Department News Archive


Arts & Sciences Magazine: Beyond Our Solar System, Exoplanets 101

Arts & Sciences Magazine: Beyond Our Solar System, Exoplanets 101
Faculty from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, including Bloomberg Distinguished Professor David Sing, who is also a member of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and P&A Assistant Professor Kevin Schlaufman, explain how planets outside of our solar system are created and discovered—and whether life might exist on them.


Remembering Jan V. Vandenberg

Remembering Jan V. Vandenberg
Jan Vincent Vandenberg, a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist and systems architect who made astronomical images accessible to the public and helped catapult citizen science forward, passed away on May […]


Sloan Digital Sky Survey Given the 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award

Sloan Digital Sky Survey Given the 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award
Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named a team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey members the recipients of the 2021 SIGMOD Systems […]


Marc Kamionkowski Receives 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize

Marc Kamionkowski Receives 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski has been awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize, along with Uroš Seljak of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National […]


‘Hubble Sees Double’

‘Hubble Sees Double’
JHU’s Hub highlights the research of graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska.


Turner Woody Receives 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award

Turner Woody Receives 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award
The department is pleased to announce physics major Turner Woody as recipient of the 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award.  The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges outstanding graduating physics […]