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David Sing Named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

David Sing Named Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

“Dr. Sing has established himself as a leader of the vanguard in exoplanet research,” says Beverly Wendland, dean of the Krieger School. “We expect the new directions his discoveries will take at Johns Hopkins will add a great deal to the local and global community of scholars.”

Chia-Ling Chien Elected Academician of Academia Sinica

Chia-Ling Chien Elected Academician of Academia Sinica

Chia-Ling Chien, the department’s Jacob K. Hain Professor of Physics, has been elected Academician of Academia Sinica, one of only five new members in the Division of Mathematics and Physical […]

The Institute for Quantum Matter to Become an Energy Frontier Research Center

The Institute for Quantum Matter to Become an Energy Frontier Research Center

The Institute for Quantum Matter is to become an Energy Frontier Research Center. IQM will focus on the realization and understanding of new states of quantum matter: (1) Quantum Spin […]

Natalia Drichko’s Lab Publishes Evidence for a New Property of Quantum Matter

Natalia Drichko’s Lab Publishes Evidence for a New Property of Quantum Matter

A theorized but never-before detected property of quantum matter has now been spotted in the lab, a team led by Associate Research Professor Natalia Drichko reports. The study findings, published online […]

Tyrel McQueen & Jonah Erlebacher and Team Awarded 2018 JHU Discovery Award

Tyrel McQueen & Jonah Erlebacher and Team Awarded 2018 JHU Discovery Award

A departmental team led by Tyrel McQueen and Jonah Erlebacher (WSE) has been chosen to receive a 2018 Johns Hopkins Discovery Award for their proposal, “Exotic Superconductors by Design.” The […]

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, […]

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 […]