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The first mission to touch the Sun, Parker Solar Probe — designed, built and managed by APL for NASA — has cleared the final procedures in the clean room before its move to the launch pad, where it will be integrated onto its launch vehicle, a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy.

When a natural disaster strikes, government agencies quickly activate a decentralized and often disparate network of response teams to collect, analyze and operationalize all types of data and information. However, current data-management strategies and traditional epidemiological methods are not well-equipped to deal with the growing complexities of today’s disaster landscape.

Eight staff members from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, are the first cohort of students accepted into a new doctor of engineering degree program conferred by the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering in partnership with APL.

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.