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Charlie Mace and Erik Zaborowski win Presidential Fellowship

The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the Graduate School to recognize the outstanding scholarly accomplishments and potential of graduate students entering the…

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Professor Hughes's $729K NSF Grant Receives Funding

Professor Kaeli Hughes's $729K NSF Grant, WoU-MMA: Cosmic Ray and Background Identification with RNO-G, has just received funding!

Abstract from the NSF:
"Neutrinos are unique messenger…

Twister

A cosmic tool for studying twisters and other severe storms

Physicists say particle-finding technique has value on Earth

Cosmic rays could offer scientists another way to track and study violent tornadoes and other severe weather phenomena, a new study…

John Beacom, Anna Voelker, Caitlin O'Brien at Award Ceremony

OSU Engaged Scholar Award

Engaged Scholars is a series highlighting Ohio State faculty who have made an impact in our communities through their community-engaged research and teaching.

2024 Award Winners

John…

Caitlin O'Brien presenting inside planetarium

Encouraging kids to shoot for the stars

Caitlin O’Brien grew up surrounded by space. Some of her fondest childhood memories are watching Carl Sagan's Cosmos with her dad. As an undergrad majoring in astronomy and…

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2024 Price Prize Winners Announced

CCAPP is proud to announce Abigail Lee (U. Chicago) and Hanjue Zhu (U. Chicago) as the winners of the 2024 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics!          

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Portable Planetarium Party on PRB Patio

One of our recent undergraduate alums, Caitlin O’Brien, working with two other undergraduates, was selected last year for the President’s Buckeye Accelerator Award.  Their project, called…

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First Results from DESI Make the Most Precise Measurement of Our Expanding Universe

Researchers at The Ohio State University played a major role in analyzing the first year of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s survey into the history of the universe…

Galaxy

Study delivers detailed photos of galaxies’ inner structures

JWST data reveals how dust, gas assemble to form galactic disks

 

For the first time, high-resolution images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope are offering powerful…