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Spring Break - March 15-22
Spring Break is upon us. If you are travelling away from campus, have fun, be safe, enjoy, relax, rejuvenate and come back ready to finish strong.
If you are staying here, this is a…

Daylight Saving Time - starts Sunday at 2 AM
Remember to move your clocks FORWARD one hour this Saturday night or Sunday morning. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 am on March 8. To learn more than you ever wanted to know about…

Kyle Kafka is awarded 3rd place in Hayes Graduate Research Forum
Kyle Kafka, Physics graduate student, advised by Dr. Enam Chowdhury, won a third place in the Math and Physics Sciences division of the oral presentations…

Welcome to our newest faculty member - Yuan Ming Lu
The newest faculty member to join physics is Yuan Ming Lu. Prof Lu is a Condensed Matter Theorist. His PhD was received at Boston College in 2011. Following his graduation he was…

Professor Andrew Heckler and his team win 2015 Office of Distance Education and eLearning Grant
Associate Professor of Physics, Andrew Heckler, along with a team of graduate students and staff in both Computer Science and Engineering and Physics have been awarded a 2015 Departmental Impact…

Prof. John Beacom presents TEDxOhioStateU to a sold out crowd
John Beacom participated in a day of TEDx lectures entitled "The Human Narrative" to a sold out crowd on Saturday February 14 at Mershon Auditorium. John's presentation will soon be…

Physics Winter Party was a Tropical Paradise
The 2015 Winter Party was enjoyed by a host of students, faculty and staff. The atrium was turned into a Tropical Paradise through the hard work of the planning committee and staff and…

Higgs boson discovered in a superconductor
Nandini Trivedi and her theory-experiment collaboration have observed the Higgs boson in a superconductor. These discoveries were recently published in Nature Physics and commented on by…
Physics Front Office wins coveted Gingerbread Award
The front office staff won the coveted People's Choice Award at the annual Gingerbread Competition. This competition held in mid December challenged crews from research groups,…