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Sad News About Gary Steigman

We are incredibly saddened to report the death of Gary Steigman, our friend and colleague. Gary passed away on April 9, 2017 from injuries he suffered in a bad fall the previous week.…

David Will wins Distinguished Staff Award

We are pleased to announce that David Will was awarded a 2017 Distinguished Staff Award! The Distinguished Staff Award is awarded annually to 12 staff members at The Ohio State University, and…

Marc Pinsonneault Wins University Distinguished Scholar Award

ASAS-SN Project Receives Grant from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

Ohio State’s All-Sky Automated Search for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) project has received a new, five-year, $2.4 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to double the size of the…

Laura Lopez Gives Prize Lecture

Astronomy Assistant Professor Laura Lopez presented a keynote talk entitled "The Tumultuous Lives and Deaths of Stars" at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 4, 2017…

Adam Leroy Wins NSF CAREER Award

Astronomy Assistant Professor Adam Leroy was awarded a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation, which supports junior faculty who are…

Barbara Ryden Elected a Fellow of the AAAS.

Four Ohio State University faculty, including Astronomy Profesosr Barbara Ryden, have been elected this year as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

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Undergraduate Students Win Research Scholarships

Undergraduate Astronomy & Astrophysics majors Fangze Liu, Joseph Schulze, and Andrew Taylor have been awarded Undergraduate Research Scholarships from the Arts & Sciences Honors Committee…

Graduate Student wins award at SACNAS Conference

Astronomy graduate student Steven Villanueva Jr. won the graduate student award for best oral presentation in Physics and Astronomy at the 2016 Conference of the Society for the Advancment of…