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By Lori Price Dr. Carl Brune, a nuclear astrophysicist at Ohio University, talks about “Cosmic Cooking–the Origin of the Elements” on A&S TV’s presentation of Science Café. He begins by quizzing the audience to identify the basic definition of an element, choosing definitions as a basic unit of matter and […]

For the first time, dark matter may have been observed interacting with other dark matter in a way other than through the force of gravity. Observations of colliding galaxies made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have picked up the first intriguing hints about the […]

Summer with the College of Arts & Sciences—Enjoy our Parks | Fill some Reqs—includes courses that can apply toward Ohio University’s general education Tier II requirements in Natural Sciences. Check the Registrar’s summer course offerings site for up-to-the-minute course availability—both online and on campus. ANTH 2010 Introduction to Biological Anthropology […]

Ohio University alum and Nobel laureate Sir Venkatraman (Venki) Ramakrishnan has been confirmed as President Elect of the Royal Society. He earned a Ph.D. in Physics from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. The result of a ballot of the Fellowship was confirmed at a meeting of […]

In the summer of 2014, Kylie Holmes ’16 worked on a particle physics project at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, VA. For 2015, the double major in Astrophysics and Meteorology headed to California for summer study work to conduct atmospheric research with NASA. Holmes will be […]

College of Arts & Sciences faculty dominated in presentations for the 2015 Women in Science and Engineering Program at Ohio University. Special thanks go to Dr. James Y. Tong, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry & Biochemistry, for organizing the annual event, held this year on April 9. Dr. Rebecca Barlag, Professor of […]

Sky and Telescope quotes Dr. Douglas Clowe, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, in an article on “How Slippery is Dark Matter?” “Dozens of galaxy cluster collisions confirm that dark matter particles probably slip right past each other within messy cluster mergers,” writes Monica Young. “The existence of dark matter […]