News & Announcements Archive

Chairman Yarkony Receives 2019 Herschbach Medal in Theory Award

Chairman Yarkony Receives 2019 Herschbach Medal in Theory Award

The Herschbach medal is presented at the Dynamics of Molecular Colllisions meeting which has been held biennially for the last 54 years.  At this meeting medals in theoretical and experimental […]

Congratulations to Avery Baumann for receiving the ARCS Graduate Scholar Award

Congratulations to Avery Baumann for receiving the ARCS Graduate Scholar Award

Avery Baumann (Thoi Group) is named as one of three JHU recipients as an ARCS Graduate Scholar. She is recognized for her outstanding academic and research accomplishments.

Dara Weiss and Tylar Clark-Winters Awarded 2019 NSF GRFP

Dara Weiss and Tylar Clark-Winters Awarded 2019 NSF GRFP

The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. The program […]

Prof. Fried Awarded Human Frontiers in Science Program (HFSP) Grant

Prof. Fried Awarded Human Frontiers in Science Program (HFSP) Grant

Stephen Fried has just won a $1 million dollar grant from the Human Frontiers in Science Program (HFSP) to investigate the very question of how amino acids make life possible […]

Vinayak Khodade Publishes Communication in JACS

Vinayak Khodade Publishes Communication in JACS

Congratulations to Dr. Vinayak Khodade (post-doc, Toscano Lab), who recently published a communication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society entitled “Development of S‑Substituted Thioisothioureas as Efficient Hydropersulfide Precursors.”

Prof. Thomas Kempa Receives NSF CAREER Award

Prof. Thomas Kempa Receives NSF CAREER Award

Congratulations to Prof. Kempa for receiving the NSF CAREER award! The NSF’s most prestigious award, the CAREER provides 5 years of funding to support the research and educational goals of […]

Klausen Receives Associate Professorship

Klausen Receives Associate Professorship

The Second Decade Society (SDS) is the alumni leadership development organization for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. The society’s membership is composed of 100 undergraduate alumni who are […]

Mayukh Bhadra and Shane Byrne Receive Dean’s Teaching Fellowship

Mayukh Bhadra and Shane Byrne Receive Dean’s Teaching Fellowship

Congratulations to Mayukh Bhadra (Karlin Lab) and Shane Byrne (Rokita Lab) for receiving the JHU Dean’s Teaching Fellowship!  The fellowship will provide funding for teaching undergraduate courses in the 2019-2020 […]

Kun Yang Article Highlighted in C&EN News

Kun Yang Article Highlighted in C&EN News

Congratulations to Kun Yang of the Greenberg group on his publication in PNAS entitled “Histone Tails Decrease N7-Methyl-2′-Deoxyguanosine Depurination and Yield DNA–Protein Cross-links in Nucleosome Core Particles and Cells” that […]

Thoi group sweeps up prizes at the 2018 Young Researcher Conference

Thoi group sweeps up prizes at the 2018 Young Researcher Conference

Congratulations to Sam Goldschmid and Avery Baumann for winning the Best Poster Award and Best Speaker Award, respectively, at the Young Researcher Conference hosted by Alliance for Diversity for Science […]