| A JHU research team led by Chia-Ling Chien is at the forefront of the exiting new field of iron-based high temperature superconductivity. These new materials are different from the well-known copper-oxide-based superconductors and offer a possible new pathway to high temperature superconducting applications. Click here for the paper by Chen et al. in the journal Nature. Click here for more information |
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| Congratulations to this year’s Prize and Award winners: Joshua Cogan (Donald E. Kerr Award), Daniel Scolnic (Rowland Prize), Shawn Smout (EJ Rhee Teaching Award), and Gregory Caravelli (Rowland Prize). Click here for more information |
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| The 32st Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory: Perspectives in String Theory
Seoul, Korea, May 27-31, 2008 Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is among the leading departments nationwide in the recent rankings by Academic Analytics, with Hopkins placing well within the top ten in both the physics and the astronomy - astrophysics rankings. JHU as a whole is also ranked in the top ten. For the list of the top fifty research universities, click here. |
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| Six of the top nine physics and astrophysics articles most cited in 2005 were authored by researchers now in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, according to the SPIRES database of Stanford University.
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| Johns Hopkins University alumnus Dr. Seunghun Lee is the recipient of the 2008 Science Prize from the Neutron Scattering Society of America "for his innovative and insightful neutron scattering studies of frustrated magnetic systems." Click here for more information |
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| The 2007 Brickwedde Lecture in Physics and Astronomy - "The Coming Revolutions in Fundamental Physics", will be held at 4pm on Tuesday, Dec. 4, in the Schafler Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center. The speaker is Prof. David J. Gross, Director of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and Frederick W. Gluck Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and 2004 Nobel Laureate in Physics. Following the Brickwedde tradition, Prof. Gross will also be department colloquium speaker on Thursday, Dec. 6. Click here for more information |
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| On October 18, 2007, Hopkins astronomers terminated on-orbit operations of the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite after eight years. FUSE was operated for NASA from a control room in Bloomberg by a team of 25 scientists and engineers, led by Prof. Warren Moos. FUSE obtained more then 130 million seconds of science data before succumbing to pointing system failures in July 2007. Click here for more information |
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| The Department of Physics and Astronomy is hosting the Galaxy Zoo website, where people classify galaxies by shape. More than 70,000 people have made almost 7 million classifications; their work will help us understand how galaxies evolve. The site was featured on BBC News. Click here for more information |
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| Hopkins alumna Meg Urry has been named Chair of the Physics Department at Yale. She was the first female tenured faculty member in the Yale Physics Department; she is now the first woman chair in the physical sciences at Yale. Click here for more information |
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| The Maryland Association of Higher Education is honoring Bruce Barnett with its 2007 Outstanding Faculty Award. He will receive the honor on March 9 at the MAHE conference at the University of Maryland University College. Click here for more information |
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| Goddard astrophysicist Ann Hornschemeier, former JHU Chandra Fellow and member of JHU's adjunct faculty, won the 2007 Annie Jump Cannon Award of the American Astronomical Society. Click here for more information |
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| JHU's MRSEC has received an NSF Partnership for Research and Education in Materials grant, with Howard University and Prince George's Community College, to enhance diversity in materials research and education through collaborations that engage students in nanomaterials research. Click here for more information |
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| A team from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Illinois at Chicago's National Center for Data Mining recently won the seventh annual Bandwidth Challenge, moving the equivalent of 2,000 CDs full of data more than 1,000 miles in less than 20 minutes. Click here for more information |
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| Raman Sundrum has been named Alumni Centennial Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in recognition of his pathbreaking achievements in particle theory. |
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| A JHU team, including Chi-Ling Chien and Frank Zhu, discovered a novel method for assembling nanowires in suspension into scaffolds using electric fields. Click here for more information |
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| A team led by Adam Riess discovered that dark energy was accelerating the expansion of the universe at least as long as 9 billion years ago Click here for more information |
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| Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Charles L. Bennett has been awarded the 2006 Harvey Prize, given annually by the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology. He was also a member of the team that won the Peter Gruber Foundation's 2006 Cosmology Prize. Click here for more information on the 2006 Harvey Prize Click here for more information on the Peter Gruber Foundation's 2006 Cosmology Prize |
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| Petar Maksimovic, together with his group, discovered the \Sigma_b particle at Fermilab. The \Sigma_b is a relative of the proton, with spin 3/2 and one bottom quark (instead of an up quark). Graduate student Jen Pursley was instrumental to the discovery. Click here for more information |
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| Richard Henry spoke with NPR's David Kestenbaum on All Things Considered about the planet Pluto. To hear the broadcast, click here. |
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| On Wednesday, June 21st, 2006, the Shaw Prize Foundation announced The Shaw Laureates for 2006. Adam Riess was awarded the Prize for Astronomy along with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt. Click here for more information |
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| Elizabeth Freeland has been named the winner of the 2006 M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship for Women in Physics. She earned her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from JHU in 1996. Click here for more information |
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| At an awards ceremony on May 4, Jon Bagger presented excellence awards; Donald Kerr Memorial Award,The Rowland Prize, and The Undergrad Teaching Award. Jared Evans is this year's reciepient of the Donald E. Kerr Medal. Click here for more information |
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| Steve Patterson was the winner of a 2006 KSAS Staff Recognition Award, for the skill and commitment with which he has led the Physical Sciences Machine Shop. Click here for more information |
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