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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…

Grad Student Danielle Wampler receives 2025 GALA Award
Department of Physics graduate student Danielle Wampler was selected to receive the 2025 Graduate Associate Leadership Award (GALA)!
This Award (GALA) is the Graduate School’s recognition of…

New OSU Physics DESI Results Featured Across Major News Networks
The latest OSU DESI results have been featured across many major news platforms!
Ohio State News has the full story on their website, and it is linked on the Department of Physics site as…

Department of Physics Student Group WaGMiP was awarded the 2025 WiP grant for APS
OSU Department of Physics student organization, WaGMiP (Women and Gender Minorities in Physics), was awarded the 2025 APS Women in Physics Group Grant!
This $1,000 grant was awarded by the…