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Today marks the last day of the ASPIRE summer workshop hosted by members of the Department of Physics. The ASPIRE workshop is for female high school students who are entering the 10th, 11th or…

Our final-year Ph.D. student Kelly Yunqiu Luo was recently awarded the Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship from Cornell University. This award will support Kelly’s salary and research expenses…

Quanta Magazine, a leading source for science journalism, has profiled the work of an Ohio State group on the high-energy gamma-ray emission of the Sun.  This group, led by faculty Annika Peter…

Brian Clark is completing his PhD at Ohio State and now knows where he will continue his education - at Michigan State - funded by an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral fellowship. Brian…

Junior Physics and Chemistry major Caroline Jipa is one of four Ohio State Students to receive 2019 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships.  Caroline aims to earn and Md/PhD in biophysics in order to…

Prof. Amy Connolly was surprised this morning in her Physics 1251H classroom by Prof. Robert Perry with the 2019 Physics Undergraduate Teaching Award. This award is given annually and is voted on…

Ohio State Department of Physics professors P. Chris Hammel, Fengyuan Yang, and Roland Kawakami are part of two research teams that have each been awarded $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University…

Professor Klaus Honscheid reports a successful start of the DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument) commissioning campaign which reached a major milestone recently when they used the OSU…

According to estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, at least 70% of new STEM jobs will require some level of computer programming skills. But surveys conducted in Ohio by code.org (https…