News & Announcements Archive

Brice Ménard Presents the President’s Frontier Award Lecture

Brice Ménard Presents the President’s Frontier Award Lecture

The President’s Frontier Award Lecture featured 2019 recipient Dr. Brice Ménard presenting “The Wonders of Networks” on January 29th at 2:00pm in Charles Commons. We hope you were able to join […]

Bloomberg Art from Science Innovation Contest – Accepting Submissions Now

Bloomberg Art from Science Innovation Contest – Accepting Submissions Now

So much concrete. So much science. So little art. So let’s beautify. We invite submissions of visually striking art works inspired by your scientific work. Unlike BASIC 1.0, our contest […]

Emanuele Berti Selected to Present Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University

Emanuele Berti Selected to Present Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University

Professor Emanuele Berti has been selected to present the annual Buhl Lecture at Carnegie Mellon University this Spring. Each year, CMU’s Buhl Professor invites an internationally recognized scientist to give […]

Johannes Staguhn Leads Research on New Space Image of Cosmic ‘Candy Cane’

Johannes Staguhn Leads Research on New Space Image of Cosmic ‘Candy Cane’

Principal Research Scientist Johannes Staguhn is the lead author on a paper recently published in The Astrophysical Journal that describes a new image from Milky Way galaxy’s center of a […]

Colin Norman Becomes American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Colin Norman Becomes American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow

Prof. Colin Norman has been elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is lifetime distinction in honor of his invaluable contributions to science […]

Alex Szalay’s Big Data Cancer Research Featured on CBS News

Alex Szalay’s Big Data Cancer Research Featured on CBS News

On November 26, CBS aired an interview with IDIES member, Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, and Director, Dr. Alex Szalay that discussed their research collaboration on pancreatic cancer and patients who had […]

Physicist Richard Zdanis, a Former Vice Provost at JHU, Dies at 83

Physicist Richard Zdanis, a Former Vice Provost at JHU, Dies at 83

Richard A. Zdanis, an alum went on to serve in the Johns Hopkins University administration and as professor in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics and […]

Three Undergraduates Receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards

Three Undergraduates Receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards

The Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) is an award program offering a $3000 stipend to help offset expenses related to working on an independent research, creative, or scholarly project during […]

Professors Armitage and Chien on the Anniversary of the Hall Effect

Professors Armitage and Chien on the Anniversary of the Hall Effect

Edwin Hall’s discovery at JHU in autumn of 1879, which came to be called the “Hall Effect,” may be one of the most underappreciated achievements in the history of Hopkins. […]

Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Star-Forming Galaxy M33 a Success

Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Star-Forming Galaxy M33 a Success

JHU experimenters Brian Welch, Anna Carter, Russ Pelton, and Stephan McCandliss are pictured here before their launch of NASA/JHU sounding rocket 36.352 UG from White Sands Missile Range on October […]