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Both fellowship programs will allow Andrew to investigate the intersection of AI and Astrophysics. The LSST-DSFP is a travel and learning fellowship that brings students from across the world…
Study visualizes linker histone’s genome targeting while undergoing erratic movements
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Originally Written By: Emily CaldwellA protein that’s…
Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin on quantum physics and Columbus’ technological future Orginally by Columbus in Color
Quantum physics may sound…
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A new telescope built with a field of view large enough to unravel some of the…
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The Ohio State University has joined the Midwest Quantum Collaboratory (MQC), a coalition of leading research…
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Douglass Schumacher, a professor in the Department of Physics, is part of a multi-university…
On Tuesday, August 11, Professor Jay Gupta joined host Amy Juravich and QuSTEAM Executive Director Shawnta Jackson for a conversation about the growing field of quantum information science and…
On July 23, participants of the Department of Physics Undergraduate Research Program presented their research efforts and results during a poster session hosted by the OSU Consortium of Summer…
The Ohio State University Department of Physics congratulates Professor Geraldine L. Cochran on being recognized as this month's honoree in the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP)…
Ohio State’s momentum in quantum research is creating new opportunities to transform foundational discoveries into technologies that benefit society. In the latest installment of the university’s …
Department of Physics Graduate Student, Mathew Leon, has been awarded a 2026 SMART Scholarship from the US Department of War!
The SMART (Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation…
During the 2025-2026 academic year (including summer 2025, autumn 2025, and spring 2026), 75 Physics and 19 Engineering Physics majors graduated for a total of 94 students. 57 students graduated…
Following recent coverage in The Columbus Dispatch, Dr. Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin, professor of physics and co-leader of the Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE), will be…
Professor Roland Kawakami was surprised on Tuesday April 28 during the Physics Spring Picnic when Professor Annika Peter, Vice-Chair for Undergraduate Studies, announced to the audience that Prof…
The Graduate Studies Office held their final event of the year today, a Pizza Party to celebrate our graduating students, recognize graduate student achievements throughout the 2025-2026 Academic…
During the Department of Physics' annual Spring Picnic, three awards are presented: the John G. Whitcomb Distinguished Staff Award, Outstanding Lecturer Award, and
Undergraduate Physics and Engineering Physics majors who received academic merit scholarships were recognized on Tuesday April 28 at the annual Department of Physics Spring Picnic.
The…
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) provides three years of support for graduate study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral degrees. 2,600 Fellowships were awarded this…
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DESI finishes observations for largest 3D map of universe Five-year mission completed as dark matter research…
In honor of World Quantum Day, The Columbus Dispatch recently highlighted the groundbreaking work being done at Ohio State's Center for Quantum Information Science and Engineering (CQISE).
The Goldwater Scholarship is one of the most prestigious academic honors in the nation for undergraduate students pursuing research careers in the natural sciences, engineering, and…
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Researchers reveal new method for dialing up superconductivity Surprising results spawn unusual physics, study…
Alex Schimmoller, physics graduate student, has been named a recipient of the 2026 Graduate Associate Leadership Award (GALA) for demonstrating exceptional leadership within the university and the…
Dr. Samir Mathur, professor of physics, was recently featured in a new installment of the Rethinking Reality series, produced by the World Science Festival. In a deep-dive conversation…
Dr. Michael Poirier, professor of physics, has been elected to the 2025 class of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellows. He is one of four Ohio State University…
The OSU Newark SciDome Planetarium Internship Program has been recognized by the Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement as a 2026 Program of Excellence in Engaged Scholarship…
Professor Masaki Oshikawa is one of the world’s leading condensed matter theorists of his generation. His work spans a remarkably broad range of topics, including condensed matter theory…
Former Graduate Student, Jeremy Borden, and Professor Yuri Kovchegov were recently published in the APS Physical Review D as an Editors’ Suggestion.
Read the full paper,…
Department of Physics graduate student, Zoe Phillips, has won the College of Arts and Sciences Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition! Zoe's submission, "Integration of Molecular Qubits into 2D…
Andrew Engel, an Ohio State physics graduate student, was recently published in Science Advances!
