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
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Chia-Ling Chien, the Jacob L. Hain Professor of Physics and the Director of the Material Research Science and Engineering Center at The Johns Hopkins University, is a winner of the first-ever Asian Union of Magnetic Societies Award, recognizing his “seminal contribution to magnetic materials, nanostructures, magnetoelectronic phenomena and devices.”
October 31, 2012 Tags: AAAS, American Physical Society, Asian Union of Magnetic Societies, Carnegie-Mellon University, Chia-Ling Chien, China, Daniel Reich, Fudan University, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, IEEE, Lanzhou University, magnetic materials, magnetoelectric phenomena, Material Research Science and Engineering Center, Nanjing University, nanostructures, The Johns Hopkins University
| Category: Academic Disciplines, Homewood Campus News, Physics and Astronomy, University-Related
All three of the most highly cited scientific papers in the world published in 2011 were from an astrophysics space mission project led by a Johns Hopkins University scientist, according to Thomson Reuters’ Science Watch. The papers cite results from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), a NASA spacecraft launched in 2001 that has revolutionized our knowledge of the history, composition, and geometry of the universe. The WMAP mission is led by Charles L. Bennett, Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Johns Hopkins Gilman Scholar
April 16, 2012 Tags: astrophysics, Charles L. Bennett, COBE, Comstock Prize in physics, Cosmic Background Explorer, Daniel Reich, Goddard Space Flight Center, Harvey Prize, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Henry Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, John Mather, Johns Hopkins University, NASA, Peter Gruber Foundation, Science Watch, Shaw Prize, Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, WMAP
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A Johns Hopkins University theoretical physicist has been awarded a Simons Fellowship in Physics, which provides scholars with the opportunity to spend a year away from classroom and administrative duties in order to pursue research interests. Mark Robbins, a professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, is among 27 theoretical physicists to receive this highly competitive, honorific fellowship.
March 13, 2012 Tags: Daniel Reich, Eindhoven University of Technology, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mark Robbins, New York University, Simons Fellowship in Physics, The Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, theoretical physicist, University of Pennsylvania
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Astrophysicist Brice Ménard of The Johns Hopkins has won a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship to further support his research on extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology.
February 15, 2012 Tags: Brice Ménard, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, cosmology, Daniel Reich, dark matter, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institut d'Astrophysiqu de Paris, Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, intergalactic space, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Max Planck Institute, N. J., Paul L. Joskow, Sloan Research Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, Tokyo University
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Marc Kamionkowski, considered one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists for his work in large-scale structures and the early history of the universe, will join the faculty in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences on July 1. An endowed professor at California Institute of Technology, Kamionkowski has spent much of his career researching astrophysics, cosmology and elementary particle theory.
June 27, 2011 Tags: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, American Astronomical Society, American Physical Society, astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, Caltech, Daniel Reich, galaxy formation, gravitational lensing, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Marc Kamionkowski, particle dark matter, phase transitions in the early universe, stellar astrophysics, the epoch of reionization, The Johns Hopkins University, The Robinson Professor of Theoretical Physics
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Nadia L. Zakamska of the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at The Johns Hopkins University has received a Sloan Research Fellowship to continue her research, which uses Earth and space-based telescopes and large data sets to answer important questions about the universe and its origins. Administered by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowship recognizes early-career scientists and scholars with two-year $50,000 grants aimed at helping them establish their laboratories and advance their research. Zakamska, 31, was one of 118 young scientists or economists to receive the awards this year, in recognition of their potential to contribute to academic advancement. Since the Sloan Foundation began awarding fellowships in 1955, 38 have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers.
February 15, 2011 Tags: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Daniel Reich, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, John N. Bahcall fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Nadia L. Zakamska, NASA Spitzer Fellowship, Princeton University, Sloan Researcgh Fellowship, Stanford University
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Associate research scientist Natalia Drichko, 38, was selected as a recipient of the American Physical Society’s 2010 M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship. A career re-entry grant of up to $45,000, the scholarship—given each year to between one and three deserving physicists—supports early career female physicists whose professional life has been interrupted for family or other personal reasons.
November 1, 2010 Tags: American Physical Society, CERN, Daniel Reich, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Janice Wynn Guikema, Johns Hopkins Institute for Quantum Matter, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, M. Hildred Blewett, M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship, Natalia Drichko, women in physics
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NASA astronaut John Grunsfeld has walked in space eight times and logged more than 800 hours floating in that deep, dark void over the course of five space flights, including three to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Now, he is about to explore a new frontier: The Johns Hopkins University. On July 1, the man nicknamed “the Hubble Repairman” became a research professor in the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. While at Johns Hopkins, Grunsfeld, who is deputy director at the nearby Space Telescope Science Institute, will continue his research in astrophysics and the development of new technology and systems for space astronomy.
July 8, 2010 Tags: Adler Planetarium, astronaut, Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy, Car Talk, Daniel Reich, Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Johnson Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Mir Space Station, Mount McKinley, NASA, National Public Radio, NOVA, PBS, space shuttle, Space Telescope Science Institute, Third Small Astronomy Satellite
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