Graduate student Mark Ho Yeuk Cheung has received a very competitive Croucher Fellowship from Hong Kong. The fellowship helps Hong Kong students pursue a PhD and supports the early stages of their […]
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Kaze Wong Receives Gravitational Wave International Committee-Braccini Prize for PhD Thesis
Kaze Wong, who received his PhD from the department working with Emanuele Berti, has received the Gravitational Wave International Committee-Braccini Prize in recognition of his PhD thesis titled “Building new […]
Rosemary Wyse Writes Autobiographical Chapter in “The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words”
Alumni Centennial Professor Rosemary Wyse has joined an assemblage of influential women astronomers by writing an autobiographical chapter in “The Sky is for Everyone: Woman Astronomers in Their Own Words.” […]
Vishal Baibhav Receives Ehlers Thesis Prize from the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation
Vishal Baibhav, who received his PhD from the department working with Emanuele Berti, has received the Ehlers Theseis Prize for best PhD thesis. The prize was awarded by the International […]
First Images from the James Webb Space Telescope Show Far Corners of the Unseen Universe
“There were times when we weren’t sure if things would work, but they’re working spectacularly,” says Dan Coe, A&S ’04 (MA), ’07 (PhD), an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science […]
Nicole Crumpler, Hector Cruz, Rojin Jafari, Yi Luo, and Thomas Waddleton Receive Teaching Awards
The Graduate Program Committee is pleased to announce their selection of the most outstanding graduate student Teaching Assistants in the department with their annual graduate teaching awards. The recipients are: EJ […]
10 Year Anniversary of the Discovery of the Higgs Boson
There was a bump in the middle of the night. On June 14, 2012, Physics and Astronomy Professor Andrei Gritsan analyzed data in a small meeting room at the CERN […]
Janvi Madhani and Charlotte Welker Share Findings on Satellite Galaxies at AAS Conference
PhD candidate Janvi Madhani and Postdoctoral Fellow Charlotte Welker presented their research on satellite galaxies at this year’s American Astronomical Society conference. The Hopkins team employed the New Horizon cosmological […]
Jacob Hamer Presents Research on Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Formation at AAS Conference
PhD candidate Jacob Hamer presented the findings from his Astronomical Journal publication on hot Jupiter exoplanet formation at this year’s American Astronomical Society conference. Hamer was the lead author of […]
Sumit Dahal Selected by Forbes for “30 Under 30” in Healthcare & Science
Sumit Dahal, who earned his PhD in the department working with Toby Marriage and Chuck Bennett on the CLASS experiment, has been selected by Forbes as a “30 Under 30” […]