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Physics Graduate Student, Jenn Holt, Drives Electric Motorcycle to Speed Record
The Buckeye Electric Motorcycle Race Team set an East Coast Timing Association (ECTA) speed record for electric motorcycles, July 8, 2012. The record speed was 144.352mph at the East Coast Timing…
Discovery of a Higgs-Like Boson at the LHC Experiments
On July 4th, 2012 a press conference was held at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland heralding extremely strong evidence for a new particle at a mass of approximately 126 GeV/c2 observed both by ATLAS…
The Beauty of Science
Visiting REU students were recently trained in basic machining techniques by our machine shop team. Lanese Lovings made creative use out of the part she machined, demonstrating that science and…
Weiran Li Receives Presidential Fellowship
Congratulations to graduate student Weiran Li who received an OSU Graduate School Presidential Fellowship! This prestigious fellowship recognizes outstanding scholarship and research ability and…
GRASP Summer Camp continues through June 22
The annual GRASP (Girls Reaching to Achieve in Sports and Physics) Summer Camp began June 11. Two week-long sessions will be held with 30 middles school girl attending each session. This…
Brian Keller Awarded Larry M. Lewellen Award for Distinguished Service
Congratulations to Brian Keller, Director of IT for the Department, on receiving one of the 2012 Larry M. Lewellen Awards for Distinguished Service from the Council of Graduate Students! This annual…
Physics Picnic provided food and fun and Awards to students, staff and faculty
Gray skies did not prevent anyone from enjoying the Annual Physics Picnic on May 22. Hundreds of students, faculty, staff and friends joined together for great grilled items and other picnic…
Jason Ho to be recognized at International Conference on Frontiers of Cold Atoms and Related Topics
Professor Jason Ho will be honored at a banquet at the Serenade Chinese Restaurant in Hong Kong tonight (May 15, 2012) on the occasion of his 60th birthday as part of the International…
John Beacom elected to office in the American Physical Society Division of Astrophysics
John Beacom, Professor in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), has been elected to a four-year term in the Chair line…