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Death Of Emeritus Professor Gary Steigman
APRIL 17, 2017
Pictured are Jim Beatty (former chair of Physics), Prof. Steigman, Gordon Gee (former OSU President) and Brad Peterson (former chair of Astronomy).It is with great sadness…
Astronomy Professor Receives 2017 University Distinguished Scholar Award
Marc Pinsonneault, professor of astronomy, is one of the world’s most accomplished stellar astrophysicists. His research focuses on theoretical models of stellar structure and…
High Energy Physics Group Receives $5.65M Grant from Dept. of Energy
The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a three-year, $5.65 million grant to Ohio State’s High Energy Physics Group to fund research of 13 faculty members, their postdocs and graduate students…
Theoretical Physicist Named 2017 Fermilab Distinguished Scholar
John Beacom, professor of physics and astronomy, director of the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), is one of three theoretical physicists named a 2017…
Creating Art that's Out of this World
Last month, an international team of researchers announced the discovery of seven potentially habitable Earth-size planets. While much remains unknown about these exoplanets, artists have come…
It All Goes Back to The Big Bang
Chris Orban, theoretical physicist at Ohio State’s Marion campus, studies laboratory and astrophysical plasmas in cosmological simulations. He leads the 2016 Battelle Engineering,…
Elemental Cosmic Origins
Astronomy Professor Jennifer Johnson has re-created a periodic table color-coded with the cosmic origins of all the elements. The table draws on research from astronomers and…
Astronomers view entire night sky thanks to $2.4 million grant
Humans have always marveled at the night sky. Yet, it has been impossible to monitor and record the entire sky nightly to seek transient, variable, sometimes violent events marking the evolution…
Humans Really Are Made of Stardust
"For decades, science popularizers have said humans are made of stardust, and now, a new survey of 150,000 stars shows just how true the old cliché is: Humans and their galaxy have about 97…