Postdoctoral Fellow Tommi Tenkanen recently had a paper published as editor’s suggestion in Physical Review Letters that provides a new explanation for dark matter and explains how it may have […]
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CLASS Telescope Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered
In a segment titled “Telescope In Chile’s Mountains Looks For Signals To Explain How The Universe Began,” NPR Science Journalist Joe Palca interviews Associate Professor Toby Marriage and others to […]
Emanuele Berti Named Fellow and President Elect of ISGRG
At last week’s meeting of the International Society of General Relativity and Gravitation (ISGRG), Professor Emanuele Berti was named a Fellow, and was also voted as the new President Elect of the society. […]
What Gives Animal Cells Their Agency? Yu Shi Measures Cytoskeletal Fluctuations
Graduate student Yu Shi is the lead author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that examines cellular dynamics using micropost arrays. The ability […]
Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) 20th Anniversary Reunion
Last Friday the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Astrophysical Sciences at JHU hosted a reunion of those who worked on the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) […]
Riccardo Giacconi Memorial Symposium Held at National Academy of Sciences
The Space Telescope Science Institute, Center for Astrophysics (Harvard & Smithsonian), Johns Hopkins University, the European Southern Observatory, and Associated Universities, Inc. organized a memorial symposium in honor of Riccardo […]
Adam Riess Featured on NPR’s On Point Radio
Prof. Adam Riess was a guest on NPR’s On Point Radio this morning to discuss his new research about the age of the universe. Listen to the interview via the […]
Brice Ménard Leads the Johns Hopkins Helium Balloon Project to Great Heights
A team of Johns Hopkins students led by Prof. Brice Ménard recently launched cameras and other devices more than 16 miles into the Earth’s atmosphere to collect data, then tracked […]
Joe Silk Awarded the 2019 Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Homewood Professor Joe Silk has been awarded the 2019 Gruber Prize in Cosmology, along with Nick Kaiser. The citation reads: “Through different but complementary approaches to the same problems in […]
Graduate and Undergraduate Students Receive Annual Department Awards
Graduate Student Awards Gardner Fellowship: Melissa Diamond The Gardner Fellowship was founded by William Gardner (Ph.D., ’68), who received his Ph.D. in physics under Prof. Warren Moos and had a […]