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Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships
Congratulations to Khalida Hendricks and Tom Holoien who recently have been awareded graduate student fellowhips!
Khalida won the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), which is a…
2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching
Todd Thompson was surprised today in Astronomy Coffee by President Alutto and others, who presented him with the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. Todd kept his wits about him and made…
Q&A with an Astrophysicist from Stanford's Particle Accelerator
Former CCAPP Grad student, Andrea Albert hung out at Gizmodo for an afternoon and answered questions from anybody who has them. Curious about dark matter? Got questions about gamma rays? Ever…
Breakfast of Science Champions for Astronomy
CCAPP co-hosted with Astronomy two classes of eighth grade students from Berwick and Dominion Columbus city schools on OSU's campus to learn about science through a series of hands-on activities…
CCAPP Faculty Wins Top Prize for Young Astronomers
Christopher Hirata, professor of astronomy and physics, received this year's Helen B. Warner Prize for observational or theoretical research from the American Astronomical Society - the premier award…
Dark Matter 'Wind' May be Warped by the Sun
"As WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) stream through the solar system, the gravitational pull from the sun alters their individual trajectories, changing their direction and speed," says…
A One-Percent Measure of the Universe
Researchers from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) that include CCAPP scientists announced this week that they have measured the distances to galaxies more than six billion light…
OSU Campus Campaign
Dear CCAPP members and friends,
The 2014 Campus Campaign is on until 30 April. When you are considering university and department funds to invest in, I encourage you to help CCAPP expand…
CCAPP Faculty Speaks about Supernovae
In today's Academic Minute, Dr. Christopher Kochanek of Ohio State University calculates the odds of a visible supernova occurring in the coming decades.
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