Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
The Johns Hopkins Club is opening its new Nobel Room, dedicated to the 36 Johns Hopkins university faculty members, graduates and other affiliates who have won Nobel Prizes.
October 20, 2015 Tags: Adam Riess, Carol Greider, Johns Hopkins Club, Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Woodrow Wilson
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Medicine and Nursing, Physics and Astronomy
Adam Riess, a professor of physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University and a Nobel laureate, has been named a recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for the discovery of the acceleration of the universe. Riess received the award, the most lucrative academic prize in the world, at a ceremony in California on Sunday.
November 10, 2014 Tags: acceleration of the universe, Adam Riess, astronomy, Breakthrough Prize, dark energy, physics
| Category: Natural Sciences, Physics and Astronomy
A team of astronomers at The Johns Hopkins University has used data gathered by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to spot a supernova that exploded more than 10 billion years ago, breaking the previous record by roughly 350 million years. Nicknamed in a nod to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States and a Johns Hopkins alumnus, “SN Wilson” now stands as the farthest known supernova of the type used to measure cosmic distances.
April 4, 2013 Tags: Adam Riess, David O. Jones, SN Wilson, Steve Rodney, supernova, Type Ia supernovae
| Category: Physics and Astronomy
The Gruber Foundation announced today that the 2012 Cosmology Prize will be awarded to Johns Hopkins University professor Charles L. Bennett and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) space mission science team that he led. Bennett and the WMAP team are being recognized by the foundation for their transformative study of an ancient light dating back to the infant universe. So precise and accurate are the WMAP results that they form the foundation of the Standard Cosmological Model.
June 20, 2012 Tags: 2012 Cosmology Prize, Adam Riess, Big Bang, Charles L. Bennett, Chuck Bennett, Draper Prize, Gruber Foundation, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, origins of the universe, the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
The Maryland Space Grant Observatory and Johns Hopkins University are inviting star gazers of every experience level to an event that not only will allow them to view the transit, but also to learn more about it, beginning at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 5 at the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, 3799 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, 21218.
June 4, 2012 Tags: Adam Riess, astrophysics, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, cosmology, Maryland Space Grant Consortium, Peter McCullough, Space Telescope Science Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, Venus transit
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Events Open to the Public, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
A team of Johns Hopkins astrophysicists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has detected a distant Type Ia supernova, the farthest stellar explosion that can be used to measure the expansion rate of the universe. The supernova is the remnant of a star that exploded 9 billion years ago.
January 11, 2012 Tags: Adam Riess, astronomy, astrophysics, Hubble Space Telescope, Space Telescope Science Institute, supernovae
| Category: Physics and Astronomy, Technology
Adam Riess, a professor in physics and astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University and a research scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, today accepted the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences during a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.
December 10, 2011 Tags: accelerating universe, Adam G. Riess, Adam Riess, dark energy, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Physics, Space Telescope Science Institute, supernovae, The Johns Hopkins University, the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
President Ronald J. Daniels sent a broadcast email message to students, faculty and staff at The Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, Oct. 4, congratulating Professor Adam G. Riess, the just-announced co-winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. This is the text of that message.
October 4, 2011 Tags: Adam Riess, Nobel Prize, Ronald J. Daniels
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Uncategorized, University-Related
Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute, today was awarded the Einstein Medal 2011 by the Albert Einstein Society of Bern, Switzerland. The society board of trustees recognized Riess for leadership in the High-z Supernova Search Team’s 1998 discovery that the expansion rate of the universe is accelerating, a phenomenon widely attributed to a mysterious, unexplained “dark energy” filling the universe. Riess, 41, shares this year’s prize with Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, whose Supernova Cosmology Project team published similar results shortly after those published by Riess and High-z teammate Brian Schmidt, of the Australian National University.
February 18, 2011 Tags: Adam Riess, Australian National Laboratory, Bern, dark energy, Einstein Medal, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, High-z Supernova Search Team, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Peter Gruber Foundation, Saul Perlmutter, Shaw Prize, Space Telescope Science Institute, Supernova Cosmology Project, The Albert Einstein Society, The Johns Hopkins University, University of California Berkeley
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Institutional News, Physics and Astronomy
A report released by the National Academy of Sciences names several projects involving astronomers and astrophysicists at The Johns Hopkins University as among the most important astrophysics investments in the next decade. Titled “New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics,” the recently issued report represents the consensus position of hundreds of astronomers and astrophysicists nationwide who participated in the process of prioritizing projects.
August 27, 2010 Tags: " Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope, "New Worlds, Adam Riess, Alexander Szalay, Charles L. Bennett, Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor, Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Instrument Development Group, James Webb Space Telescope, JDEM, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins' Institute for Data-Intensive Engineering and Science, Joint Dark Energy Mission, Katherine S. Newman, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, National Academy of Sciences, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pan-STARRS, Shaw Prize, Warren Moos, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Engineering, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, Technology, University-Related
