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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.

Research by Ron Allen, Michael Busch, and Philip Engelke Highlighted in Newsweek

Research by Ron Allen, Michael Busch, and Philip Engelke Highlighted in Newsweek

Recently published research by the late Professor Ronald J. Allen and PhD students Michael Busch and Philip Engelke was the focus of a Tech & Science article in Newsweek titled “Scientists Accidentally Discover […]

Danielle Speller Receives the 2021 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics from APS

Danielle Speller Receives the 2021 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics from APS

The American Physical Society has awarded Assistant Professor Danielle Speller the 2021 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics, which recognizes an outstanding early career experimentalist in nuclear physics. […]