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Dr Amy Connolly receives the 2019 Physics Undergraduate Teaching Award
April 17, 2019

Professor Amy Connolly wins Undergraduate Teaching Award

Prof. Amy Connolly was surprised this morning in her Physics 1251H classroom by Prof. Robert Perry with the 2019 Physics Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award is given annually and is voted on by…
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April 9, 2019

Ohio State Physicists Are Part of Two $7.5 Million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative Grants

Ohio State Department of Physics professors P. Chris Hammel, Fengyuan Yang, and Roland Kawakami are part of two research teams that have each been awarded $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University…
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DESI first light
April 3, 2019

DESI optical system works as designed

Professor Klaus Honscheid reports a successful start of the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) commissioning campaign which reached a major milestone recently when they used the OSU building…
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March 29, 2019

Online Teacher Training for Coding in Physics & Physical Science offered by Prof. Chris Orban and STEMcoding project

According to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 70% of new STEM jobs will require some level of computer programming skills. But surveys conducted in Ohio by code.org (https://…
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March 22, 2019

Prof Chun Shen (OSU PhD 2014) awarded 2019 IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Nuclear Physics

Professor Chun Shen, an Assistant Professor of Physics at Wayne State University who holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment in our Department and is also a RIKEN fellow at Brookhaven…
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Bunny Clark
March 19, 2019

Legacy of Bunny Clark featured in ASC Women's History Month feature

Bunny Clark, OSU's first woman faculty member in the department of Physics, is among the women featured by the College of Arts and Sciences in their tribute to Women's History month.  The article…
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K Weimer
March 6, 2019

Celebrate International Women's day and the first woman PhD in Physics at OSU

Friday March 8, is International Women's Day.  We have discovered that the first woman PhD at OSU Physics was Katherine M Weimer (pictured).  Katherine received her PhD in 1943 under Prof. Marion…
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March 4, 2019

Dr. Steven Prohira named OSU President's Postdoctoral Scholar

The Ohio State University recently named 10 young researchers as the 2019 cohort of President's Postdoctoral Scholars.  Physics is fortunate to have Steven Prohira among their number. Steven…
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March 4, 2019

Work of Professor John Beacom and his collaborators featured in NATURE

The research of Prof John Beacom and his collaborators at the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory is highlighted in a February 27, 2019 news article in NATURE.  Of special note is that later this…