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Dan Pappalardo wins a Distinguished Staff Award
Dan Pappalardo, Senior Design Engineer in the Astronomy Department's Imaging Sciences Laboratory, has been named one of twelve recipients of the 2019 Distinguished Staff Award, Ohio State’s…

Congratulations to our Spring 2019 Graduating Undergraduates
We would like to say CONGRATULATIONS to our newly minted graduates with their undergraduate degree in Astronomy.
Grace Calhoun Dominic Flournoy Suren Gourapura Zhiyuan Guo Matthew…
A Conversation with Sultana Nahar
Listen to Sultana Nahar on the Female Voice podcast. Female Voice features stellar women of all nationalities and languages. The conversation 10-12 minutes long where the interview…

Astronomers are trying to measure the effects of dark energy on the expansion of the universe
A massive project on Kitt Peak is expected to be finished by Labor Day. Astronomers are installing new equipment that could help explain the mystery of dark energy and why the universe is…

Congrats to Jeniveve Pearson
Congrats to undergraduate student Jeniveve Pearson for winnin the prestigious Undergraduate Research Scholarship/ International Research Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences! More…

Ohio State helps dark energy instrument's lenses see the night sky for the first time
On April 1 the dome of the Mayall Telescope near Tucson, Arizona, opened to the night sky, and starlight poured through the assembly of six large lenses that were carefully packaged and aligned…

Confronting the STEM Syndrome – Michael Stamatikos
Check out Professor Michael Stamatikos as he explores the STEM Syndrome at The Ohio State University TEDx event!

Aces of Trades – Michael Stamatikos works with NASA in Newark
Read more about the fantastic work done by Professor Michael Stamatikos at the SciDome here!
A special visit by President Michael Drake.
NASA Apollo visit.

Gigantic Japanese detector prepares to catch neutrinos from supernovae
Eleven thousand giant orange eyes confront the lucky few who have entered the Super-Kamiokande underground neutrino observatory in Japan — by far the largest neutrino detector of its kind in the…