Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska has received the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 2020-21 Excellence in Teaching Award. The award was based on nominations from students, alumni, faculty, and staff who highlighted Dr. Zakamska’s continued ability to engage and inspire students, build community, and foster relationships outside of the classroom. Below are two quotes from […]
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Astrophysics, Awards
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Arts & Sciences Magazine: Beyond Our Solar System, Exoplanets 101
Faculty from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, including Bloomberg Distinguished Professor David Sing, who is also a member of the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and P&A Assistant Professor Kevin Schlaufman, explain how planets outside of our solar system are created and discovered—and whether life might exist on them.
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Remembering Jan V. Vandenberg
Jan Vincent Vandenberg, a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist and systems architect who made astronomical images accessible to the public and helped catapult citizen science forward, passed away on May 13, 2021.
Astrophysics, Awards
Sloan Digital Sky Survey Given the 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award
Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named a team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey members the recipients of the 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award. The citation reads “…Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an early and influential demonstration of the power of data science to transform a scientific domain. Not […]
Astrophysics, Awards
Marc Kamionkowski Receives 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski has been awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize, along with Uroš Seljak of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Matias Zaldarriaga of the Institute for Advanced Studies, for their contributions to methods essential for studying the early universe through analysis of the […]
Astrophysics, Graduate
‘Hubble Sees Double’
JHU’s Hub highlights the research of graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska.
Astrophysics
“Mapping Cancer as if it were the Universe,” Alex Szalay Featured in The Economist
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alex Szalay is featured in this article from The Economist, “Cancer research – Mapping cancer as if it were the universe,” on how techniques from astronomy are being applied to medicine.
Awards, Undergraduate
Turner Woody Receives 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award
The department is pleased to announce physics major Turner Woody as recipient of the 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award. The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges outstanding graduating physics majors who have distinguished themselves through their performance in the classroom, their accomplishments in research, and their other positive contributions to the department. Congratulations, Turner!
Awards, Graduate
Justin Otter, Bastian Pradenas, Isu Ravi, Sanjana Sekhar, and Nicholas Speeney Receive Graduate Teaching Awards
The Graduate Program Committee is pleased to announce their selection of the most outstanding graduate student Teaching Assistants in the department with their annual graduate teaching awards. Justin Otter is awarded the Agnew Prize for Excellence in Teaching for his fall 2020 performance in introductory physics, where he prioritizes students’ success and clear communication and […]
Awards, Graduate
Erwin Tanin Receives International Student Prize Fellowship
Second year graduate student Erwin Tanin has been awarded an International Student Prize Fellowship by the department. Tanin is working in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology with David Kaplan and Surjeet Rajendran, and has published two papers during his time at JHU. Currently, Tanin is focusing on theoretical ideas for dark energy. Furthermore, Tanin has also […]