FastForward u

FastForward U is JHU’s hub for student entrepreneurship and innovation, serving students from all disciplines and campuses. FastForward U works with all students, from undergrad to post-doc, to support their entrepreneurial pursuits and turn good ideas into investable businesses.

Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute

The Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute brings together the extensive energy-related activities already underway at JHU and focuses on developing impactful programs to address transformation of the energy sector to address climate change.

ACEEE

The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) develops transformative policies to reduce energy waste and combat climate change, aiming to build a vibrant and equitable economy that uses energy  productively, reduces costs, protects the environment, and promotes the health and well-being of everyone. 

ACEEE

MEIA supports solar, wind, batteries, energy efficiency, grid modernization,  carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), and any other technology that reduces greenhouse gas emissions or provides negative emissions benefits in the electric, oil and gas, residential, commercial or industrial sectors. 

MEIA

MEIA supports solar, wind, batteries, energy efficiency, grid modernization,  carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), and any other technology that reduces greenhouse gas emissions or provides negative emissions benefits in the electric, oil and gas, residential, commercial or industrial sectors.

EA ENGINEERING, SCIENCE, & TECHNOLOGY, INC.

EA is a 100% employee-owned public benefit corporation that provides environmental, compliance, natural resources, and infrastructure engineering and management solutions to a wide range of public and private sector clients

JHU CHEMICAL & BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING DEPT.

JHU ChemBE students work together on topics ranging from the development of new therapies to conquer cancer and the creation of earth-friendly biofuels and other sources of energy to the design of molecular electronics and more.

jhu MATERIALS SCIENCE DEPT.

JHU MatSci faculty and students continuously innovate - fabricating nanostructures, leveraging artificial intelligence and data science to discover new materials, and pushing the boundary of knowledge by peering at the structure of materials at the atomic scale using the most advanced characterization tools available

JHU COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPT.

JHU Computer Science's faculty and students collaborate across Johns Hopkins divisions to advance discovery in areas ranging from AI, computational biology and medicine and information security to machine learning, robotics, and speEch and language processing

MONA GEMS

Mo.Na. Gems strives to protect Mother Earth,  reducing plastic waste in the fashion industr by developing earrings from bioplastic -- Mo.Na. gems look like synthetic plastic and come in trendy shapes, but are 100% biodegradable. When discarded, the gems break down into their natural components, leaving a minimal environmental footprint. 

A Level Capital

A Level Capital is a student-led venture firm that empowers the Johns Hopkins entrepreneurial ecosystem by investing in Hopkins alumni/affiliate-led startups. By cultivating a network of founders and leaders, they directly expose the JHU student body to the startup world, ensuring that JHU produces not only some of the brightest scientists and engineers, but some of the greatest founders and business leaders.