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Yahui Zhang Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

March 17, 2023December 28, 2023

Assistant Professor Yahui Zhang has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal titled “Superconductivity, fractionalization and quantum criticality in multilayer quantum simulator.” The NSF CAREER Awards are given in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through research and education, and the integration of these endeavors in the context of their organizations’ missions. The awards, presented once each year, include a federal grant for research and education activities for five consecutive years.

Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung and Collaborators Publish Simulations That Show Aftermath of Black Hole Collisions

February 24, 2023March 7, 2023

Graduate student Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung is the lead author and Postdoctoral Fellow Thomas Helfer, Professor Emanuele Berti, Postdoctoral Fellow Roberto Cotesta and two former Hopkins Ph.D. Students (Kaze Wong and Vishal Baibhav) are co-authors of a Physical Review Letters publication.

Nadia Zakamska Named President’s Frontier Award Finalist

February 14, 2023March 7, 2023

The President’s Frontier Award Program, created to support and celebrate mid-career faculty at JHU, will award Zakamska with $80,000 to support her ongoing research efforts. Zakamska is among only three other awardees this year.

Ethan Vishniac Named Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

February 1, 2023February 1, 2023

Research professor Ethan Vishniac is among the newest class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, or AAAS, the world’s largest general scientific society. He is recognized by the AAAS for advancing our understanding of magnetic fields that shape the cosmos on multiple scales, and for his distinguished service to the scientific community as a journal editor.

Space@Hopkins 2023: Call for Seed Grant proposals

January 27, 2023February 7, 2023

The 2023 Space@Hopkins Seed Grant program, with grants of up to $25,000 for one year, is now open for proposals for space-related projects. Topics of the proposed projects may include, but are not limited to, robotics, astronaut health, planetary sciences, solar physics, Earth science, spacecraft engineering, sensors, and astrophysics. Civilian space-related proposals are welcome from all Johns Hopkins divisions.