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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!
Abigail’s research focuses on improving…
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 Solstice…
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.…
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…
Science Sundays: "The Birth and Death of Stars in Galaxies"
Where do stars and planets come from? New observations with the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s groundbreaking new James Webb Space Telescope, and the giant radio telescope ALMA reveal galaxies in…
Ohio State Energy Partners grants support innovation
Ohio State Energy Partners (OSEP), the university’s comprehensive energy management partnership, has announced 2023-24 grants for projects that advance access to STEM education for people with…
Galactic bubbles are more complex than imagined, researchers say
Astronomers have revealed new evidence about the properties of the giant bubbles of high-energy gas that extend far above and below the Milky Way galaxy’s center.
In a…
Shining Star: Ohio State honors student joins prestigious Astronaut Scholars
Harrison Blake, a rising senior, has been awarded the Astronaut Scholarship, which recognizes outstanding students in STEM pursuing research careers.
Blake was awarded the scholarship for…
Ohio State professor elected to National Academy of Sciences
An Ohio State University astronomy professor has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors a scientist can receive in the U.S.
David…