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Graduate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020

June 26, 2020

The graduate program committee recognizes an outstanding performance by co-head teaching assistants Melissa Diamond and Joshua Kable who have performed significantly above and beyond the call of duty this term, and have […]

Yi Li Receives 2020 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award

June 18, 2020

Assistant Professor Yi Li has been chosen as a 2020 Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award recipient. This is in recognition of her exceptional work as an early-career investigator, which embodies the […]

Brice Ménard Applies Deep Space Algorithm to Study Deep Earth in “Science” Publication

June 11, 2020

Associate Professor Brice Ménard and graduate student Dalya Baron developed a novel algorithm called the Sequencer originally intended to find interesting trends in astronomical datasets. Now, a new Science publication describes […]

Katherine Xiang Receives a Hertz Fellowship

May 29, 2020

Graduating Physics major Katherine Xiang has won a Hertz Fellowship. The Hertz Fellowship supports the research of PhD students who demonstrate the greatest potential to tackle the most urgent problems […]

Peter Armitage and Collin Broholm receive grants to further our understanding of the ‘weirdness’ of quantum materials

May 29, 2020

Professors Armitage and Broholm will each receive $1.6 million over five years to develop new techniques for measuring intrinsic quantum mechanical correlations in solids. The grants are provided by the […]

José Luis Bernal Receives Spanish Astronomical Society’s 2020 Prize for Best Thesis

May 28, 2020

Postdoctoral Fellow José Luis Bernal, the department’s Davis Fellow, has been awarded the Spanish Astronomical Society’s 2020 prize for best thesis. Bernal’s thesis, “Cosmology on the Edge of the Λ-Cold […]

Paul Gosling (BS ’03) Addresses Graduating Class During 2020 Commencement

May 27, 2020

Paul Gosling (BS ’03) addressed the graduating class of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics & Astronomy during 2020 commencement. Gosling is Environmental Systems Branch Chief, Flight Operations Directorate […]

Chia-Ling Chien Presented with the 2020 Achievement Award of the IEEE Magnetics Society

May 21, 2020

Prof. Chia-Ling Chien has been presented with the 2020 Achievement Award of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Magnetics Society. This is the highest award bestowed by the […]

Surjeet Rajendran Receives two Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards

May 18, 2020

Associate Professor Surjeet Rajendran is the recipient of two Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Awards this year. These awards hope to stimulate ideas on innovative ways in […]

Sydney Timmerman and Katherine Xiang Co-recipients of the 2020 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award

April 24, 2020

The Department is pleased to announce Physics majors Sydney Timmerman and Katherine Xiang as co-recipients of the 2020 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award. The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges […]

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