The study, "Understanding generative AI output with embedding models," explores…
Louis DiMauro, Director of the Institute for Optical Science and Hagenlocker chair and professor in the Department of Physics, is the corresponding author of a new article published in…
The OSU Graduate School has announced the 2025-2026 Presidential Fellowship recipients. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the…
The Ohio State University Department of Physics is pleased to announce that assistant professor, Kevin Singh, recipient of the John W. Wilkins Endowed Professorship of Physics, has been awarded $1…
Christopher Orban, associate professor of physics at Ohio State Marion, was recently featured on a WOSU Podcast discussing the government shutdown and its impact on research.
Read more about…
Yesterday, November 2, 2005, marked the 20th anniversary of the Physics Research Building, a cornerstone of our department's research collaboration, and community.
The story of our physics…
Four undergraduate physics majors represented the department at the 2025 Fall Meeting of the Eastern Great Lakes Section of the American Physical Society in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
Tianhao Jin…
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Original article: https://news.osu.edu/neutrinos-flavor-may-hold-clues-to-the-universes-biggest-secrets/
In a…
A newly published article from Prof. Geraldine Cochran (The Ohio State University) & Prof. Suzanne White Brahmia (University of Washington), published in Physics Today, rethinks what it means to…
The STEMcoding project just released a new activity explorer!
We encourage you to check out the new STEMcoding website, where all 44 activities can be viewed.
Mike Lisa Recognized as Distinguished University Professor
We are wrapping up another successful year for the "Phun with Physics" booth at the Ohio State Fair.
Thank you to Harold Whitt, Christine Jackson, the machine shop team,…
Department of Physics Professor Daniel Brandenburg has just been elected as the new chair of the RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider) and AGS users executive committee.
The purpose…
A newly published study from Prof. Yuanming Lu’s group co-led by Dr. Mohamed Karaki and Mr. Ahmed Fahmy, published in NPJ Computational Materials (Springer Nature), establishes a novel theoretical…
Fourteen undergraduate physics and engineering physics majors participated in this summer's 10-week long Physics Undergraduate Research Program. On July 16 they shared their research projects with…
The $3M 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the researchers on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) collaborations!
OSU Department of…
CCAPP Fellow and Department of Physics Post Doctoral Researcher, Jung-Tsung Li, was awarded a NASA Grant for almost $1 million dollars.
The proposal, “Unraveling Solar-Disk Gamma Rays with…
Quantum key distribution link established on Ohio State campus for the first time
Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. At the request of the Department of Energy and…
During the 2024-2025 academic year (including summer 2024, autumn 2024, and spring 2025), 65 Physics and 22 Engineering Physics majors graduated for a total of 87 students. 54 students graduated…
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.
Expanding Horizons in Optical Science: IOS Travel Awards Create International Opportunities
Michael Lisa named Distinguished University Professor
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 follows…
2025 Distinguished University Professors: Final honorees named to complete celebrated class
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…
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,…
DESI article for The Conversation website
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…
Nine Ohio State scientists selected as AAAS Fellows
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…
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…
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…
Department of Physics Professor Chris Hill and Graduate Student Mike Carrigan have been featured prominently in a short film about the milliQan experiment that Professor Hill is the co…
Department of Physics Professor Mike Lisa has been named a recipient of the 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award!
This is an annual award given by Undergraduate…
Professor K.K. Gan of the Department of Physics has been reelected Chair of the Institute Board of the Pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment. The experiment was designed to study proton-proton…
Ohio State is nation’s top producer of Fulbright U.S. Scholars
From original article, "Persistence pays off for APS Bridge Program graduate, now aviation data scientist", for APS News by Kendra Redmond
"As a kid,…
Department of Physics graduate student Dina Eissa has won the People's Choice Award at the recent OSU-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition!
This was the OSU Graduate School's fifth…
Physics saves lives!
Check out this behind-the-scenes tour of OSU's radiation therapy training facilities with medical physicist Professor Ashley Cetnar. She even talks about the recently built…
This year, the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy sent a combined 30 undergrad students to the 2025 APS Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics.
