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John Beacom Awarded 2022 Outreach and Engagement Funded Impact Grant Proposal
John Beacom, director of CCAPP, was one of 11 awarded a 2022 Outreach and Engagement Funded Impact Grant for development of SciAccess, Inc., an international non-profit organization dedicated to…
Neutrinos Hint The Sun Has More Carbon and Nitrogen Than Previously Thought
For two decades, scientists have been unable to decide exactly how much heavier elements such as oxygen and carbon — crucial for sustaining life-forms like humans —contribute to the sun’s…
Seeing Stars: Astronomers Identify 116,000 New Variable Stars
By applying machine-learning techniques to the Ohio State-operated All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). ASAS-SN analyst Collin Christy and graduate student of astronomy Tharindu…
Dr. Krzysztof Z. Stanek Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022
Dr. Krzysztof Z. Stanek, professor of Astronomy, was one of two Ohio State Faculty awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2022. Dr. Stanek was one of the 180 American and Canadian scientists and…
Spring 2022 Physics Magazine Now Available Online!
Filled with great stories and highlights about the department over the past two years, the Spring 2022 OSU Physics Magazine has been made available online!
Print versions can be found in the…
Faculty Research Initiative: John Beacom
Neutrinos — almost-massless subatomic particles — zip through matter all the time. John Beacom, the Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy as well as the director of CCAPP, researches…
Paul M. Sutter Named 2022 Corones Award Honoree
Physicist and science communicator Paul M. Sutter has been named recipient of the 2022 James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication, for which we congratulate him!
Swiped in Space!
In 2004, astronomers in Hawaii discovered an unknown dwarf planet on the far edges of the solar system. But before they could announce their findings, another team of astronomers announced their…
Stanek awarded 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships
Krzysztof Stanek, professor and University Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Astronomy received the 2022 Guggenheim Fellowships.
Stanek, whose time at Ohio State…