Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876
America’s First Research University
With its world-renowned faculty and state-of-the-art facilities, the William H. Miller III Department of Physics and Astronomy combines the best aspects of a top research university with the more intimate learning environment typical of small liberal arts colleges.
Graduate students have flexibility in choosing their course of research and designing their path through the program.
Whether your interest is in astronomy, condensed matter, particle physics, or plasma spectroscopy, you'll find state-of-the-art tools at your disposal.
Students have the opportunity to work with experts in a wide range of fields, even as undergraduates.
Physics major Jake Hoffmann has received the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research. The award is designed to support and encourage Hopkins undergraduate students […]
In early 2025, the JHU-led Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) project announced a first-of-its-kind measurement of the so-called “optical depth to reionization,” the probability that a photon from the cosmic microwave […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $625 million in funding to renew its five National Quantum Information Science (QIS) Research Centers, originally established in 2018 under the National […]