…
OSU Department of Physics Professor Samir Mathur has been featured in New Scientist!
Professor Mathur's article, A new kind of hidden black hole may explain the mystery of dark energy…
OSU Department of Physics Professor Chris Orban was recently interviewed for an education podcast, "Learning Unboxed."
Professor Orban is a co-founder of the STEMcoding project and was…
From original article on Ohio State News
Ohio State announces Agostini Prize Award is university’s most prestigious for scholarly and artistic achievement
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Department of Physics Professor Geraldine Cochran's proposal to reestablish a Physics REU Summer Program has been approved.
The program will support eight non-OSU students doing research in…
Department of Physics undergrad Maura Kelley was awarded in the College of Arts and Sciences Autumn 2024 Undergraduate Research Scholarship Cycle.
Maura is a Physics and Astronomy major…
The Institute of Optical Science takes a quantum leap with funding from the National Science Foundation
An interdisciplinary team in the Department of Physics and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University, with collaborators at the Massachusetts Institute of…
Ranjan Laha, an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, is one of two winners of the 2024 ICTP Prize from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste,…
Department of Physics Professor Emeritus and Nobel Laureate, Pierre Agostini, was elected to the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) 2024 class of fellows.
"The newest NAI fellows…
Department of Physics Professor Chris Hill has had three of his experiments featured in a New Scientist article.
The piece, "We may be about to solve the greatest riddle of…
The OSU Graduate School has announced the 2024-2025 Presidential Fellowship recipients. The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the…
This fall has been a busy time in the Department of Physics, with many of our undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty, attending various conferences.
Most recently,…
Originally posted on the OSU Institute for Optical Science (IOS) website.
In the beginning of November, Prof. Agostini traveled across China, visiting top…
Penn State and Ohio State physicists and engineers are collaborating on a $1 million Department of Energy grant to find a replacement for gallium nitride, exports of which are limited, for…
The APS Eastern Great Lakes Section (EGLS) Fall 2024 Meeting and SPS Zone Meeting took place at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio, on October 18th and 19th.
Several students from the OSU…
From original article for Photonics Focus Nov-Dec 2024, by William G. Schulz
Attosecond science: Nobel-worthy nonlinear optics on steroids
From original article on the Institue for Optical Science (IOS) website.
The 21st International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science (ISUILS2024) took…
Department of Physics Professor Kevin Singh was recently published in Nature Physics (2024) alongside his co-authors, for their article "A dual-species Rydberg Array".
…
We are excited to announce a new undergraduate physics course, available for enrollment for Spring 2025: Physics 2100, Physics for Future Presidents!
This course is four credit hours…
Department of Physics Professor Richard Furnstahl was awarded the American Physical Society 2025 Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics!
This award is given "To…
The Nobel Foundation has announced the 2024 Nobel Laureates, including the two winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics.
John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton have been chosen “for…
Department of Physics Professor Michael Poirier was awarded a 2024 APS Division of Biological Physics Fellowship!
"Fellowship in the American Physical Society is a great honor. In…
Department of Physics undergraduate student, Josie Rose, was invited to present at an international workshop in September.
The workshop, Intensity Interferometry 2024, was in Porquerolles,…
(From original article on OSU Office of Faculty Affairs website.)
Cynthia Carnes and Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin have been named ENGIE-Axium Endowed Chair…
Professor Geraldine Cochran has been named the 2025 recipient of the American Physical Society (APS) Edward A. Bouchet Award.
"This award promotes the participation of…
The Ohio State University rolled out two national commercials during the start of football season. The goal of the commercials is to highlight research at Ohio State and the Agostini…
Professor Alexandra Landsman's DOE Grant, Attosecond Physics with XFEL pulses, has been successfully renewed for the amount of $465K.
Abstract: Attosecond…
From original article on the OSU College of Arts and Sciences website.
A team of chemistry and physics researchers at The Ohio State University have received a $12M…
Professor K.K. Gan of the Department of Physics has been elected the Chair of the Institute Board of the Inner detector of the ATLAS experiment. The experiment was designed to study proton-proton…
Professor Kaeli Hughes's $729K NSF Grant, WoU-MMA: Cosmic Ray and Background Identification with RNO-G, has just received funding!
