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2025 Tuttle Paper Prize awarded to Wynne Turner
Every year, OSU astronomy graduate students publish about 20 first author papers. The department awards the Ann S. Tuttle Paper Prize to one outstanding graduate student-led paper published during…
2025 David Will Prize awarded to Michael Tucker
The David Will Prize recognizes a student or postdoctoral researcher in astrophysics who is conducting an exceptional research program in computational astronomy, survey astronomy, data science,…
2025 Allan H. Markowitz Prize to Debosmita Pathak
The Markowitz Award is given to a graduate student who is conducting or developing a research program in areas of observational astronomy. The award is made possible by a generous gift from Ohio…
Laura Lopez awarded 2025 Nancy Grace Roman Award
The 2025 Nancy Grace Roman Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) has been awareded to Dr. Laura Lopez. Named for an icon in the history of astronomy research and space…
DESI Collaboration to Receive 2026 Berkeley Prize
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collaboration has been awarded the 2026 Lancelot M. Berkeley – New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. This…
Dusty structure explains near vanishing of faraway star
Stars die and vanish from sight all the time, but astronomers were puzzled when one that had been stable for more than a decade almost disappeared for eight months.
Sculptor galaxy image provides brilliant details that will help astronomers study how stars form
If you happen to find yourself in the Southern Hemisphere with binoculars and a good view of the night sky on a dark and clear summer night, you might just be able to spot the Sculptor galaxy. And…
Sultana Nahar receives William Fowler Award and Featured on Voices of Excellence
Dr. Sultana Nahar, a research professor in the Department of Astronomy, has received the prestigious William Fowler Award for Distinguished Research in Physics from the American…
MFA Students' Fulldome Film Selected for International Screening in Czech Republic
First-year MFA students Yeoleum Choi and Valeska Tan’s immersive full-dome film Ocean Cemetery was selected for screening at the 2025 Fulldome Festival Brno, held June 10–12, 2025 in the…