News & Announcements Archive

Janvi Madhani and Charlotte Welker Share Findings on Satellite Galaxies at AAS Conference

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

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 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” […]

Paul Feldman Memorial Service

Paul Feldman Memorial Service

A video of Paul Feldman’s memorial service from May 14, 2022 is now available for the department.

Remembering Gabor Domokos

Remembering Gabor Domokos

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 […]

Brian Welch Leads Hubble Discovery of Most Distant Star Ever Seen

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 […]

Arshia Jacob Receives Otto Hahn Medal from Max Planck Society

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 […]

Danielle Speller Receives Sloan Fellowship

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. […]

Remembering Paul Feldman

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 […]

Chuck Bennett Receives Prestigious Rumford Prize from Academy of Arts and Sciences

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 […]