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Physicist Richard Zdanis, a Former Vice Provost at JHU, Dies at 83

Physicist Richard Zdanis, a Former Vice Provost at JHU, Dies at 83

Richard A. Zdanis, an alum went on to serve in the Johns Hopkins University administration and as professor in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Physics and […]

Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Star-Forming Galaxy M33 a Success

Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Star-Forming Galaxy M33 a Success

JHU experimenters Brian Welch, Anna Carter, Russ Pelton, and Stephan McCandliss are pictured here before their launch of NASA/JHU sounding rocket 36.352 UG from White Sands Missile Range on October […]

C.L. Chien’s Team Report New Superconducting Material

C.L. Chien’s Team Report New Superconducting Material

Prof. C.L. Chien’s team of researchers have found a superconducting material that could someday power quantum computers. The material naturally exists between two states, a finding that could pave the […]

APS Physics Elects Andrei Gritsan, Michael Falk & Oleg Tchernyshyov as Fellows

APS Physics Elects Andrei Gritsan, Michael Falk & Oleg Tchernyshyov as Fellows

Professors Andrei Gritsan, Michael Falk (joint with Materials Science And Engineering), and Oleg Tchernyshyov have been elected as Fellows of the American Physical Society. No more than ½% of APS […]

Nhan Tran Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Nhan Tran Receives Department of Energy Early Career Research Award

Nhan Tran, who earned his Ph. D. in the department in 2011 (supervised by Prof. Andrei Gritsan), received the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Award for deep-learning acceleration […]

Ulascan Sarica Receives Springer Award

Ulascan Sarica Receives Springer Award

Ulascan Sarica, who earned his Ph.D. in the department in October 2018, working on studies of the Higgs boson with Prof. Andrei Gritsan, has received the Springer Award for an outstanding […]

Brice Ménard to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at University of Heidelberg

Brice Ménard to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at University of Heidelberg

Prof. Brice Ménard has been invited to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at the University of Heidelberg as part of the doctoral program’s biannual “Heidelberg Physics Graduate Days.”  The lecture is […]

CLASS Telescope Featured on NPR’s All Things Considered

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

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. […]

Two Department Members Chosen for Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Two Department Members Chosen for Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Prof. Marc Kamionkowski and Associate Research Scientist Rachel Osten have been selected to steering committee for the upcoming National Academy of Sciences decadal survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics.  We are […]