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Paul Sutter with SYREN Modern Dance

Paul Sutter and SYREN Modern Dance Celebrate their First Studio Showing

At their first studio showing on December 1st, SYREN Modern Dance and Paul Sutter traveled through narrative sequences and robust movement throughout "Ticktock", an exploration of time rooted in…

Graduate Student Romy Rodriguez

Romy Rodriguez Awarded the AAS Beth Brown Memorial Prize at the NSBP

Romy Rodriguez, a graduate student of Astronomy, won the American Astronomical Society (AAS) Beth Brown Memorial Prize at the National Society of Black Physicist (NSBP) meeting for best poster…

Professor John Beacom

John Beacom named Henry L. Cox Professor of Physics and Astronomy

John Beacom, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP) has been named the second Henry L. Cox…

Star party at sunset

PhD Graduates Move to Research Positions at MIT, Hawaii, Penn State, and Santa Cruz

The Department of Astronomy at The Ohio State University had four PhD candidates successfully defend their PhDs in the summer of 2018. All four secured prestigious post-graduate (postdoctoral)…

OSU STEAM Factory outreach

Paul Sutter Awarded Grant from Ohio State's Women and Philanthropy

Paul Sutter received a Women and Philanthropy grant award to connect OSU STEAM Factory faculty, including from the Department of Astronomy, with the COSI after-school outreach team to co-develop…

ASAS-SN grant acceptance

ASAS-SN Awarded Grant from Ohio State's Women & Philanthropy

The All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) has been awarded a grant from Ohio State’s Women & Philanthropy! 

The grant will fund the follow-up observations necessary to…

Christopher Hirata, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at The Ohio State University

Christopher Hirata Awarded New Horizons Physics Prize

Christopher Hirata received the New Horizons in Physics Prize “for fundamental contributions to understanding the physics of early galaxy formation and to sharpening and applying the most powerful…
The Green Bank Telescope, world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, in Green Bank, West Virginia

Astronomy and Physics Students Visit Green Bank Telescope

A group of astronomy and physics students recently got a firsthand look at the Green Bank Telescope, the world’s largest steerable radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia.

Located away…

Brad Peterson

Brad Peterson Awarded the NASA Exceptional Service Medal

Bradley Peterson, professor emeritus and former chair of the Department of Astronomy, has been awarded a NASA Exceptional Service Medal, one of the space agency’s most prestigious annual honors.…