Archive for April, 2015

Dr. Alexander Govorov, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was appointed to the Chang Jiang Chair Professorship of the Scholar Program of the Ministry of Education of China for 2014-17. Govorov received the 2014 Jacques-Beaulieu Excellence Research Chair Award created by the INRS Energy Materials Telecommunications Research Center in Montreal, Canada. […]

Dr. Gang Chen, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, can hardly picture a day in which he does not use glass. “Glass is a very active and important research field,” he says. “It covers almost every aspect of our lives, not only in the traditional aspect of […]

Mayur Sundararajan, graduate student in Physics & Astronomy, presented twice at the May 17-21, 2015, joint meeting of Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaf of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) and the Glass & Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society (ACerSGOMD.) This conference is the second of a two-year […]

Chandrasiri Ihalawela, a graduate student in Physics & Astronomy, presented twice on Optical and Electronic Materials and Devices – Fundamentals and Applications at the May 17-21, 2015, joint meeting of Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaf of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) and the Glass & Optical Materials Division of the […]

Dr. David Drabold, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, and Visiting Scholar Parth Biswas co-chaired a symposium on Phase Change and Other Chalcogenide Materials at the May 17-21, 2015, joint meeting of Deutsche Glastechnische Gesellschaf of the German Society of Glass Technology (DGG) and the Glass & […]

Dr. Heather Crawford, Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and several graduate students traveled to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University to participate in an experiment studying the very neutron-rich Carbon isotopes (16,18,20C) by measuring the states populated in proton-knockout reactions from neutron-rich nitrogen. The experiment […]

Last summer, Helen Cothrel ’15HTC Physics worked at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She received funding through an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, a two-year appointment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Education. The title of her NOAA project […]