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Three staff receive Distinguished Staff Awards at Annual Picnic
The Annual Physics Picnic was the location of the announcement of the 2014 John G. Whitcomb Distinguished Staff Awards. This year the three winners were Kris Dunlap, Lisa Colarosa and Eric Robbins…
NSF Fellowship awarded to Khalida Hendricks
Khalida Hendricks, a student of Prof. Amy Connolly has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) 3 year fellowship. Khalida is finishing her first year in our…
Graduate Student Chun Shen is awarded the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad
Chun Shen, Physics Graduate student, advised by Professor Ulrich Heinz has recently been awarded a scholarship by the China Scholarship council. The Chinese Government Award for Outstanding…
Spring HoloFest 2014 brings noted holographers to OSU
The OSU Holography Club, advised by Professor Harris Kagan, will be hosting Spring HoloFest 2014 beginning on Friday April 18 with a lecture by Betsy Connors at 3:00 pm in 0006 Smith Laboratory. A…
DECam the "focus" of Physics Today cover
Every night, on a mountain top high in the Chilean Andes, a new instrument images a portion of the southern sky collecting light emitted by distant galaxies billions of years ago. A team of…
Prof. Samir Mathur wins 2014 Distinguished Scholar Award
A "staged meeting" with graduate studies and the chair was the setting in 4138 PRB on Tuesday April 8 for the "surprise" visit by President Joe Alutto, Executive Dean David Manderscheid and Sr…
Lucas Beaufore, Undergraduate Engineering Physics Major wins 1st place award at Denman
Physics undergrads once again participated in force at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum. Thirteen students participated and Lucas Beaufore, advised by Prof. Klaus Honscheid…
NATURE Nanotechnology publishes findings of Hammel group on potential of diamonds in computing
A group of OSU physicists led by Professor Chris Hammel have discovered that diamond can transport spin in a way that could potentially be used in computing and challenges the way researchers have…