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K. D. Kuntz Participates in STORM, NASA’s New Mission to Study the Earth’s Magnetosheath

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Jeffrey Cummings and Sihao Cheng Author Paper on Carbon’s Origin in the Milky Way

Jeffrey Cummings and Sihao Cheng Author Paper on Carbon’s Origin in the Milky Way

Associate Research Scientist Jeffrey Cummings and graduate student Sihao Cheng are among the authors of a new study in Nature Astronomy that sheds light on carbon’s origin in the Milky Way. The paper […]

Graduate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020

Graduate Teaching Awards for 2019-2020

The graduate program committee recognizes an outstanding performance by co-head teaching assistants Melissa Diamond and Joshua Kable who have performed significantly above and beyond the call of duty this term, and have […]