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 […]
News & Announcements Archive
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”
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Adam Riess Leads study demonstrating Universe is expanding faster than thought
The universe appears to be expanding faster now than predicted, according to measurements of the expansion rate as seen shortly after the Big Bang, revealed in a study led by […]
Rosemary F. G. Wyse Awarded Brouwer Award by Division on Dynamical Astronomy
Professor Rosie Wyse has been awarded the 2016 Brouwer Award by the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society for her fundamental role in advancing our understanding of […]
High-powered CLASS Telescope Receives ‘First Light’
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Charles Bennett, Assistant Professor Tobias Marriage, and scores of other Johns Hopkins scientists, have started analyzing data from 13.8 billion-year-old radiation. Click here to read more about […]