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OSU Newark Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing
Physics and astronomy professor Michael Stamatikos helped the community around OSU Newark celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
Professor Stamatikos worked with…

OSU Physics Postdoc Featured in Symmetry Article
OSU Physics post doctoral researcher, Dr. Suyog Shrestha, was recently featured in an article published by Symmetry, an online magazine about particle physics.
Dr. Shrestha is part of a…

Summer Research Projects Showcased During Poster Session
Twenty three undergraduate physics and engineering physics majors participated in this summer's 10-week long Physics Undergraduate Research Program. Yesterday they discussed their research…

STEMcoding Black Hole Videos Go Viral!
Professor Chris Orban recently wrote on the STEMcoding website about the group's collaboration with the popular Coding Train YouTube channel. NYU arts professor Dan Shiffman, who runs Coding Train…

OSU Physics Graduate Celebrates 106th Birthday
OSU alumnus Paul Weller pictured with Rick Harrison from ASC's Development Office, is celebrating his 106th birthday today. Mr. Weller graduated from OSU with a B.S. in Physics (1935) and an MBA (…

Physics Department Celebrates Shelley Palmer's Career and Retirement
The Department of Physics celebrated Shelley Palmer yesterday as she says thank-you and farewell to the OSU community after 23 years of service. Shelley has a long history with the Department of…

Physics Graduate Students Win Code 2019 Best Team Project
Hiran Wijesinghe and Dananjaya Liyanage from the physics PhD program were among the winning team of Erdős Institute’s Cőde 2019 bootcamp. They were awarded “Cőde 2019 Best Team Project” for their…

Nandini Trivedi and postdoc published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences
Professor Nandini Trivedi and her postdoc Niravkumar D. Patel have recently published "Magnetic field-induced intermediate quantum spin liquid with spinon Fermi surface" in the June 18, 2019 issue…

“Inside Super-Kamiokande 360-degree tour” Features Work of Professor John Beacom And His Collaborators
“’Welcome to my secret underground lair,’ he [Professor Mark Vagins] tells me as we get to his lab.” A new essay with spectacular photos shows the inside of the Super-Kamiokande neutrino…