Thirty-eight convening, research, and teaching endeavors based at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., have been selected to receive funding from the university’s Nexus Awards Program over the next year. Projects from Rama Chellappa, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, and Joel Bader, professor of biomedical engineering, are among those selected.
The projects span every academic division of the university and include nearly 150 scholars exploring a range of topics, including bird flu preparedness, improving primary care, AI-enhanced health care, and global humanitarian food assistance.
This is the third round of funding distributed via the Nexus Awards, a $15 million program designed to support research, teaching, and event programming at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, which officially opened in the fall of 2023. Funding for award recipients begins July 1.
“Since 2023, faculty from across our One University have harnessed Nexus Awards to bring our Hopkins Bloomberg Center to life as a hub of robust debate and dialogue,” said Ron Daniels, president of Johns Hopkins University. “We are grateful to sustain this tradition with a third cohort of Nexus Awards recipients, who will continue to mobilize ideas, expertise, and insights to help address society’s most challenging concerns.”
Nexus Awards are available in three categories: convening, research, and teaching. Both Chellappa and Bader’s projects, listed below, were awarded in the convening category. Convening teams may request up to $100,000, with an award term of up to one year for the development and execution of an academic or policy-focused conference or a series of conferences on any topic. These may be one-time events or a series of related events.
Recipients from BME:
Responsible AI for Health Symposium (RAIHS) at HBC: Ritu Agarwal, Rama Chellappa, Mark Dredze, Gordon Gao, Kadija Ferryman, Emily Haroz, Brian Hasselfeld, Risa Wolf
AI-Enabled Synthetic Biology and Biosecurity: Joel Bader
Read about all the Nexus Awards Program recipients from Johns Hopkins on the Hub.