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On November 6th, the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), and other OSU departments and centers hosted Breakfast for Science Champions,…

Klaus Honscheid, professor of Physics, and Paul Martini, professor of Astronomy, have received a $2.5M award from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to support operation of the Dark Energy…

OSU Physics Professors Jeanie Lau and Marc Bockrath were featured in the OSU Research News article Finding the “magic angle” to create a new superconductor which summarizes their search to find…

Congratulations to Dr. Amy Connolly for being named a 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society!

Dr. Connolly's citation was for: contributions to experimental and theoretical studies…

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded the Institute for Optical Science at OSU $9.5 Million to establish a National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NEXUS) which will be open…

Physics alumni Shirley Li (Ph.D. 2017, advisor John Beacom) and Isaac Upsal (Ph.D. 2018, advisor Michael Lisa) have each won the 2020 Dissertation Award of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics.  …

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) is pleased to announce that John Beacom is the 2019 recipient of the annual Mentor of the Year Award. The Faculty Mentor of the Year Award recognizes a…

Arthur Joseph Epstein, Ohio State University Distinguished Professor of Physics and Chemistry, passed away on August 25th and is being remembered by the physics community for his contributions to…

Dr. Enam Chowdhury has won a Department of Energy (DOE) award of $410,000 (2019-2022) under the High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP) program to develop a high spatial and temporal…