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Bunny and Tom Clark
November 27, 2018

Legacy of Prof. Bunny Clark featured in ASC News

Prof. Bunny Clark was a cheerleader for women in Physics, faculty, staff and students alike.  Arts and Sciences News is featuring a story about Bunny, her own philanthropy in both monetary and…
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November 20, 2018

OSU Physics ranked #26 in the world

US News and World Report recently released its list of Best Global Universities for 2019.  In the discipline of Physics, OSU was ranked #26 in the world.  Of the twenty-five institutions ranked ahead…
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NSBP students
November 20, 2018

OSU Physics hosts National Society of Black Physicists November 5

OSU Physics hosted almost 50 students on  November 5 during the National Society of Black Physicists Conference that was held in Columbus last week.  Their visit to campus included presentations…
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STEM coding workshop
November 5, 2018

STEMcoding Youtube Channel Celebrates 1-year Anniversary, 2000 subscriber milestone

Coding and scientific computing have become crucial tools for understanding the universe. For OSU  physics Prof. Chris Orban and the STEMcoding project the goal is to create a curriculum for high…
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October 31, 2018

Scarlet Laser Facility to become part of LaserNetUS

A new research network called LaserNetUS is being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.  The Scarlet Laser Facility in the Department of Physics at OSU will receive $1 million to fund its part of…
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October 18, 2018

Capacity crowd attends 56th Annual Smith Lecture on October 17

More than 600 people filled 131 Hitchcock Hall to capacity last night to hear 2017 Nobel Laureate Rai Weiss from MIT present the 56th Annual Smith Lecture. Prof. Weiss’s talk entitled “Exploration of…
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October 8, 2018

Results from Dark Energy Survey (DES) published in Physical Review D and in an APS "Viewpoint" Article

One year ago the Dark Energy Survey (DES) released the initial cosmological results from its first year of data using a combined analysis of weak gravitational lensing and the clustering of large-…
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October 2, 2018

John Beacom named Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy

John Beacom, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) has been named the second…
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September 28, 2018

Professor Ezekiel Johnston-Halperin is part of a multi-university collaboration awarded $218M grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) in the emerging field of Quantum Information Science

Ohio State researchers are among the scientific leaders that have just been awarded a total of $218 million in funding from the Department of Energy (DOE) in the important emerging field of Quantum…