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SDSS-V Focal Plane System Ready for the Stars (and Galaxies)!
The Astronomy Department's Imaging Sciences Laboratory (ISL) reached a major milestone this week with the shipment of the first robotic focal plane system (FPS) to Apache Point…

Citizen scientists find 10,000 new variable stars
More than 3,100 volunteers search the Milky Way in new projectVolunteer citizen scientists parsing data from a network of telescopes around the world this year identified 10,000 new variable…

Growth 'model'
Caroline’s accessibility startup blossomed as she leveraged the resources and connections Ohio State offers.
As a freshman at Ohio State, Caroline Karbowski, right, found the…

Engaged Scholars: Michael Stamatikos
Congratulations to Michael Stamatikos for being selected as the Engaged Scholar by OSU Outreach and Engagement for October 2021.
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Graduate Student Awards 2021
Congratulations to the following members of our Astronomy Ph.D. program at Ohio State. Each student is nominated and selected for each award.
In no particular order but congratulations to…

Sultana Nahar participates in Ohio State and EducationUSA information session for Bangladeshi students.
EducationUSA partnered with Ohio State to host a virtual information session on August 25, for prospective Bangladeshi students with the hopes of attracting them to attracting them to attend…

ASAS-SN Project receives $1.5 million Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant
The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), an Ohio State-led automated telescope network that observes the entire sky every night, has received a five-year, $1.5 million…

Kristy Krehnovi wins Distinguished Staff Award
We would like to congratulate Kristy Krehnovi on winning The Ohio State University's Distinguished Staff Award! The Distinguished Staff Award is the highest honor bestowed upon staff at the…

New evidence of how and when the Milky Way came together
New research provides the best evidence to date into the timing of how our early Milky Way came together, including the merger with a key satellite galaxy.
Using relatively new methods in…