News & Announcements Archive

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 […]

Investor Bill Miller gives $50M to Johns Hopkins Department of Physics and Astronomy

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.

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alex Szalay Receives Life Sciences Award for Astropath Cancer Mapping Technology

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 […]

Space@Hopkins Virtual Symposium: December 2 @ 3PM – Registration Now Open

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 […]

Lucas Mandacaru Guerra, Rongrong Liu, and Shreya Sriramineni Receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards

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 […]

Physics and Poetry in Dialogue

Physics and Poetry in Dialogue

Nobel Laureate Adam Riess and former U.K. Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talk about the universe ahead of the December launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. 

Space@Hopkins 2021 Seed Grant Recipients Announced

Space@Hopkins 2021 Seed Grant Recipients Announced

Space@Hopkins, directed by Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett, connects the array of Johns Hopkins University divisions, departments, and collaborative institutions in their common pursuit of civilian space research. The 2021 […]

“Mapping the Universe’s Origin Story” Johns Hopkins Magazine on the James Webb Space Telescope Launch

“Mapping the Universe’s Origin Story” Johns Hopkins Magazine on the James Webb Space Telescope Launch

The long-awaited James Webb Space Telescope, which launches in December, will help astronomers understand the birth, evolution, and future of our universe.