Johns Hopkins UniversityEST. 1876

America’s First Research University

News & Announcements Archive

EPS alumna Xinting Yu awarded Urey Prize for outstanding achievements in planetary science

Former EPS graduate student Dr. Xinting Yu has been awarded the Harold C. Urey prize for outstanding achievements in planetary science by an early-career scientist. The Urey prize is awarded […]

Graduate student Cara Pesciotta awarded prestigious NASA FINESST fellowship

Graduate student Cara Pesciotta has won the prestigious Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship. Cara’s research project, titled “Prebiotic Chemistry in Exoplanet Atmospheres: Composition […]

Flourishing in Extremes

Flourishing in Extremes

Biologist Jocelyne DiRuggiero and her graduate and undergraduate students study microorganism communities that could hold keys to how early life developed and how their evolution could help humans survive on other planets.

EPS graduate students Caroline Newell and Nathan Otto awarded prestigious NSF GRFP

Two E&PS PhD students, 1st year student Caroline Newell and incoming student Nathan Otto, received awards from the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The prestigious fellowship is awarded to promising young […]

2025 Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium to be held in the EPS Department at Johns Hopkins University

2025 Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium to be held in the EPS Department at Johns Hopkins University

The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University will host the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Geobiology Symposium on February 28, 2025. The goal of this one-day symposium is to […]

A Down-to-Earth Primer on the Planets

A Down-to-Earth Primer on the Planets

Professor Sabine Stanley’s first book, What’s Hidden Inside Planets?, is an easy-reading primer on the rocks, gases, and ice that comprise the centers of the planets and moons in the […]

Professor Julie Lundquist on big-picture problems

Professor Julie Lundquist on big-picture problems

Julie Lundquist, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Wind Energy, was featured in the Fall 2024 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.

Benjamin Fernando wins Faculty Prize

Advanced Research Computing at Hopkins (ARCH) announced the 2024 Mark O. Robbins Prize recipients in high-performance computing. Benjamin Fernando was one of the Future faculty award recipients. Fernando holds a […]

EPS featured in Arts and Sciences Magazine

EPS featured in Arts and Sciences Magazine

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences writer Rachel Wallach offers a firsthand exploration of First-Year Seminar courses, which cover a range of topics that inspire new college students

Why JHU Students Love Earth and Planetary Sciences

Why JHU Students Love Earth and Planetary Sciences

EPS students tell Arts and Sciences Magazine what they love about their majors.