News

Phun with Physics at the State Fair 2025
We are wrapping up another successful year for the "Phun with Physics" booth at the Ohio State Fair.
Thank you to Harold Whitt, Christine Jackson, the machine shop team, undergraduate and…

Professor Brandenburg Elected New Chair of the RHIC
Department of Physics Professor Daniel Brandenburg has just been elected as the new chair of the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) and AGS users executive committee.
The…

Unveiling Topological Magnons: A Symmetry-Guided Discovery of 350+ Topological Magnon Materials
A newly published study from Prof. Yuanming Lu’s group co-led by Dr. Mohamed Karaki and Mr. Ahmed Fahmy, published in NPJ Computational Materials (Springer Nature), establishes a novel theoretical…

Undergraduate Summer Research Projects Showcased During Poster Session
Fourteen undergraduate physics and engineering physics majors participated in this summer's 10-week long Physics Undergraduate Research Program. On July 16 they shared their research projects with…

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Awarded to LHC Researchers
The $3M 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the researchers on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) collaborations!
OSU Department of Physics…

CCAPP Fellow Awarded NASA Grant
CCAPP Fellow and Department of Physics Post Doctoral Researcher, Jung-Tsung Li, was awarded a NASA Grant for almost $1 million dollars.
The proposal, “Unraveling Solar-Disk Gamma Rays with…

Professor John Beacom helps co-author National Academies report on “Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond”
Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. At the request of the Department of Energy and…