Abstract from the NSF:
Congratulations to Professor James Beatty, whose lab has achieved The Office of Environmental Health and Safety Dean's List!
"Congratulations! The Office of Environmental Health …
Congratulations to Professor Johnston-Halperin, whose lab has achieved The Office of Environmental Health and Safety Dean's List!
"Congratulations! The Office of Environmental…
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has named a third annual cohort of Experimental Physics Investigators to achieve remarkable physics insights and open new frontiers. This new cohort of 19…
Which Electron is Quicker?
In a recent paper published in the August 21, 2024 issue of Nature, an international collaboration…
Last Friday, August 16th, was the 61st Alpheus Smith Lecture, featuring Dr. Anne L'Huillier.
Dr. L’Huillier was a 2023 Nobel Laureate in physics alongside Ferenc Krausz, and OSU Emeritus…
From original article on the Institute for Optical Science's page.
The Institute for Optical Science and the Department of Physics hosted a Student Meet…
The Ohio State University high energy physics group recently was awarded a four-year $6.8 million grant from the Department of Energy.
This grant will fund the research activities of nine…
From original piece on OSU Student Success Research Lab News
Identifying Structures and Practices that Support/Hinder Engineering Identity Development Using…
We hope you had a chance to check out the physics booth at the Ohio State Fair! A big thank you to Christine Jackson, Harold Whitt, and all our volunteers for their hard work these past couple…
The Institute for Optical Science and Air Force Office of Scientific Research co-organized the 1st Joint DOD-IOS Workshop held at The Ohio State University on July 9 and 10, 2024.
The…
The display at the OSU 18th Street Library has been updated to include all six Ohio State affiliated Nobel Laureates.
Including the 2023 Nobel Prize winner in physics, Professor Emeritus,…
The Institute for Optical Science and 10 international partner organizations have been awarded two years of additional funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to…
We are happy to announce The OSU Department of Physics Spring 2024 Magazine is now available online!
This installment features news and goings on of our department from the past couple of…
This Wednesday was the 2024 Undergraduate Summer Research Program Poster Session!
We had 25 students in the program this year, and they each got a chance to present their work to their peers…
Original article from the Ohio State University Outreach and Engagement
June 2024
Engaged Scholars is a series highlighting Ohio State…
From original article for Ohio State Alumni Magazine by Jenny Applegate
Pierre Agostini is the first sitting Ohio State professor to be named a Nobel Prize…
From original story in Ohio State Alumni Magazine by Kristen Schmidt
The long and short of it Professors Lou DiMauro and Pierre Agostini, a 2023 Nobel…
From original story by Tatyana Woodall for Ohio State News.
Photo: Getty Images
NSF funding aims to support STEM students with varied math…
From original article by Evelyn Kretzer for Ohio State News, linked here.
Solstice Outreach uses…
We had 12 students participate in this year's David DeMartini Physics senior graduate student competition and three students with the highest evaluation scores are the winners!
The SubMillichargedExperimeT (SUBMET) is now taking data.
The experiment located at J-PARC in Tokai, Japan is the newest of Prof. Hill’s dark sector experiments to come online. It searches…
Professor Daniel Gauthier has been named a Reviewer of the Year for the journal njp Quantum Information.
When they asked him about why he spends time reviewing manuscripts, he said:
…
Michael Poirier, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics, and Carlos Castro, Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have received a National Science…
Geraldine L. Cochran, Associate Professor of Physics at OSU, conducts equity-oriented, physics education research.
Cochran was recently awarded $500k from the National Science Foundation to…
From original article by Tatyana Woodall for Ohio State News, linked here.
Digital twin models may enhance future autonomous systems
Systems controlled by…
During the 2023-2024 academic year (including summer 2023, autumn 2023, and spring 2024), 49 Physics and 18 Engineering Physics majors graduated for a total of 67 students. 38 students graduated…
Professor Yuri Kovchegov's scientific research was recently published in The Department Of Energy Office of Science highlight, “New Theoretical Contribution Helps Examine the Internal Rotation of…