![Profile of Ralph Semmel](/sites/default/files/2022-12/ralph-semmel-4.jpg)
Press Release
Jun 9, 2010
Semmel Named Next Director of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Dr. Ralph D. Semmel, who currently oversees a variety of research and development activities at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, has been selected to lead the Laboratory as its next director.
![Geological map of Ganymede, largest moon of Jupiter.](/sites/default/files/2023-02/100526GanymedeMap.jpg)
Press Release
May 26, 2010
Scientists Create First Global Geological Map of Solar System’s Largest Moon
Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of Ganymede and, in doing so, have gathered new evidence into the formation of the solar system’s largest moon.
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Press Release
May 21, 2010
JHU Physicians, Engineers Apply Systems Engineering to Improve Infusion Pump Safety
Infusion pumps are ever-present in nearly every health care setting, providing critical fluids to patients, including insulin to diabetics, liquid food to patients unable to eat, chemotherapy medication to cancer patients and anesthetics via epidurals to women giving birth.
![Asteroids](/sites/default/files/2023-02/100430_Asteroid.jpg)
Press Release
Apr 30, 2010
APL Scientist Detects Ice on an Asteroid
A Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory scientist is shattering theories that asteroids are just barren chunks of space rock.
![APL 2009 Invention of the Year award winners](/sites/default/files/2023-02/IOY_Winners_lg.jpg)
Press Release
Apr 8, 2010
Johns Hopkins APL Names Invention of the Year
A method to quickly determine whether potentially harmful microbes are resistant to certain drugs has been named the year’s top invention at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
![Gary Sullins](/sites/default/files/2023-02/GarySullins.jpg)
Press Release
Mar 29, 2010
Gary Sullins, APL Aerospace Engineer, Receives Missile Defense Agency Technology Achievement Award
Gary Sullins, an aerospace engineer and supervisor, was presented with a Missile Defense Agency Technology Achievement Award March 24 during the eighth annual U.S. Missile Defense Conference in Washington, D.C.
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Press Release
Mar 9, 2010
Secretary of the Navy to Headline Climate, Energy Conference
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus will be the keynote speaker at the Climate and Energy Imperatives for Future Naval Forces Symposium on March 23 and 24 at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory’s (APL) Kossiakoff Center in Laurel, Md.
![John C. Sommerer](/sites/default/files/2023-02/John%20Sommerer.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 16, 2010
Sommerer to Head Space Department at Johns Hopkins APL
John C. Sommerer has been appointed head of the Space Department at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md.
![This oblique view shows geological layers of rock exposed on a mound inside Gale Crater on Mars](/sites/default/files/2023-02/Gale_oblique_labels.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 11, 2010
Layers Piled in Martian Crater Record a History of Changes
Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of major environmental changes on Mars billions of years ago.
![The comet-like object imaged by Hubble, called P/2010 A2, was first discovered by the LINEAR (Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program) sky survey on January 6. New Hubble images taken on January 25 and 29 show a complex X-pattern of filamentary structures near the nucleus](/sites/default/files/2023-02/HubblePrint2_2_10.jpg)
Press Release
Feb 2, 2010
Suspected Asteroid Collision Leaves Odd X-Pattern of Trailing Debris
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids.