Postdoctoral fellow Vivian Poulin, along with graduate student Tanvi Karwal, Professsor Marc Kamionkowski, and Tristan Smith, of Swarthmore College, have published a paper that offers a resolution to one of […]
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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 […]
Cristina Mantilla Suarez Selected as LHC Physics Center’s Graduate Scholar
Graduate student Cristina Mantilla Suarez has been selected as one of the two LHC Physics Center’s Graduate Scholars for 2019. This program is aimed to support exceptional Graduate Students from the US […]
Kevin Schlaufman Discovers One of the Oldest Stars in the Universe
Assistant Professor Kevin Schlaufman was recently featured on The Hub for his recently published paper, “An Ultra Metal-poor Star Near the Hydrogen-burning Limit” in The Astrophysical Journal. Schlaufman and co-authors have […]
Nhan Tran awarded 2019 Henry Primakoff Award
Former PhD student Nhan Tran has been awarded the 2019 Henry Primakoff Award for Early-Career Particle Physics by the American Physical Society. He is being recognized “for wide-ranging contributions to […]
Yichen Shen, Class of ’11, Named Forbes’ “30 Under 30” for Energy Technology
Yichen Shen, former JHU Physics major (class of 2011), has been named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30” for his contributions to energy technology. Yichen is the founder and CEO […]
NASA Features Prof Julian Krolik’s Work on Spiraling Supermassive Black Holes
NASA featured science by Prof. Julian Krolik and co-authors on their homepage today. The science focuses on a computer simulation of two supermassive black holes spiraling toward collision. It fully […]
Shu Zhang Earns Graduate Fellowship at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
Graduate student Shu “Suzy” Zhang has earned a graduate fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. The purpose of the Graduate Fellowship Program is to offer a unique opportunity […]
Rosemary Wyse Awarded Honorary Doctor of Science from Queen Mary, U. of London
Professor Rosemary F. G. Wyse has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from her undergraduate alma mater, Queen Mary College, University of London. Dr. Wyse is pictured here in […]
Former Graduate Student Jennifer Lotz Becomes Director of Gemini Observatory
Dr. Jennifer Lotz, who earned her Ph. D. in our department, has been appointed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) as the next Director of the […]