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Kochanek Named Astronomy Fellow
The American Astronomical Society (AAS) has named Chris Kochanek, Ohio Eminent Scholar and a professor in the Department of Astronomy, as one of 23 AAS Fellows for 2026. Kochanek was honored for…
CCAPP Faculty and DESI Collaboration Receive AAS Awards
Text from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Press Release: The 2026 Chambliss Astronomical Writing Award for astronomy writing for an academic audience, specifically textbooks at either the…
CCAPP Graduate Students awarded Presidential Fellowship
Four CCAPP graduate students have been awarded the 2025-2026 Presidential Fellowship! The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the…
Neutrinos ‘flavor’ may hold clues to the universe’s biggest secrets
by Tatyana Woodall (Ohio State News) In a new analysis, physicists provide the most precise picture yet of how neutrinos change ‘flavor’ as they travel through the cosmos. Neutrinos are…
DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize
Paul MartiniProfessor of Astronomy and Physics (Courtesy)martini.10@osu.edu The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration has been awarded the 2026…
Dusty structure explains near vanishing of faraway star
Newfound binary system is a cosmic oddball, researchers say. Ohio State News Article, written by Tatyana Woodall Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were puzzled when…
Prof John Beacom helps co-author National Academies report on “Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond”
Elementary particle physics reflects the human quest to understand the basic building blocks of nature and the rules that govern the physical world. At the request of the Department of Energy and the…
2025 Price Prize Winners Announced
CCAPP is proud to announce Gokul Prem Srinivasaragavan (U. Maryland) and Vedant Chandra (Harvard) as the winners of the 2025 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics! …
Trump wants to slash NASA's budget. That could doom an Ohio State-supported telescope
The Trump administration proposed plans on May 2 to dramatically slash NASA's budget in its 2026 "skinny budget," an outline of how it anticipates allocating government funds during the next fiscal…