Alexander Szalay, P&A faculty member and the founding director of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, has been named a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor. Szalay is also a professor […]
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Joseph Silk’s featured on NPR
Prof. Joseph Silk and physicist George Ellis have sparked a debate about whether or not string theory and multiverses should be exempt from experimental testing. Read more on National Public […]
Jared Kaplan Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Jared Kaplan has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The award helps to fund research in Conformal Field Theory – quantum theories that combine special […]
Marc Kamionkowski Receives Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Prof. Marc Kamionkowski has been named one of two winners of the 2015 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics. Kamionkowski and David Spergel of Princeton University, were honored “for their outstanding […]
JHU Astrophysicists Unveil Map of Mysterious Molecules in the Milky Way
Professor Ménard, Postdoctoral Fellow Gail Zasowski, Ph.D. student Ting-Wen Lan, and other JHU astrophysicists have unveiled a new map of mysterious molecules in our galaxy using data from the Sloan […]
Particle Fever Wins Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award in Journalism
Professor David E. Kaplan and the entire cast and crew involved with the production of Particle Fever were given the 2015 duPont-Columbia award for producing the documentary about the identification […]
David Kaplan Named Fellow of the American Physical Society
Professor David E. Kaplan has been named a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His citation with the APS is as follows: “For contributions to models for new physics beyond […]
Adam Riess shares Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Prof. Adam Riess is a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. Riess shares the $3M award […]
A Hopkins-lead Study Finds a New Way to Employ the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich Effect
Prof. Tobias Marriage and Megan Gralla have found that the Sunyaev–Zel’dovich effect – typically used to study large galaxy clusters – can also be used to learn about why galaxies […]
Brice Ménard Awarded 2014 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
Prof. Brice Ménard is the recipient of a 2014 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Joining 17 other early-career scientists, Prof. Ménard will receive a grant of $875,000 from the […]