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Ohio State-Newark professor helps interpret data from NASA satellite

January 19, 2017

Ohio State-Newark professor helps interpret data from NASA satellite

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"Michael Stamatikos is an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio State University-Newark. He also is part of a team of scientists working on interpreting data from NASA's Swift satellite. The dual role has proved ideal for Stamatikos, who said he realized he had a passion for teaching while in college at the State University of New York-Buffalo."

"For his students, having such a well-connected professor has proved invaluable because Stamatikos has involved several of them in his research. Because OSU-Newark is a branch campus, where students typically spend just a few semesters before moving on, they normally aren't exposed to such high-level research."

Image: An artist's rendering of a gamma-ray burst, the type of cosmic event being monitored by Stamatikos. (Goddard Space Flight Center)

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