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2020 Scholarship Exhibition: Celebrating the Legacy of Bunny Clark
As a part of the 2020 Arts and Sciences Scholarship Exhibition, students and faculty in the Department of Physics told the story of Bunny Clark, a faculty member in the department from 1981 until…
An Interview with OSU Grad about Phosphine on Venus
Earlier this fall a study detected the chemical phosphine in the clouds of Venus. This was unexpected and could be a sign of life. Dr. Paul Rimmer, a graduate of the department and now at…
Prof. Nandini Trivedi named 2020 AAAS Fellow
Prof. Nandini Trivedi has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) — a special honor that recognizes leading scientists and…
Scarlet Laser Facility receives $2.1M from the Department of Energy as part of LaserNetUS
The Scarlet Laser facility is a founding member of LaserNetUS, a new network of high power laser facilities for external users. This fall, DOE awarded LaserNetUS $18 million in new funding…
Ohio-Region Section of the APS (OSAPS) meeting
The Ohio-Region Section of the APS Autumn Meeting 2020 will meet online on October 16-17, 2020. The Chair of the Ohio State University Department of Physics, Michael Poirier will give…
Photography on the smallest scale featured in Alumni Magazine
The Ohio State Alumni Magazine Fall issue recently featured photography by Jacob Repicky and Seth Shields.
Jacob Repicky, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Physics, studies the…
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…