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Congratulations, Zandy!

Award Winner! 2022-23 Heumann-Armstrong Award

Alexandra “Zandy” Wong, a 3rd year undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University and JHNSP Scholar (Cohort 3)!

The Heumann-Armstrong award is given to students who have experienced ableism in education, and shown a passion for fighting ableism in education. It is funded by the American Association of People with Disabilities and The Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation. Link to the full article.

Zandy’s research explores the intersection of public health and neuroscience to inform the creation of accessible digital public health systems for patients with disabilities. Her work to advance digital accessibility has helped create accessible educational content for over 200,000 youth in 119 countries. At Hopkins, she collaborates with Hopkins student offices and clubs to host accessibility workshops, check online curricula for accessibility, and deliver accessible research symposiums.

For Zandy’s passionate efforts in advocacy research for people living with disabilities, on March 8, 2023, she was recognized on International Women’s Day by Johns Hopkins as 1 of 10 other highly successful groundbreakers across the university.

Congratulations 2022 Graduates!

Catalina Argandona Lopez

B.S. in Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of Maryland, College Park

Erika Moe

B.S. in Human Physiology and a minor in Folklore from the University of Oregon.

Congratulations to Elias Wojahn!

2nd JHNSP Scholar of many to come to attend ​medical school! ​

​Our Cohort 1 JHNSP Scholar Mr. Elias Wojahn will ​be heading to the Medical College of Wisconsin ​in Fall 2022. ​

​Elias’s Bio: My name is Elias Wojahn, I graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in Biochemistry in 2021. As part of the initial cohort of students, I spent three years with the Johns Hopkins Neuroscience Scholars Program. I started off researching vestibular dysfunction in the Cullen Lab at Johns Hopkins University and after graduation I researched drug-induced deafness in the Steyger Lab at Creighton University. The mentorship I received and the opportunity to interact with peers who shared not only my interests but also my background was amazing and my skills as a scientist and scholar grew immensely. I’m pleased to share that this fall I will be starting medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin, class of 2026. ​

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Congratulations to Olivia Morrissey!

1st Scholar of many to come to attend medical school! 
Our Cohort 1 JHNSP Scholar Ms. Olivia Morrissey will be heading to the Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. She graduated from Fordham University in 2021 with a double major in Integrative Neuroscience and Sociology and a minor in Chemistry. She conducted research at Johns Hopkins in 2019 with Dr. Vikram Chib and in 2020 with Dr. Philip Wong. In her own words, “JHNSP was one of the best undergraduate experiences that I could have hoped for. It not only provided the opportunity to do cutting-edge research at one of the best research institutions in the world but has fostered valuable mentorship, lasting friendships, renewed self-confidence, and professional skills that will be essential in the years to come as a hard of hearing medical professional. I truly could not have asked for a better or more supportive program to explore my intellectual interests.”

Congratulations to our JHNSP Co-Director!

Dr. Tilak Ratnanather Elected to the 2022 Class of the AIMBE College of Fellows

February 18, 2022 – WASHINGTON, D.C.— The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Tilak Ratnanather, Associate Research Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University to its College of Fellows. Dr. Ratnanather was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the AIMBE College of Fellows for leadership and outstanding contribution in making biomedical engineering and STEMM accessible to people with hearing loss worldwide.

Full Article: https://icm.jhu.edu/2022/02/26/tilak-ratnanather-elected-to-american-institute-for-medical-and-biological-engineerings-college-of-fellows/#.YidyCejMJPY

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