Johns Hopkins University chemist Tyrel McQueen has been awarded a 2012 David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering. The fellowship is one of 16 awarded each year nationwide, and […]
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Awards, Uncategorized
Astrophysics
Astronomers Spy Distant Galaxy in Its Infancy
Discovery of a small, faint galaxy opens window into deepest, most remote epochs of cosmic history. With the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes as well as […]
Condensed Matter, Uncategorized
In Memoriam: Dr. Zlatko Tesanovic
It is with great sadness that we report that Professor Zlatko Tesanovic passed away on July 26, 2012, of an apparent heart attack. A leading theoretical condensed matter physicist, Zlatko’s work primarily […]
Astrophysics, Awards
2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize Awarded to Chuck Bennett and the WMAP Team
Building on his own pioneering contributions to the study of the early universe,Charles L. Bennett, along with the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe team, used observations of the so-called “echo of […]
Astrophysics
JHU Astrophysicist-led Team Catches Black Hole Red-Handed in Stellar Homicide
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. Supermassive black holes, weighing millions to billions times more than […]
Awards, Undergraduate
2012 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award (DURA) Winners
The Dean’s Undergraduate Research Awards (DURA) are designed to promote independent research projects among exceptional undergraduate students in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. These awards, which range from […]
Astrophysics
Johns Hopkins-Led WMAP Mission Scores World’s Most Cited Science Publications in 2011
Thomson Reuters’ Science Watch announced on April 11 that all three of the most highly cited scientific papers in the world published in 2011 were from an astrophysics space mission project […]
Awards, Condensed Matter
Mark Robbins Honored With Simons Fellowship
Mark Robbins, a theoretical physicist and professor in the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins […]
Astrophysics, Awards
Adam Riess Wins the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Congratulations to our own Adam Riess, awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences! Adam Riess, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in Physics and Astronomy and […]