Department News

Alexis Li Receives Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award

Alexis Li Receives Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award
Physics major Alexis Li has received the Provost’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from the Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research in recognition of her outstanding undergraduate research titled “A JWST Mid-Infrared View on the Debris Disk around Eta Corvi: A New Insight on Time Variability.”

Michael Falk Receives the American Physical Society’s 2024 Five Sigma Physicist Award

Michael Falk Receives the American Physical Society’s 2024 Five Sigma Physicist Award
Professor and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education within the Whiting School of Engineering, Michael Falk, has received the Five Sigma Physicist Award from APS. The award recognizes APS members who perform outstanding volunteer advocacy work to help advance APS’s science policy priorities. Recipients demonstrate impactful advocacy actions with APS Government Affairs throughout the year.

Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Graduate students Mitchell Karmen and Stephen Schmidt have been awarded Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who have demonstrated the potential to be high achieving scientists early in their careers.