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Wonder Bound collaboration between JHU, STScI and the Vatican Observatory celebrates space images

Wonder Bound collaboration between JHU, STScI and the Vatican Observatory celebrates space images

Provost and Professor Ray Jayawardhana, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor and Nobel laureate Adam Riess, Professor Rosemary F. G. Wyse, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Sabine Stanley, Research Scientist Massimo Robberto, and Bloomberg Distinguished […]

Research by JHU physicists highlighted by Nature press release, “Quantifying a Quirky Quark Quartet”

Research by JHU physicists highlighted by Nature press release, “Quantifying a Quirky Quark Quartet”

Professor Andrei Gritsan, graduate students Zhiyuan Huang and Mohit Srivastav, and postdoctoral fellow Jeffrey Davis are key contributors to the recent Nature publication, “Determination of the Spin and Parity of […]

Jared Kaplan featured in The Guardian’s “The Biggest Decision Yet: Allowing AI to Train Itself”

Jared Kaplan featured in The Guardian’s “The Biggest Decision Yet: Allowing AI to Train Itself”

Associate Professor Jared Kaplan is the focus of a new article in The Guardian titled “The Biggest Decision Yet: Allowing AI to Train Itself.” Kaplan is chief scientist and co-owner […]

Jake Hoffmann Receives Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

Jake Hoffmann Receives Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

Physics major Jake Hoffmann has received the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research. The award is designed to support and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students […]

Good News from the JHU-led Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor Project

Good News from the JHU-led Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor Project

In early 2025, the JHU-led Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) project announced a first-of-its-kind measurement of the so-called “optical depth to reionization,” the probability that a photon from the cosmic microwave […]

Tyrel McQueen and Surjeet Rajendran to continue with Quantum Information Science Research Centers

Tyrel McQueen and Surjeet Rajendran to continue with Quantum Information Science Research Centers

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $625 million in funding to renew its five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers, originally established in 2018 under the National […]

International team co-led by Adam Riess to investigate the validity of the cosmological model

International team co-led by Adam Riess to investigate the validity of the cosmological model

Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Adam Riess is one of four co-investigators now working on a European Research Council Synergy Grant entitled “Red teaming the H0 tension,” or “RedH0T,” to support international […]

Grayson Frazier receives Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Graduate Fellowship

Grayson Frazier receives Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Graduate Fellowship

Graduate student Grayson Frazier has received the highly competitive KITP Graduate Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding research work in condensed matter theory. At KITP, Grayson plans to continue pursuing his […]

Joe Silk co-authors research about the cause of the gamma ray glow at the center of our galaxy

Joe Silk co-authors research about the cause of the gamma ray glow at the center of our galaxy

Research Professor and Homewood Professor of Physics and Astronomy Joe Silk is the co-author of a new publication in the journal Physical Review Letters about the cause of the glow […]

Qier An co-authors publication identifying a brown dwarf orbiting a red dwarf

Qier An co-authors publication identifying a brown dwarf orbiting a red dwarf

Graduate student Qier An recently contributed to new research published in The Astronomical Journal that identified a brown dwarf orbiting a red dwarf through the synergy of ground- and space-based […]