Jan Vincent Vandenberg, a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist and systems architect who made astronomical images accessible to the public and helped catapult citizen science forward, passed away on May […]
Remembering Jan V. Vandenberg
News & Announcements Archive
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Given the 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award
Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named a team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey members the recipients of the 2021 SIGMOD Systems […]
Marc Kamionkowski Receives 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski has been awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize, along with Uroš Seljak of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National […]
‘Hubble Sees Double’
JHU’s Hub highlights the research of graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska.
“Mapping Cancer as if it were the Universe,” Alex Szalay Featured in The Economist
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alex Szalay is featured in this article from The Economist, “Cancer research – Mapping cancer as if it were the universe,” on how techniques from astronomy are […]
Turner Woody Receives 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award
The department is pleased to announce physics major Turner Woody as recipient of the 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award. The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges outstanding graduating physics […]
Justin Otter, Bastian Pradenas, Isu Ravi, Sanjana Sekhar, and Nicholas Speeney Receive Graduate 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. Justin Otter is […]
Erwin Tanin Receives International Student Prize Fellowship
Second year graduate student Erwin Tanin has been awarded an International Student Prize Fellowship by the department. Tanin is working in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology with David Kaplan and Surjeet […]
Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Nadia Zakamska’s publication unveils discovery of “Dual Supermassive Black Holes” in the Distant Universe
Graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska are part of the research team that has published an article in Nature Astronomy titled “A hidden population of high-redshift double […]
Brian Camley’s New Research Shows Cells Can Walk on Microscopic Tight Ropes
The findings shed light on the behaviors of cells in certain environments and may have implications for drug research.