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Aaron Chen, Physics Graduate Student, receives PhD Dissertation Research Award from American Physical Society
Aaron Chen, a graduate student in Professor R. Sooryakumar's group, was recently notified that he has been awarded the PhD Dissertation Research Award by the American Physical Society Topical…

Professor Gordon Aubrech'st presentation at TEDx Columbus featured on OSU homepage
Professor of Physics, Gordon Aubrecht, along with Prof. Gary Wenk of Psychology Prof. Terrell L. Strayhorn, School of Educational Policy and Leadership are among the Innovators from The Ohio…

Ohio State Plays Key Role in Development of World's Most Powerful Digital Camera
Ohio State University researchers led by physics professor Klaus Honscheid have developed the software that will run a powerful new camera designed to answer one of the biggest mysteries in…

Dr. Kramer Akli receives a DOE grant to study star-like plasmas using the SCARLET Petawatt laser
High-energy density physics group (HEDP) scientist and Ohio State University Physics Department lecturer Dr. Kramer Akli has been awarded a 450K DOE grant. The funding will be used to create and…

Professor Kovchegov's book published in the UK
"Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy" authored by Professor Yuri Kovchegov and Professor Eugene Levin (Tel-Aviv University) has been published in the UK by Cambridge University Press.…

CEM Researchers Discover “Giant Spin-Seebeck Effect”; Featured on Cover of Nature
Exciting results which report an amplified “spin-Seebeck effect”, conducted by Christopher Jaworski, Roberto Myers, Zeke Johnston-Halperin and Jos Heremans, were published in the July 12th issue…

SCARLET Laser Facility is cover story in June issue of Laser Focus World
The SCARLET (Science Center for Advanced Research on Lasers and Engineered Targets) laser facility in the High Energy Density Physics group was the cover story of the June 2012 issue of Laser…

2012 CCAPP Price Prize Winners Announced
The Dr. Pliny A. and Margaret H. Price Prize of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) is supported by generous gifts from Steve Price and Jill Levy, and is named after Steve'…

Fun with Physics at the Ohio State Fair
Once again Harold Whitt and his crew are having "Fun with Physics" at the fair. Actually, they are working hard to show fairgoers that physics can be fun! Enter the Ohio State Fair at…