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 […]
Brian Welch Leads Hubble Discovery of Most Distant Star Ever Seen
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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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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.