Joining Hopkins engineering researchers in this venture are others from the School of Medicine, the Applied Physics Laboratory, MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Carnegie Mellon, and Shadyside Hospital. NSF funding is renewable for an additional five years. After 10 years the center is expected to be financially self-sustaining. The flowering of biomedical engineering has added to the University's research base this year. Considerable funding was received this year for work that is challenging the conventions of social welfare policy.
Space research continues strong.
The instrument is scheduled for launch and coupling to the Hubble Space Telescope in May 2000. The grant will also support the hiring of 10 to 12 postdoctoral scientists and several graduate students and undergraduates to work on the project, which aims to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the nature and structure of the universe. The University's Applied Physics Laboratory has been chosen to be part of the inauguration of NASA's Solar Terrestrial Probe Program. Escalating public health problems have resulted in environmental studies becoming an increasingly important source of research support. The costs of environmental cleanup can then be more accurately gauged.