million in funding from the Mann Fund to develop a next-generation retinal prosthesis system.
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Press Release
Jan 9, 2015
Eminent Defense Figures Join Hopkins APL as Senior Fellows
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory announced today that James N. Miller, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, has joined the Lab as a Senior Fellow.
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Press Release
Dec 24, 2014
Innovative Use of Pressurant Extends MESSENGER’s Mission, Enables Collection of New Data
The MESSENGER spacecraft will soon run literally on fumes. After more than 10 years traveling in space, nearly four of those orbiting Mercury, the spacecraft has expended most of its propellant and was on course to impact the planet’s surface at the end of March 2015. But engineers on the team have devised a way to use the pressurization gas in the spacecraft’s propulsion system to propel MESSENGER for as long as another month, allowing scientists to collect even more data about the planet closest to the Sun.
![Amputee Makes History with APL's Modular Prosthetic Limb](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Cover-Amputee-History-MPL.jpg)
Press Release
Dec 16, 2014
Amputee Makes History with APL’s Modular Prosthetic Limb
A Colorado man made history at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) this summer when he became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Laboratory’s Modular Prosthetic Limbs.
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Press Release
Dec 10, 2014
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory Reports Record Year for Technology Transfer Efforts
The Laboratory launched six start-up companies, filed disclosures for 257 inventions, and recorded 77 agreements to license APL-developed technologies, according to APL’s Office of Technology Transfer.