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Johns Hopkins’s Other Engineering Lab: The Voodoo Drop at Six Flags

Johns Hopkins’s Other Engineering Lab: The Voodoo Drop at Six Flags

The Washington Post shadowed Reid Mumford and his physics lab as they gathered data on amusement-park rides.

Andrey Vayner, Nadia Zakamska, and Yuzo Ishikawa Discover Swarm of Galaxies Using James Webb Space Telescope

Andrey Vayner, Nadia Zakamska, and Yuzo Ishikawa Discover Swarm of Galaxies Using James Webb Space Telescope

Postdoctoral fellow Andrey Vayner, Professor Nadia Zakamska and graduate student Yuzo Ishikawa are part of an international team who just published the first results from an Early Release Science program […]

Maryam Haytham Esmat Featured in the Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30 List

Maryam Haytham Esmat Featured in the Forbes Middle East 30 Under 30 List

Graduate student Maryam Haytham Esmat has been chosen to be part of the Forbes Magazine Middle East “30 Under 30” list. Esmat has interned at the Space Telescope Science Institute, […]

Danielle Speller Receives 2022 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Danielle Speller Receives 2022 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering

Assistant Professor Danielle Speller has received a 2022 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Speller is one of a small group of innovative […]

Emanuele Berti Receives 2023 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science

Emanuele Berti Receives 2023 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science

Emanuele Berti has received the 2023 Richard A. Isaacson Award in Gravitational-Wave Science from the American Physical Society. Dr. Berti is being recognized “for contributions to gravitational-wave science through groundbreaking […]

Jami Valentine Miller Receives 2022 JHU Distinguished Alumna Award

Jami Valentine Miller Receives 2022 JHU Distinguished Alumna Award

Jami Valentine Miller, who earned her PhD in the department in 2007 working with Chia Ling Chien, has received the 2022 JHU Distinguished Alumna Award.  After successfully defending her dissertation, […]

Honoring Mark O. Robbins – Sunday, October 2, 2022, 9 AM

Honoring Mark O. Robbins – Sunday, October 2, 2022, 9 AM

Please join us in honoring the memory of Mark O. Robbins by illuminating his contributions to science. Sunday, October 2, 2022, 9 AM, Schafler Auditorium. Brunch will be served at […]

Arshia Jacob Receives Otto Hahn Award From the Max Planck Institute

Arshia Jacob Receives Otto Hahn Award From the Max Planck Institute

Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Arshia Jacob has received the Otto Hahn Award from the Max Planck Society.  Arshia, who has been working with Prof. David Neufeld, is being recognized for her […]

Mark Ho Yeuk Cheung Receives Croucher Fellowship from Hong Kong

Mark Ho Yeuk Cheung Receives Croucher Fellowship from Hong Kong

Graduate student Mark Ho Yeuk Cheung has received a very competitive Croucher Fellowship from Hong Kong. The fellowship helps Hong Kong students pursue a PhD and supports the early stages of their […]

Kaze Wong Receives Gravitational Wave International Committee-Braccini Prize for PhD Thesis

Kaze Wong Receives Gravitational Wave International Committee-Braccini Prize for PhD Thesis

Kaze Wong, who received his PhD from the department working with Emanuele Berti, has received the Gravitational Wave International Committee-Braccini Prize in recognition of his PhD thesis titled “Building new […]