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In recognition of his leadership of the team behind Parker Solar Probe, Andy Driesman of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory was awarded NASA’s Outstanding Public Leadership Medal. This award acknowledges sustained, high-impact leadership accomplishments by a nongovernment employee that significantly influenced the NASA mission and goals.

The medal is awarded to government and nongovernment individuals or teams by NASA center directors “when it is deemed to be extraordinarily important and appropriate to recognize such achievement.”

Some people build race cars in their garages, others start a band in their basement, but few make equipment as a hobby that will help clean up the environment half a world away.

Natasha Alonso Zimmerman, a chemist and project manager at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, was recognized as a “Rising Star” at the 24th Annual Women of Color STEM Conference.

The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team building NASA’s first planetary defense test mission — the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) — has completed two key mission reviews that bring DART steps closer to the challenging task of diverting an asteroid.

After more than four decades in space, the discoveries keep coming from NASA’s Voyager spacecraft and their sets of science instruments — including the durable charged-particle detectors developed at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

A team of researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory has won a 2019 R&D 100 Award for their breakthrough lithium-ion battery technology.

Vickram Rajendran and Will LeVine were two self-described “kids” just having fun with computers and math, trying to solve one of the biggest problems in machine learning, related to a concept dubbed “competence.”

Ciara Sivels was selected as one of the 125 AAAS IF/THEN Ambassadors. IF/THEN seeks to further women in STEM by empowering current innovators and inspiring the next generation of pioneers.

Zibi Turtle will lead the Dragonfly mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. She’ll also lead the next generation of women in planetary science.