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By Stephanie Dutchen From Perspectives Peer through a telescope and you’ll see a night sky filled with galaxies, gas and dust clouds, planets, pulsars, black holes, and ever more beautiful and strange objects. But this cosmic light show only reveals part of the picture. When you add the masses of […]

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On Feb 22, 2014, six undergraduate presenters at the Society of Physics Students Research Conference at Ohio University provided an overview of their individual research projects undertaken during and since the previous summer, which ranged in scale from subatomic to galactic sizes, and applications from micro-scale devices to new semiconductors. […]

Dr. Eric Stinaff, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, helped organize the 2014 Condensed Matter and Surface Science/Nanoscale & Quantum Phenonema Institute poster session in Clippinger Labs on April 17, 2014. Graduate and undergraduate students from the College of Arts & Sciences departments of Geology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics & […]

“It’s the stuff for which Nobel Prizes are awarded. The big news in cosmology is all about inflation, a theory that the universe suddenly expanded at an enormous rate in the first trillionth of a trillionth of a second,” writes Dr. Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University Professor of Physics,  in his […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Austin Way ’14, an Honors Tutorial College student who majored in Engineering Physics, received a prestigious graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation. The award includes three years of full support for graduate study during a five-year period, for the amount of $132,000. In […]

Physics & Astronomy graduate student Mongi Dlamini was helping April 1 when “the crown jewel of the Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility sparkled its way into a new era,” as Science Daily described it. That day will “forever remain engraved in my mind,” Dlamini says. The accelerator’s […]