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The Department of Physics Undergraduate Studies Committee has chosen this year's undergraduate award winners. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to recognize this year's award recipients…

An international team of physicists announced earlier this month that their data reached a level of statistical significance known as “five sigma,” a threshold that most scientists agree means you…

From sharing the grandeur of our universe with the public at the SciDome Planetarium to exploring black holes with middle schoolers and discussing the possibility of extraterrestrial life with…

For the third time in his career, The Ohio State University at Newark Assistant Professor Michael Stamatikos, PhD, has received the prestigious Bruno Rossi Prize from the American Astronomical…

The Department of Physics is pleased to announce that Zachariah Addison, a postdoc working with Prof. Nandini Trivedi and Prof. Mohit Randeria was chosen as one of 10 members of the…

If you have a symmetry in a classical system are you guaranteed that the symmetry will persist in the quantum system? An anomaly is the breakdown of a symmetry in the quantum system arising from…

Christopher Hirata, professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Astronomy, has received the Distinguished Scholar Award, awarded each year to six Ohio State…

Prof. Yuanming Lu who was recently awarded the Outstanding Young Researcher Award (OYRA Macronix Prize) by the International organization of Chinese Physicists and Astronomers (OCPA) for " …

Prof. Robert Baker (Chemistry & Biochemistry) has agreed to serve as Deputy Director of the Institute of Optical Science. The Institute’s Director, Prof. DiMauro, stated that as activities at the…