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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…

Professor Chris Hill and MilliQan Experiment featured in APS TV short film
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-…

Prof. Mike Lisa named a recipient of the 2025 Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
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…

Prof. K.K. Gan reelected Chair of the Institute Board of the Pixel detector of the ATLAS experiment
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…

OSU Physics Alumni Daniella Roberts Featured in APS 'Physics Today'
From original article, "Persistence pays off for APS Bridge Program graduate, now aviation data scientist", for APS News by Kendra Redmond
"As a kid, Daniella Roberts learned…

Grad Student Dina Eissa Wins People's Choice Award at OSU 3MT Competition
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…

Video Tour of OSU Medical Physics
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…

Department of Physics Well Represented at APS CU*iP Purdue Conference
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.
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