ACENT Laboratories LLC was awarded a share of a $48.5 million federal contract by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, for Enhanced Operability Scramjet Technology. Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc. Dayton, Ohio; Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, Elkton, Md.; Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Jupiter, Fla.; John Hopkins University, Laurel, Md.; and Aerojet, Rancho Cordova, Calif., shared in the award amount.

Amanda Nickles Fader, M.D., a widely published and internationally recognized surgeon with a specialty in minimally invasive women's cancer surgery and obesity and cancer, has joined Johns Hopkins Medicine as director of the Kelly Gynecologic Oncology Service and director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Center in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. She also holds the appointment of associate professor of gynecologic oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Fader has extensive training in the use of special laparascopes and robotics to perform complex gynecologic cancer operations. Prior to her appointment at Johns Hopkins, she served as an associate director of gynecologic oncology and director of robotic surgery at Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

Johns Hopkins University appointed Jay L. Lenrow to its board of trustees with four year term. He currently serves on the board of advisors for both the Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Johns Hopkins Hillel, and is JHU's alumni council vice president and an executive board member. Bringing over 35 years legal experience, Lenrow focuses his practice on real estate law, corporate law, construction law and real estate finance. He joined ARD&H earlier this year, after serving as a principal in Lenrow, Kohn & Oliver, P.C.