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Department of Physics Members Visit Capitol Hill
Department of Physics Professor Mike Lisa and graduating student Josie Rose visited Capitol Hill last Wednesday to talk to Ohio congressmen and senators to lobby for support of nuclear physics.

Grad TA Awards Announced at 2025 Spring Picnic
This year at the Department of Physics Spring Picnic, we celebrated several of our grad students and TAs for their outstanding work.
The winners' names and award types are as…

Undergraduate Award Winners Recognized at Spring Picnic
Undergraduate Physics and Engineering Physics majors who received academic merit scholarships were recognized on Tuesday April 22 at the annual Department of Physics Spring Picnic.
The…

Distinguished Staff and Lecturer Awards Announced at Spring Picnic
Annually, three staff persons in the Department of Physics are awarded the John G. Whitcomb Distinguished Staff Award. This award was established to recognize exceptional accomplishments,…

Dark energy may have once been ‘springier’ than it is today − DESI cosmologists explain what their collaboration’s new measurement says about the universe’s history
DESI article for The Conversation website

Three Department of Physics Faculty Elected to 2024 Class of AAAS Fellows
Department of Physics Professors John Beacom, Jeanie Lau, and Roland Kawakami are among the nine total OSU scientists who have been elected to the 2024 class of American Association for the…