Assistant Professor Danielle Speller received honorable mention from the American Institute of Physics and the National Society of Black Physicists in recognition of her scientific ingenuity and impactful mentorship and service during the awarding the Joseph A. Johnson Award for Excellence.
Physics major Grace Luettgen was recently awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship. The scholarship, named in honor of late Senator and Major General Barry Goldwater, supports college sophomores and juniors pursuing research careers in engineering, mathematics, and the natural sciences. Luettgen is being recognized for her work in the field of biophysics.
Suvi Gezari, previously a Hubble Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, has been appointed as Research Professor in Physics & Astronomy in the department. Dr. Gezari also holds an appointment as […]
Research Professor Bill Blair answered questions from The Hub about the solar eclipse that will occur during the afternoon of April 8th.
Associate Research Scientist Joseph Eimer spoke with Sheilah Kast for “On the Record” on WYPR about the publication he was the lead author of titled “CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022.”
Associate Research Scientist Joseph Eimer, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Chuck Bennett, and Professor Toby Marriage have published maps of the sky in The Astrophysical Journal that help to explain the formation and evolution of the universe. The team employed the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, or CLASS, telescope, a collaboration led by JHU.
Assistant Professor Yahui Zhang has been named a Sloan Research Fellow. Zhang is among 126 early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Each recipient receives $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.
Research Scientist Suvi Gezari has been named Science Lead for the Dynamic Universe on NASA’s UVEX (UltraViolet EXplorer) space telescope mission. UVEX is NASA’s next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission and is scheduled to launch in 2030. It will survey ultraviolet light across the entire sky to provide more insight into galaxies near and far, localize gravitational wave events, characterize supernovae within hours of explosion, and provide a legacy data archive for the science community.
A recent publication in Physics Review Letters by Postdoctoral Fellow Nashwan Sabati, Julian Muñoz, and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski about ultramassive galaxies in the early universe is now the subject of a American Physical Society news feature and commentary titled “JWST Sees More Galaxies than Expected.”
Principal Research Scientist David Thilker and the team comprising the PHANGS (PHysics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS) HST+JWST program at STScI have released a new video of 19 nearby disk galaxies that show stars, gas, and dust on small scales. The video contrasts the starkly different appearance of spiral galaxies in ultraviolet-to-visible light from HST and in near- and mid-infrared light from JWST. The new data from JWST are revolutionizing our understanding of galaxies (in particular their dusty substructure and sites of star formation) but can only be fully interpreted with help from the aging Hubble. This fact underscores the need for realization of a future large UV-visible-NIR telescope such as the Habitable Worlds Observatory concept now under study by NASA.