Department News Archive


Brice Ménard Receives President’s Frontier Award

Brice Ménard Receives President’s Frontier Award
On Tuesday afternoon, Associate Professor Brice Ménard, received the $250,000 President’s Frontier Award to support his exploration of new ways to analyze astronomical data. He said it was unexpected to […]


Melissa Diamond Named 2019 Gardner Fellow

Melissa Diamond Named 2019 Gardner Fellow
Melissa Diamond has been awarded the Gardner Fellowship in our department. Diamond is a third-year student working with David Kaplan. Her current research is focused on a project analyzing how polarized light from AGNs or other objects could be used to detect particles/fields with axion-like couplings to photons.


Jason Kalirai Named Civil Space Mission Area Executive at APL

Jason Kalirai Named Civil Space Mission Area Executive at APL
Jason Kalirai, a member of the department’s Center for Astrophysical Sciences, has been named mission area executive for civil space programs at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. His research […]