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Does Columbus Have Enough Tall Buildings To Support Spider-Man?
As fun as it might be to imagine, the feasibility of web-slinging through the city is really a matter of physics. Ohio State University physicist Michael Lisa used his analytical powers to solve…
Ohio State-led QuSTEAM initiative to transform U.S. quantum education
The Ohio State University is the lead institution in a new educational initiative being launched through the National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator program. The initiative is titled…
Ohio State’s National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NeXUS)
NeXUS will be managed by the Institute for Optical Science (IOS) and includes researchers from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Department of Physics. It was awarded $9.5…
Particle Astro Experimental group receives awards
First, CCAPP Fellow Steven Prohira is PI of a collaborative award (OSU lead institution) for the Radar Echo Telescope. With this 4-year award for $474k we will build, deploy, and…
NSF and NASA grants awarded to Professors Annika Peter, John Beacom and collaborators
Professors Annika Peter, John Beacom and their collaborators have recently been awarded grants:
Collaborative research: Tests of dark matter physics with isolated dwarf galaxies in the…
Discovery could lay the groundwork for future electronics design
Researchers have found new properties of very thin magnetic layers – just a few atoms deep – that could lead to better ways to store…
2020 Innovation Fund COVID-19 Cycle Recipients
As part of the APS Strategic Plan: 2019, the APS Innovation Fund was created, which encourages collaborative partnerships among APS members, APS Units and Committees, and APS staff to develop new…
STEMcoding Project Announces Big Updates and New Resources for Distance Learning
Each summer is an opportunity to polish, improve and build new STEMcoding content that mixes computer science with traditional science and math learning objectives. With instructors facing…
NIH S10 High-end Equipment Grant Awarded
Ohio State was recently awarded an NIH S10 high-end instrument grant for $675,000 to fund the purchase a Lumicks C-Trap. This is a single molecule fluorescence and force spectroscopy…