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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 […]

Take a Video Tour of the CLASS Telescope Site in Chile’s Atacama Desert

Take a Video Tour of the CLASS Telescope Site in Chile’s Atacama Desert

Prof. Tobias Marriage leads a video tour of the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) project site on Cerro Toco in Chile’s Atacama desert. Prof. Tobias Marriage and Prof. Charles […]

Four Early-Career Faculty Members Receive 2016 Catalyst Awards

Four Early-Career Faculty Members Receive 2016 Catalyst Awards

Prof. Jared Kaplan, Prof. Tobias Marriage, Prof. Tyrel McQueen, and Prof. Nadia Zakamska have each received Catalyst Awards and $75,000 grants for their innovative, faculty-led research endeavors. The program is […]

Charles Bennett selected as recipient of International “Space Science Award”

Charles Bennett selected as recipient of International “Space Science Award”

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Alumni Centennial Professor, and Director of Space@Hopkins, Charles Bennett has been selected as a recipient of the international “Space Science Award” from the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). “The COSPAR Award
honors a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to space science.” Click for more information.

Nobel Laureate Adam Riess Named 22nd Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Nobel Laureate Adam Riess Named 22nd Bloomberg Distinguished Professor

Prof. Adam Riess, an internationally renowned observational cosmologist working on the measurement of the expansion of the universe and a recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics, has been […]

Dominika Wylezalek Awarded the 2017 JHU Provost’s Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship

Dominika Wylezalek Awarded the 2017 JHU Provost’s Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek has been awarded the 2017 JHU Provost’s Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship. This will enable her to continue her exciting work on feedback from supermassive black holes with Prof. […]

David Kaplan’s Particle Fever Receives Hawking Medal for Science Communication

David Kaplan’s Particle Fever Receives Hawking Medal for Science Communication

The documentary Particle Fever, which Professor David Kaplan produced, is among the inaugural recipients of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication. In collaboration with the Starmus Festival, Stephen Hawking personally selected the awardees for “outstanding contributions in the articulation and portrayal of science to the public, within the three categories of science, art, and film.” Learn more about the award here.

Eight Scientists Offer Hypothesis about Black Hole Binary Detected by LIGO

Eight Scientists Offer Hypothesis about Black Hole Binary Detected by LIGO

In an new article published in Physical Review Letters , eight scientists within the department suggest a plausibility argument for an abiding mystery in astrophysics. Did the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave […]