News & Announcements Archive

Marc Kamionkowski and Team Awarded 2018 JHU Discovery Award

Marc Kamionkowski and Team Awarded 2018 JHU Discovery Award

A departmental team led by Prof. Marc Kamionkowski has been chosen to receive a 2018 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for their proposal, “In Search of the Cosmic Dark Sector.” The […]

Jared Kaplan Promoted to Associate Professor

Jared Kaplan Promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to Jared Kaplan, who has been promoted to the rank of tenured Associate Professor effective on July 1. Jared joined the faculty here as an Assistant Professor in 2012. […]

David Kaplan Receives 2018 Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics

David Kaplan Receives 2018 Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics announced today that particle physicist and movie producer David Kaplan has won the 2018 Andrew Gemant Award, an annual prize recognizing contributions to the cultural, […]

Wesley Fuhrman Recognized by the Schmidt Science Fellows Program

Wesley Fuhrman Recognized by the Schmidt Science Fellows Program

Doctoral candidate Wesley Fuhrman has been selected as an inaugural Schmidt Science Fellow for his research into topological insulators. Endowed by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, and his […]

Physics Fair This Saturday, April 21st

Physics Fair This Saturday, April 21st

The department’s 15th annual Physics Fair will take place this Saturday, April 21 throughout Bloomberg Center beginning at 11 a.m. and ending at 5:30 p.m. Please join the fun!

Undergraduate Wenzer Qin a Recipient of a Barry Goldwater Scholarship

Undergraduate Wenzer Qin a Recipient of a Barry Goldwater Scholarship

Wenzer Qin, an undergraduate junior in the department, has been selected as a recipient of a Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The Goldwater Scholarship Program seeks to identify and support college sophomores […]

Julian Krolik Honored With Simons Fellowship

Julian Krolik Honored With Simons Fellowship

Professor Julian Krolik has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Physics, which provides scholars with the opportunity to spend a year away from classroom and administrative duties in order to […]

Evidence Points to Cooling Property of Dark Matter as JHU Researchers Predicted

Evidence Points to Cooling Property of Dark Matter as JHU Researchers Predicted

A new measurement reported in Nature provides evidence for a new cooling property of dark matter posited by a collection of professors, postdoctoral fellows, and students from our department. The […]

Andy Connolly Appointed to the JHU Society of Scholars

Andy Connolly Appointed to the JHU Society of Scholars

Prof. Andy Connolly has been appointed to the JHU Society of Scholars. Andy was a postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Research Scientist in our department from 1993 to 1999, working primarily […]

Yi Li Selected for an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

Yi Li Selected for an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship

Assistant Professor Yi Li has been selected for an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship for her outstanding research in condensed matter physics theory. Alfred P. Sloan Fellowships are awarded to “early-career […]