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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…
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…
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)…
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 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 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…
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 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.…
Todd Thompson Named a 2018 Simons Fellow
The Simons Foundation has named Todd Thompson, professor of the Department of Astronomy, as a 2018 Simons Fellow in theoretical physics. Thompson is one of only 52 fellows, and one of only 12 in…