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2023 Price Prize Winners Announced
CCAPP is proud to announce Dhayaa Anbajagane (U. Chicago) and Jason Hinkle (U. Hawaii) as the winners of the 2023 Price Prize in Cosmology and Astrophysics!
Dhayaa's research program…
Using supernovae to study neutrinos’ strange properties
In a new study, researchers in the Departments of Physics and Astronomy have taken an important step toward understanding how exploding stars can help reveal how neutrinos, mysterious subatomic…
Galactic explosion offers astrophysicists new insight into the cosmos
Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope’s first year of interstellar observation, an international team of researchers was able to serendipitously view an exploding supernova in a…
President's Buckeye Accelerator awards
Caitlin O’Brien and her team won one of the 6 President's Buckeye Accelerator awards last night. 11 ventures made their final pitch in the Ohio Union last night brought to us by the Keenan Center…
Webb telescope sees once-invisible structures inside spiral galaxies
Researchers participating in the PHANGS collaboration, or Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies, are using the telescope's infrared capabilities to study 19 spiral galaxies. “The…
Keith McBride awarded the University of Chicago’s Grainger Postdoctoral Fellowship
Congratulations to postdoc and former OSU grad student Keith McBride who has been awarded the University of Chicago’s Grainger Postdoctoral Fellowship, one of the premier physics…
Astronomers Discover Clues about Stellar 'Glitching'
Astronomers have found a way to peer into the physics of some of the brightest stars in the sky.
Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, an international team of…
Congratulations to 2022-23 Presidential Fellows!
Congratulations to Heyang Long, Rachel Patton, and Carton Zeng for being selected as Presidential Fellows this year!
The Presidential Fellowship is the most prestigious award given by the…
Astronomers Create New Technique to Assist in Search for Dark Matter
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter – mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only been discerned by the effect they have on the natural world.