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Graduate Women in Physics Help the Homeless
This winter, the Columbus YWCA has teamed up with local homeless shelters to provide overflow shelters--overnight shelters for single women who are turned away when the homeless shelters are full…

New Physics Magazine Hot Off The Presses
Following a two year hiatus, the Autumn 2011 edition of the Physics Department Magazine has been published. Thanks to the Communications staff of the College of Arts and Sciences, this…

Professors Brian Winer and Richard Hughes are "in the news"
Professors Brian Winer and Richard Hughes were recently featured in The Columbus Dispatch and onCampus regarding the shutdown of the Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator on September 30. For full…

Professor Chris Hill appointed Deputy Physics Coordinator of the CMS physics program
Congratulations to Associate Professor Christopher Hill who was recently appointed Deputy Physics Coordinator of the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) physics program along with Luca Malgeri from…

Graduate Women in Physics Launch New Mentoring Program for Undergraduate, Graduate and Post-doctoral Researchers
The Graduate Women in Physics (GWiP) is sponsoring a new Mentoring Program for undergraduate and graduate students and post-doctoral researchers.
The goals of the program are:…

Team Physics Rides to Cure Cancer
Thanks to everyone in and around the Department for donating so generously to Team Physics and Peletonia 2011! This event is a bicycling fundraiser which provides research funding for The…

Dongping Zhong's research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
ONE TINY ELECTRON COULD BE KEY TO FUTURE DRUGS THAT REPAIR SUNBURN - excerpt from article by Pam Frost Gorder- Researchers who have been working for nearly a decade to piece together the process…

Fun with Physics at the Ohio State Fair
Graduate students, Becca Reesman and Andrea Albert, were interviewed by NBC 4's Gail Hogan about the presence of the Dept of Physics at The Ohio State Fair.

2011 GRASP Summer Camp
The 4th Annual Girls Reaching to Achieve in Sports and Physics (GRASP) Summer Camp was held June 13-17 and June 20-24, 2011. GRASP was created in 2008 and is hosted by the OSU Department of…