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Nadia Zakamska Receives Krieger School’s Excellence in Teaching Award

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Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska has received the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences 2020-21 Excellence in Teaching Award. The award was based on nominations from students, alumni, faculty, and staff […]


Remembering Jan V. Vandenberg

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Jan Vincent Vandenberg, a Johns Hopkins University computer scientist and systems architect who made astronomical images accessible to the public and helped catapult citizen science forward, passed away on May […]


Sloan Digital Sky Survey Given the 2021 SIGMOD Systems Award

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Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named a team of Sloan Digital Sky Survey members the recipients of the 2021 SIGMOD Systems […]


Marc Kamionkowski Receives 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize

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William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Marc Kamionkowski has been awarded the 2021 Gruber Cosmology Prize, along with Uroš Seljak of the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National […]


‘Hubble Sees Double’

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JHU’s Hub highlights the research of graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska.


“Mapping Cancer as if it were the Universe,” Alex Szalay Featured in The Economist

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Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Alex Szalay is featured in this article from The Economist, “Cancer research – Mapping cancer as if it were the universe,” on how techniques from astronomy are […]


Turner Woody Receives 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award

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The department is pleased to announce physics major Turner Woody as recipient of the 2021 Donald E. Kerr Memorial Award.  The Kerr Award, established in 1979, acknowledges outstanding graduating physics […]


Justin Otter, Bastian Pradenas, Isu Ravi, Sanjana Sekhar, and Nicholas Speeney Receive Graduate Teaching Awards

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The Graduate Program Committee is pleased to announce their selection of the most outstanding graduate student Teaching Assistants in the department with their annual graduate teaching awards. Justin Otter is […]


Erwin Tanin Receives International Student Prize Fellowship

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Second year graduate student Erwin Tanin has been awarded an International Student Prize Fellowship by the department. Tanin is working in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology with David Kaplan and Surjeet […]


Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Nadia Zakamska’s publication unveils discovery in the Distant Universe

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Graduate student Hsiang-Chih Hwang and Associate Professor Nadia Zakamska are part of the research team that has published an article in Nature Astronomy titled “A hidden population of high-redshift double […]