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David DeMille, an atomic, molecular, and optical physicist, recently joined Johns Hopkins as the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Atomic/Molecular Physics and Precision Measurement. He has appointments in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and in the Research and Exploratory Development Department of the Applied Physics Laboratory. He is also a member of the BDP cluster Hub for Imaging and Quantum Technologies. DeMille comes to Hopkins from the University of Chicago. He is known for his work in the field of experimental physics, where he developed novel methods of precision measurement to probe for the existence of new particles and forces that exist outside the standard model of particle physics.

Dawn Teele, an associate professor in the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and a professor in the Krieger School's Political Science Department who studies gender and politics, has been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow for 2025. The 26 scholars selected this year will each receive $200,000 for research aimed at understanding political polarization in the United States. Teele plans to determine whether political institutions and systems exacerbate the gender gap.

Two Johns Hopkins assistant professors in the Krieger School, chemist Xiongyi Huang and biophysicist Yaojun "Jun" Zhang, are among the 126 scholars who have been named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. These two-year, $75,000 fellowships are awarded to early-career scientists in the U.S. and Canada who show strong potential to be leaders in the fields of chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, or physics. Huang has an appointment in the Department of Chemistry and is studying what he describes as "a fundamental challenge in protein engineering and biosynthesis": enabling natural enzymes to catalyze synthetic reactions. Zhang holds a joint appointment in the departments of Biophysics and of Physics and Astronomy, where she conducts theoretical and computational research to understand the behavior of biomolecules and their assemblies across scales.

Materials scientist Dingchang Lin and mathematician Ziquan Zhuang have each received a 2024 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, an award that provides the nation's most promising early-career scientists and engineers with flexible funding and the freedom to take risks and explore new frontiers in their fields of study. This year's class of 20 fellows will each receive grants of $875,000 over five years. Lin is an assistant professor in the Whiting School of Engineering's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The Lin Lab harnesses advances in materials science, synthetic biology, and protein engineering to develop tools that spatiotemporally map cellular activities in living animals. Zhuang, whose area of research is algebraic geometry, is an associate professor in the Krieger School's Department of Mathematics. In his research he aims to find and classify algebraic varieties with nice geometric structures, such as metrics with constant curvature. His goal is to use these theories to address foundational questions in birational and complex geometry.

Tiffany Wright, who has served as deputy general counsel since joining Johns Hopkins University in May 2023, has been selected as the university's next senior vice president and general counsel. Wright has served in the role on an interim basis since the departure of Senior Vice President and General Counsel Paul Pineau earlier this year. As general counsel, Wright will advise university leadership and JHU's board of trustees on institutional decisions and provide strategic guidance on governance, research compliance, faculty affairs, and the university's partnership with Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Sue Porterfield, who spent 20 years at Hopkins before leaving in 2023 to become vice president for research at Kean University in New Jersey, is returning to Hopkins in June to take up her new responsibilities as senior associate vice provost for research operations. In this role, Porterfield will oversee operations at both the School of Medicine's Office of Research Administration and the Johns Hopkins Research Administration. During her first appointment at Hopkins, she helped build the Office of the Vice Provost for Research from its start in 2014 and was director of Hopkins' Institute for NanoBioTechnology.

Krieger School Professors Martha Jones, Lucy Allais, and Jenann Ismael have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, and others, the academy recognizes individuals for excellence in academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science. Jones, selected in the history category, is a professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of History and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute. A writer, historian, legal scholar, and public intellectual, she focuses on understanding the politics, culture, and poetics of Black America. Allais and Ismael are both professors in the Philosophy Department and were selected for membership in the philosophy category. Allais' research interests include the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, as well as the themes of forgiveness, punishment, and bioethics. Ismael's research focuses on the philosophy of physics and metaphysics, especially areas involving the structure of space and time, quantum mechanics, and the foundations of physical laws.

Martha Jones and David Yezzi have been named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows, a prestigious distinction that recognizes achievements and exceptional promise. Jones is a member of the Krieger School's History Department; as one of the three faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she is profiled above. Yezzi is a professor of poetry in the Krieger School's Writing Seminars. His most recent book is Late Romance: Anthony Hecht—A Poet's Life.

The Applied Physics Laboratory is part of a team that was awarded the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association for its work on the Parker Solar Probe. The award recognizes exceptional achievement in aeronautics and astronautics in America with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles in the previous year. The Thermal Protection System, or heat shield, which was one of the critical advancements leading to the Parker Solar Probe's success in getting closer to the sun than any spacecraft had ever been, was developed jointly by a team at APL and the Whiting School.

Sean Jones, the Peabody Institute's Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz Studies, and jazz faculty artist Tim Green were named among the 2025 winners of Howard University's Benny Golson Jazz Master Award, which celebrates the legacy of the hard bop composer and saxophonist who died in 2024.

Rosemary F.G. Wyse, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Krieger School, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Her research focuses on the field of galaxy formation and evolution, with emphases on resolved stellar populations and the nature of dark matter.

Four faculty members—Xun Jia, Rajat Mittal, Mihaela Pertea, and Sri Sarma—have been named fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Jia is a professor and chief of the Medical Physics Division in the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences at the School of Medicine. Mittal is a professor and the director of master's degree studies in the Whiting School's Department of Mechanical Engineering. Pertea is an associate professor of biomedical engineering and genetic medicine, with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. Sarma is a professor of biomedical engineering, associate director of the Institute of Computational Medicine, and vice dean for graduate education at the Whiting School.