JHU's Charles Bennett and Andrew Feinberg named Bloomberg Distinguished Professors

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One is exploring the origin and evolution of all of space; the other is floating in its simulated conditions to develop pioneering genetic sequencing techniques at zero gravity. Johns Hopkins' two newest Bloomberg Distinguished Professors are definitely out of this world.

Charles "Chuck" Bennett, currently the Alumni Centennial Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Gilman Scholar in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, will be the first Bloomberg Distinguished Professor to hold a joint appointment with the Applied Physics Laboratory, as a senior scientist. In step with One University goals to foster interdisciplinary collaboration across divisions, Bennett will direct Space@Hopkins, a new space studies initiative. Space@Hopkins will unify space-related activities across the institution in robotics, astronaut health, planetary sciences, solar physics, Earth science, spacecraft engineering, sensors, and astrophysics.