Associate Professor Kevin Schlaufman recently co-authored an article in Nature Astronomy that revealed the most metal-poor, chemically primitive star ever found, SDSS J0715-7334. Studying this low-mass, ultra-metal-poor star could help […]
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NASA Hubble Fellowship Program recognizes Konstantinos Kritos, Sizheng Ma, and David Setton
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2026 class. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area […]
William Balmer awarded 51 Pegasi b Fellowship from Heising-Simons Foundation
William Balmer, who expects to complete their PhD in the department this summer, was awarded a competitive 51 Pegasi b Fellowship by the Heising-Simons Foundation to continue their research at […]
Isaac Moskowitz, Sami Muhammad, and Gavin Wang receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate student Isaac Moskowitz and undergraduate students Sami Muhammad and Gavin Wang have each received Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. Since 1952, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship […]
Emanuele Berti, Collin Broholm, and David DeMille named AAAS Fellows
Emanuele Berti, Collin Broholm, and David DeMille are among 449 distinguished scholars elected to the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, […]
William Blair leads new observations of the Crab Nebula using the Hubble Space Telescope
The longevity of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has allowed a unique study of the changes in the iconic Crab Nebula supernova remnant by comparing data obtained in 1999 versus a […]
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung a finalist for 2026 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Dissertation Award in Astrophysics
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung (PhD ’25) has been selected as a finalist for the 2026 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Doctoral Dissertation Award in Astrophysics. Cheung was named a finalist “for opening new research avenues […]
Benjamin Wandelt joins JHU as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cosmology and Scientific AI
Driven by a deep curiosity about the origins and structure of the universe and a passion for developing the computational tools needed to unlock its secrets, Benjamin Wandelt studies the […]
LSST Discovery Alliance Regional Meeting at JHU, May 11-15: “From Transients to Cosmology”
We are pleased to announce the first LSST Discovery Alliance (DA) Regional Meeting “Science with LSST: From Transients to Cosmology”, that will be held at Johns Hopkins University (Homewood Campus, […]
Jun Zhang receives NIH Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award
Assistant Professor Yaojun (Jun) Zhang has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health. Her research, which will be funded for five years from the […]