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Astronomy Graduate Student Received P.E.O. Scholar Award
Courtney Epstein, a PhD candidate in astronomy, has received the Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar award. The P.E.O. is a sisterhood of “women helping women reach for…
Astronomers Awarded $5M Contract to Build Cameras for New-Generation Microlensing Telescopes
A team of Ohio State astronomers has been awarded a $5 million dollar contract from KASI (Korea Astronomy and Space Sciences Institute) to build three 340 megapixel cameras - three of the…
2012 Spring Public Star Party
The OSU Astronomy Department will be holding a public star party on Saturday, April 28 2012 from 8:30-11:00pm on the observing deck of Smith Laboratory on the OSU Main Campus in Columbus…
Undergraduate Wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship
Johnny Greco, a junior double major in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics, has been named a 2012 Goldwater Scholar. This is the highest award for undergraduate researchers in science, math, or…
Biard Lecture - Sizing Up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective
5th Annual R. Jack and Forest Lynn Biard Lectureship in Cosmology and Astrophysics
Wednesday April 18, 2012 at 5:00 pm
Location: McPherson Lab - Room 1000 - 140 W 18th Ave,…
Venus Transit 2012
Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 5-11pm
The OSU Astronomy Department will be holding a public program to observe the Transit of Venus across the Sun on Tuesday, June 5, 2012, from 5…
2011 CCAPP Price Prize Winners Announced
The Dr. Pliny A. and Margaret H. Price Prize of the Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP) is supported by generous gifts from Steve Price and Jill Levy, and is named after Steve…
In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt “Signal of Impending Doom”
An otherwise nondescript binary star system in the Whirlpool Galaxy has brought astronomers tantalizingly close to their goal of observing a star just before it goes supernova.
A study by…
Planet-Hunter Scott Gaudi Receives Five-Year, $774,527 NSF CAREER Award
The highly-coveted NSF CAREER award will allow astronomy associate professor Scott Gaudi to take his scientific investigations to the next level, supporting his new project, The Demographics of…