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Prof. Rosemary Wyse Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Prof. Rosemary Wyse Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Prof. Rosemary Wyse has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.  The criterion for election is exceptional contributions to the physics enterprise.  Wyse was recognized “For pioneering contributions […]

Marc Kamionkowski to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at University of Heidelberg

Marc Kamionkowski to give the Hans Jensen Lecture at University of Heidelberg

Prof. Marc Kamionkowski 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 named for Hans Jensen, who shared the 1963 Nobel Prize for the nuclear shell model, and is intended to honor speakers who have made fundamental contributions to a research area in modern physics.

Chuck Bennett receives Isaac Newton Medal & Prize from the Institute of Physics

Chuck Bennett receives Isaac Newton Medal & Prize from the Institute of Physics

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett is the recipient of the 2017 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, announced today by the Institute of Physics in London in recognition of research that […]

Tobias Marriage Receives CAREER Award From the National Science Foundation

Tobias Marriage Receives CAREER Award From the National Science Foundation

Assistant Professor Tobias Marriage has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The award supports research by graduate and undergraduate students analyzing data from the JHU-led Cosmology Large […]

Chuck Bennett Appears on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition All Week

Chuck Bennett Appears on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition All Week

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett has appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition everyday this week for a daily cosmology series – listen to each segment.

Peter Armitage and Team Discover Clue to Key Mystery of Modern Physics

Peter Armitage and Team Discover Clue to Key Mystery of Modern Physics

In an paper published in Science, Associate Professor Peter Armitage and a team of six scientists from JHU and Rutgers University experiment with material that straddles world of classical physics and a hidden quantum realm.

Stephan McCandliss and team awarded Astrophysics Research Analysis Grant

Stephan McCandliss and team awarded Astrophysics Research Analysis Grant

NASA has awarded Physics and Astronomy Research Professor Stephan McCandliss, and his Co-Investigators at Goddard Space Flight Center lead by S. Harvey Moseley, a 5-year, $4.4M Astrophysics Research Analysis (APRA) grant to develop the next generation of a sounding rocket borne experiment called the Far-UV Off Rowland-circle Telescope for Imaging and Spectroscopy (FORTIS).

Rosemary F.G. Wyse Named AAAS Fellow

Rosemary F.G. Wyse Named AAAS Fellow

The American Association for the Advancement of Science has named Rosemary F.G. Wyse has been an AAAS Fellow by her peers at the Council of the American Association for the […]

Rosemary Wyse Named 2016 Blaauw Professor; Will Give the Blaauw Lecture

Rosemary Wyse Named 2016 Blaauw Professor; Will Give the Blaauw Lecture

Prof. Rosemary Wyse has been named the 2016 Blaauw Professor, and will give the Blaauw lecture. This annual lecture is hosted by the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of […]

Astrophysicists argue Fast Radio Bursts could provide clues to Dark Matter

Astrophysicists argue Fast Radio Bursts could provide clues to Dark Matter

Graduate student Julian Muñoz, postdoc Ely D. Kovetz, Prof. Marc Kamionkowski, and recent Ph.D. alum Liang Dai, have published a paper in Physical Review Letters that proposes a clever new […]