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COSI Planetarium Grand Re-Opening
CCAPP Postdoc, Paul Sutter, along with other CCAPP researchers helped attendees of the planetarium grand re-opening event with a make-your-own clay cosmic web activity.
The new COSI…
Testing Gravity Using Cosmic Voids
Astrophysicists have long searched for ways to find cracks in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, and thanks to OSU undergraduate Paul Zivick, his advisor Paul Sutter, and an international…
Breakfast of Science Champions
CCAPP along with departments of Astronomy and Physics, hosted Columbus middle school students for this year's Breakfast of Science Champions event. Students visited the newly renovated Astronomy…
ASASSN-14ae: A Tidal Disruption Event at 200 Mpc
ASAS-SN (All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae) paper "ASASSN-14ae: A Tidal Disruption Event at 200 Mpc" led by OSU astronomy graduate student Tom Holoien is subject to OSU press release: "Lucky…
Trillian Project Gets Support from Mozilla ScienceLab
Trillian is a new project that aims to be an all-sky, multi-wavelength computational engine for astronomy data. It was selected to be one of the research projects for the Mozilla ScienceLab's…
New CCAPP Hires for 2014
CCAPP is excited to welcome four new postdocs this fall! Looking forward to a great year.
Ashley Ross joins us from the University of Portsmouth, UK. This is his second postdoc and works on…
SURP Researcher Discusses His Research
Paul Zivick was accepted into this year's Astronomy Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), working with faculty Paul Martini and postdoc Paul Sutter on observable characteristics of cosmic…
Twelve CCAPP alumni starting permanent-track jobs this year
One of the goals of CCAPP is to train the next generation of scientists in research as well as the skills needed for success in such a career. This is a huge year in terms how many of our graduate…
Graduate Student Wins Presentation Awards
Congratulations to Shirley Li, who was one of the winners of the 2014 Physics department PGSC poster competition. Her poster was on her work calculating cosmic-ray muon induced backgrounds in the…