With its world-renowned faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy combines the best aspects of a top research university with the more intimate learning environment typical of small liberal arts colleges.
Graduate students have flexibility in choosing their course of research and designing their path through the program.
Whether your interest is in astronomy, condensed matter, particle physics, or plasma spectroscopy, you'll find state-of-the-art tools at your disposal.
Students have the opportunity to work with experts in a wide range of fields, even as undergraduates.
“Thanks to a variety of efforts that the scientific community is undertaking, over the next decade we could transform a trickle of multi-messenger discoveries into a flood. The goal of the NRAO-JHU partnership is to address some of the key challenges that lie ahead of this transformation.” - Alessandra Corsi, W.H. Miller Professor
Undergraduate physics majors Sami Muhammad ('26) and Yuran Ryan Zhang ('26) have each received the Provost's Undergraduate Research Award The PURA program was created to assist and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students to continue or begin independent research, scholarly and creative projects with our amazing university mentors over the summer.
Alumni Centennial Professor Rosemary F. G. Wyse is among 120 members and 30 international members elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Her research focus is in the field of galaxy formation and evolution, with emphases on resolved stellar populations and the nature of...