Johns Hopkins University has become the first university in the world to partner with Innovation for Defense, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Innovation Hub‘s new initiative.

When Victoria Lynn first visited campus as a sophomore in high school and set her eyes on Tech Tower, she instantly knew that Georgia Tech was her dream school. Lynn joined the robotics team in her junior year of high school, helping her discover her passion for engineering and further confirming that Tech was where she belonged.

Meet Kristen Yee, Steven Hu and Meron Yonas as they give us a glimpse into what it means to be an A. James Clark Scholar at the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Tonya Peeples, associate dean for equity and inclusion and professor of chemical engineering in Penn State’s College of Engineering, and Penn State chemical engineering and Schreyer Scholar alumna Paula Garcia Todd recently received Million Women Mentors (MWM) Trailblazer Awards.

These awards were presented by STEMConnector, the nation’s largest professional services organization dedicated to developing a diverse, STEM-ready workforce.

While pharmaceutical companies globally vie to develop a vaccine to make COVID-19 a problem of the past, a University of Maryland student is working to tackle one of the complications of a pandemic that’s still very much with us.

Emily Cho ’22, a mechanical engineering major, co-founded a multi-institutional team of students brought together by a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) effort and supported by the the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation and the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE).

Our guest on this episode is William Walker. He is an inventor, serial entrepreneur, and educator. He’s repeatedly invented solutions to unmet clinical needs and built companies to deliver those solutions. He currently serves as the Mattson Family Director of Entrepreneurship at Duke Engineering. In this role he coaches innovators and entrepreneurs, leads multiple research projects, directs the A. James Clark Scholars Program, and is actively building new programs in education and entrepreneurship. Dr. Walker holds BSE and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Duke. He’s published over forty journal articles, he holds more than thirty patents, and has founded three medical device companies.

Chris Rowe, School of Engineering associate dean for external relations, has received the 2019-2020 K.C. Potter Outstanding Service to Students Award, which is given to a faculty member who provides outstanding service consistently to individual students or student groups through personal advising, development of programs, or improvements to university systems and policies that affect students.

On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, a group of students gathered in a sun-drenched great room of the Warren and Moore residential colleges, huddled in discussion with a professor as a fireplace crackled nearby. Like a Norman Rockwell tableau depicting college life, it could have been anything from a small seminar class to an impromptu bull session with a faculty member.

In fact, it was a new kind of gathering altogether. Members of Vanderbilt’s inaugural A. James Clark Scholars Program, which offers financial aid each year to 10 engineering undergraduates who have demonstrated a commitment to business leadership and civic engagement, meet like this every week—always in a new spot, so they get to know campus better.

Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering has welcomed 10 outstanding first-year students from eight U.S. states and Nairobi, Kenya to join its student body as A. James Clark Scholars.

The A. James Clark Scholars Program, funded through a $15 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation, expands access to Duke’s nationally recognized engineering education and seeks to create a new generation of engineering leaders with a focus on engineering, business, leadership and community service.