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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 […]

Rosemary Wyse Writes Autobiographical Chapter in “The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words”

Rosemary Wyse Writes Autobiographical Chapter in “The Sky is for Everyone: Women Astronomers in Their Own Words”

Alumni Centennial Professor Rosemary Wyse has joined an assemblage of influential women astronomers by writing an autobiographical chapter in “The Sky is for Everyone: Woman Astronomers in Their Own Words.” […]

Vishal Baibhav Receives Ehlers Thesis Prize from the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation

Vishal Baibhav Receives Ehlers Thesis Prize from the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation

Vishal Baibhav, who received his PhD from the department working with Emanuele Berti, has received the Ehlers Theseis Prize for best PhD thesis. The prize was awarded by the International […]