An article by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times today summarizes the exciting discovery that one of earliest supermassive black holes to form in the universe lives at the […]
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Adam Riess Receives 2020 Chalonge-de Vega Medals from the International School of Astrophysics
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Adam Riess has received the 2020 Chalonge-de Vega Medals from the International School of Astrophysics in Paris. The citation for the award reads: “for his contribution to […]
K. D. Kuntz Participates in STORM, NASA’s New Mission to Study the Earth’s Magnetosheath
Research Scientist K. D. Kuntz will contribute to the Solar-Terrestrial Observer for the Response of the Magnetosphere (STORM) mission that has been selected by NASA for Phase-A study, in preparation […]
Undergraduate Vedant Chandra Leads Successful White Dwarf Research
A team of student researchers supervised by Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska recently authored a study in The Astrophysical Journal describing their new measurement of the white dwarf mass-radius relationship. The […]
Jeffrey (Heshy) Roskes Receives Springer Award
Jeffrey (Heshy) Roskes, who earned his PhD in the department in October 2019, working on studies of the Higgs boson with Prof. Andrei Gritsan, has received the Springer Award for an outstanding PhD […]
Tyrel McQueen and Surjeet Rajendran Involved in the DOE’s New Quantum Information Science Research Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced the formation of five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers and two members of the department are involved with […]
Remembering Mark Robbins
Professor Mark Robbins taught at Johns Hopkins for more than 30 years, studying the atomic origin of macroscopic phenomena such as earthquakes and avalanches and helping lead the establishment of […]
Jonathan Bagger to Become CEO of American Physical Society
From Philip H. Bucksbaum, President of the American Physical Society (APS), regarding Research Professor Jonathan Bagger: I have the pleasure to announce that theoretical physicist Jonathan Bagger has been selected to […]
Remembering Ron Allen
From Ken Sembach, Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute: Dear Colleagues, It is with sadness that I inform you that our colleague and emeritus astronomer Ron Allen passed away […]
Alex Szalay Receives the Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize
Professor Alex Szalay is one of three recipients of the 2020 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize. The award is in recognition of Professor Szalay’s “pioneering work on demonstrating that the […]