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March 4, 2025

CCAPP Seminar - Ming-Feng Ho

Hybrid: PRB 4138 & Zoom
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March 6, 2025

Diversity Journal Club - Topic TBD

Hybrid: McPherson 4054 and Zoom
The planet Mars
March 6, 2025

Terraforming Mars - Feasible or Folly?

Columbus Science Pub, Up Front Performance Space
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March 18, 2025

CCAPP Seminar - Tanvi Karwal

Hybrid: PRB 4138 & Zoom

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Laura Lopez

Laura Lopez awarded ASC Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award

Prof. Laura Lopez has been awarded a 2025 College of Arts & Sciences Mid-Career Faculty Excellence Award. These awards recognize outstanding performance in all three areas of research,…

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Emeritus professor Jerry Newsom honored with OSU Distinguished Service Award

Professor Emeritus Gerald (Jerry) Newsom has been honored with a 2025 Ohio State University Distinguished Service Award. The Distinguished Service Award was established by the OSU Board of…

Professor Adam Leroy

Adam Leroy awarded Henry Draper Medal

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Adam Leroy has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal. The Henry Draper Medal celebrates those who have made “a recent, original investigation in astronomical physics, of…

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Laura Lopez and David Weinberg elected 2025 American Astronomical Society Fellows

Department of Astronomy faculty members Laura Lopez (Associate Professor) and David Weinberg (Distinguished University Professor) have been named as 2025 Fellows of the American Astronomical…

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