Press Release
Jun 3, 2004
NSBRI Funds Two Biomedical Projects at ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL
The projects - two of 48 selected from 111 proposals - will continue the Institute's research to resolve the health and medical challenges related to long-duration space missions.
Press Release
May 5, 2004
ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Applied Physics Laboratory Opens New Jersey Office
ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL will provide on-site technical support to communications and information security projects designed to advance the Army's large-scale restructuring of its telecommunication infrastructure.
Media Advisory
Apr 27, 2004
APL Hosts Student Robotic Competition on Space Day
Nearly 400 middle school students from 22 schools across Maryland will compete in the fourth annual TEAMS (Technology Education Alliance with Middle Schools) science and technology competition May 6.
Press Release
Apr 22, 2004
National Capital Region Launches Area Disease Reporting Network
The project's goal is to establish a regional surveillance network for the early detection and notification of abnormal disease events that could cause high morbidity and mortality in DC, Maryland and Virginia populations.
Press Release
Apr 20, 2004
ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Applied Physics Laboratory Names Its Inventions of the Year
A high-tech neutralization system that foils airborne pathogens, tough-but-flexible body armor and a more efficient quantum computing method are The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ University Applied Physics Laboratory's top inventions for 2003.
Press Release
Apr 19, 2004
Michael Griffin Heads Space Department at the ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Applied Physics Laboratory
Griffin oversees the second-largest department at the Laboratory, with more than 600 specialists tackling some of NASA's and the military's toughest space science and engineering challenges.
Press Release
Apr 14, 2004
ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ Applied Physics Laboratory To Name Top Inventions, Inventors on April 20
The ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ University Applied Physics Laboratory will honor 220 inventors and announce its top inventions for 2003 at its fifth annual Invention of the Year ceremony on Tuesday, April 20
Press Release
Mar 12, 2004
APL Director Richard T. Roca Named to Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee
HSSTAC has been established to serve as a source of independent scientific and technical planning advice to the Under Secretary for Science and Technology.
Press Release
Mar 9, 2004
MESSENGER Ships to the Cape
Secured in an air-conditioned moving van, MESSENGER set out from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt on March 9 and reached Kennedy Space Center/Cape Canaveral Air Force Station the next day.
Press Release
Mar 1, 2004
Space Weather Forecasts Favorable March 5 Student Space Academy
More than 100 Maryland middle school students will discover how weather in space affects life on Earth and what creates brilliant light shows in the sky (auroras) when they meet with ÃØÃÜÖ±²¥ APL scientists during Space Academy: Space Weather.