Department News Archive


Brice Ménard Receives President’s Frontier Award

Brice Ménard Receives President’s Frontier Award
On Tuesday afternoon, Associate Professor Brice Ménard, received the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to support his exploration of new ways to analyze astronomical data. He said it was unexpected to […]


Melissa Diamond Named 2019 Gardner Fellow

Melissa Diamond Named 2019 Gardner Fellow
Melissa Diamond has been awarded the Gardner Fellowship in our department. Diamond is a third-year student working with David Kaplan. Her current research is focused on a project analyzing how polarized light from AGNs or other objects could be used to detect particles/fields with axion-like couplings to photons.


Jason Kalirai Named Civil Space Mission Area Executive at APL

Jason Kalirai Named Civil Space Mission Area Executive at APL
Jason Kalirai, a member of the department’s Center for Astrophysical Sciences, has been named mission area executive for civil space programs at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. His research […]


Kevin Schlaufman Discovers One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe

Kevin Schlaufman Discovers One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe
Assistant Professor Kevin Schlaufman was recently featured on The Hub for his recently published paper, “An Ultra Metal-poor Star Near the Hydrogen-burning Limit” in The Astrophysical Journal. Schlaufman and co-authors have […]


Nhan Tran awarded 2019 Henry Primakoff Award

Nhan Tran awarded 2019 Henry Primakoff Award
Former PhD student Nhan Tran has been awarded the 2019 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics by the American Physical Society. He is being recognized “for wide-ranging contributions to […]