Gabor Domokos, Professor Emeritus of the Physics and Astronomy Department passed away recently, shortly after his 89th birthday. He had been a member of the Johns Hopkins community since 1968. His […]
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Particle Physics
Astrophysics
Brian Welch Leads Hubble Discovery of Most Distant Star Ever Seen
Graduate student Brian Welch is the lead author of a Nature publication that employed the Hubble Space Telescope to detect the light of a star that existed within the first […]
Astrophysics, Awards
Arshia Jacob Receives Otto Hahn Medal from Max Planck Society
Arisha Jacob, a postdoctoral fellow working with David Neufeld, has received an Otto Hahn Medal, awarded annually to outstanding young researchers by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of […]
Awards
Danielle Speller Receives Sloan Fellowship
Assistant Professor Danielle Speller has received a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowship honors early-career science researchers who show exceptional promise in their fields. […]
Astrophysics
Remembering Paul Feldman
Professor Paul Feldman spent over five decades in service to the department, including a very consequential role from 1996 to 2002 as the department chair. He was a world-renowned researcher […]
Astrophysics, Awards
Chuck Bennett Receives Prestigious Rumford Prize from Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts & Sciences has awarded Blooomberg Distinguished Professor Charles L. Bennett one of the oldest and most celebrated awards in science, the Rumford Prize, an honor […]
Uncategorized
Investor Bill Miller gives $50M to Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy
Miller's $50 million commitment will fund endowed professorships, postdoctoral fellowships, and graduate research, and will provide ongoing support for research infrastructure. His gift also served as the impetus for two anonymous donors to support the department as well, expanding to $75 million the funding to advance key areas of physics research.
Awards
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alex Szalay Receives Life Sciences Award for Astropath Cancer Mapping Technology
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alex Szalay and Kimmel Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, M.D., M.Sc., received a Life Sciences 2021 award for AstroPath at this year’s Falling Walls Science Summit, an international event honoring […]
Astrophysics
Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium: December 2 @ 3PM – Registration Now Open
Save the date: Space@Hopkins will be holding a virtual symposium on December 2 at 3:00 PM. The event will focus on current and future civil space research, exploration, and technology, featuring NASA […]
Awards, Undergraduate
Lucas Mandacaru Guerra, Rongrong Liu, and Shreya Sriramineni Receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards
Three physics majors, Lucas Mandacaru Guerra, Rongrong Liu, and Shreya Sriramineni have received Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards (PURA). The PURA program was created to support and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students […]