Assistant Professor Yaojun (Jun) Zhang has been selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as one of 126 scholars that represent the most promising early-career scientists working today. The award for being named a Sloan Research Fellow in 2025 is $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of research.
Emanuele Berti Explains the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to Gizmodo
Professor Emanuele Berti helps Gizmodo readers better understand the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) in the new article titled “LISA: What the Revolutionary Gravitational Wave Observatory Will Actually See”
Sabti, Kamionkowski, and Muñoz Paper Chosen for Physical Review Letter Collection of the Year 2024
Postdoctoral Fellow Nashwan Sabti, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski, and former graduate student in the department Julian Munoz co-authored an article titled “Insights from HST into Ultramassive Galaxies and Early-Universe Cosmology” for Physical Review Letters that has been chosen as one of 50 articles in the Physical Review Letter Collection of the Year 2024.
American Institute of Physics Names JHU Society of Physics Students an Outstanding Chapter for 2024
The department’s chapter of the Society of Physics Students has been named an Outstanding Chapter for 2024 by the American Institute of Physics. Criteria for Outstanding SPS Chapter recognition includes participation in SPS programs and meetings, outreach efforts, and contributions to student recruitment.
Johns Hopkins Astrophysicists Observe Theoretically Predicted Effect in the Remnants of Dead Stars
In a new paper published by The Astrophysical Journal today, a team led by PhD candidate Nicole Crumpler has detected a long-theorized but very subtle effect in the White Dwarf “mass-radius relation.”
Danielle Speller Receives Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence from AIP and NSBP
Assistant Professor Danielle Speller received the 2024 Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence from the American Institute of Physics and the National Society of Black Physicists. Speller is recognized for neutrinoless double beta decay and dark matter research and for mentoring the next generation of aspiring physicists. “Dr. Speller not only explores the secrets of the universe but also shares them through science outreach and mentorship,” said Michael Moloney , CEO of AIP.
Interaction Day at Goddard Space Flight Center a Success
Interaction Day at Goddard Space Flight Center, organized by Space@Hopkins, offered a chance for over 50 department members to learn first-hand about the wide rage of current research being conducted at NASA GSFC. Welcomed by Deputy Operations Project Scientist Andrew Ptak, JHU students and researchers had the opportunity to share their research and learn about ongoing GSFC projects that are recruiting new scientists. In addition, the JHU visitors had the chance to tour the construction of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
Robert L. Leheny Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
Professor and Department Chair Bob Leheny became a 2024 recipient of the American Physical Society Division of Soft Matter Fellowship. His citation reads “for elucidating dynamics of colloidal glasses, nanoparticles in polymer matrices, liquid crystals, and interfacial layers, employing XPCS and active microrheology.”
OAxFORTIS Sounding Rocket Mission Successfully Completed
The Off-Axis Far-Ultraviolet Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (OAxFORTIS) sounding rocket mission successfully launched and collected data late Sunday night (22:00 hours MDT 25 August 2024) over White Sand […]
Brice Ménard Appointed as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute
Professor Brice Ménard has been appointed as one of seven new external professors at the Santa Fe Institute in 2024. Santa Fe Institute is the world’s leading research center for complex systems science. As an external professor, Ménard will help to enrich their networks of interactions, push the boundaries of complex systems science, and connect over 70 institutions around the globe.