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  1. Jayawardhana was born and raised in Sri Lanka. He was educated at the St. John's College, Nugegoda, [4] and Royal College Colombo and pursued his higher education in the United States. He received his BS degree from Yale in 1994 and his PhD from Harvard in 2000. [5] As a graduate student at Harvard, he led one of the two teams that discovered a ...

  2. About Ray. Ray Jayawardhana is Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, Hans A. Bethe Professor and Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. A graduate of Yale and Harvard, he uses the world’s largest telescopes to explore planetary origins and diversity. He is the co-author of more than 140 papers in scientific journals, and his ...

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  4. Ray Jayawardhana is the Provost of Johns Hopkins University and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Until October 2023, Jayawardhana was the Harold Tanner Dean of the Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University, effective September 1, 2018. He was formerly Dean of Science and a Professor of physics & astronomy at York University. Prior ...

  5. Biography; Provost Ray Jayawardhana serves as the chief academic officer of Johns Hopkins University.He is also a Professor of Physics and Astronomy. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Jayawardhana served as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University and the Hans A. Bethe Professor and professor of astronomy. Before his tim

  6. Ray Jayawardhana investigates the origins and diversity of planetary systems and the prospects for life in the universe, using the world’s largest telescopes. A prolific researcher with more than 140 scientific papers to his credit, his discoveries have garnered widespread attention. Ray is also an award-winning writer and author of popular ...

  7. September 05, 2014. Ray Jayawardhana uses many of the world’s largest telescopes to explore planetary origins and diversity, as well as the formation of brown dwarfs and stars. His recent research has focused on the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets using high-precision observations in an effort to advance understanding of ...

  8. Ray Jayawardhana is the Hans A. Bethe Professor and a Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. He will assume the role of the Provost of Johns Hopkins University on October 15, 2023. Until July 2023, he served as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell. As the leader of the largest and most academically ...

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