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Marc Kamionkowski Receives 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize

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’

‘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

“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

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

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

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

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

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.

Bingjie Wang Receives American Astronomical Society’s Roger Doxsey Travel Prize

Bingjie Wang Receives American Astronomical Society’s Roger Doxsey Travel Prize

Graduate student Bingjie Wang has received the Roger Doxsey Travel Prize from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in recognition of her presentation of her thesis research at the annual winter […]

Enrico Di Teodoro’s Science Publication Unveils A Galaxy That Ages Like No Other

Enrico Di Teodoro’s Science Publication Unveils A Galaxy That Ages Like No Other

Postdoctoral Fellow Enrico Di Teodoro recently published a paper in Science focusing on a galaxy in the very young Universe that unexpectedly looks like a very old galaxy. A galaxy […]