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John Wilkins Remembered by Physics Community
Emeritus Professor and Ohio Eminent Scholar, John Wilkins, passed away Friday December 6. John received his BS in engineering from Northwestern and his PhD in Physics from University of…
Graduate Student Noah Talisa wins Best Student presentation award at SPIE Laser Damage Conference
Noah Talisa’s (from Chowdhury group) oral presentation titled, “Single-shot femtosecond laser-induced damage and ablation of HfO2/SiO2-based optical thin films: a comparison between few-cycle…
Physics Major Receives FLAS Fellowship
Ryo Shinohara, a senior majoring in both Physics and Japanese, was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for the 2019-2020 academic year. The FLAS Fellowships are funded by…
Middle school students get hands-on science experience at Breakfast of Science Champions
On November 6th, the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), the Center for Emergent Materials (CEM), and other OSU departments and centers hosted Breakfast for Science Champions,…
Cosmologists receive $2.5M award for survey to study dark energy
Klaus Honscheid, professor of Physics, and Paul Martini, professor of Astronomy, have received a $2.5M award from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to support operation of the…
Professors Lau and Bockrath Featured in OSU Research News Article
OSU Physics Professors Jeanie Lau and Marc Bockrath were featured in the OSU Research News article Finding the “magic angle” to create a new superconductor which summarizes their search to find…
Prof. Amy Connolly Named 2019 APS Fellow
Congratulations to Dr. Amy Connolly for being named a 2019 Fellow of the American Physical Society!
Dr. Connolly's citation was for: contributions to experimental and theoretical studies…
NSF Establishes New Facility Within the Institute for Optical Science
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded the Institute for Optical Science at OSU $9.5 Million to establish a National Extreme Ultrafast Science Facility (NEXUS) which will be open…
Two Alumni Win 2020 Dissertation Award of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
Physics alumni Shirley Li (Ph.D. 2017, advisor John Beacom) and Isaac Upsal (Ph.D. 2018, advisor Michael Lisa) have each won the 2020 Dissertation Award of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics…