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Physics & Astronomy alumni news from 2015-16. 2000 – 09 David Principe, B.S. 2009, completed his Ph.D. at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2014 and is currently a Fondecyt Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile. He will be transitioning to a postoc at MIT in 2016. Daniel […]

Physics & Astronomy alumni news from 2015-16. 1990 – 1999 Derek W. Beck, HTC Physics 1999, remains an active U.S. Air Force Reservist, and has been selected for a promotion to lieutenant colonel. He should actually promote midsummer 2017. While Derek spends much of the year on active duty with […]

Physics & Astronomy 2015-16 Student News Sean McGraw won first place in Ohio University’s inaugural 3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) competition, hosted by Graduate College. His presentation title was “Black Holes: Little Engines that Control the Evolution of Galaxies.” Andrea Richard received the Science Graduate Student Research Award from the Department of Energy […]

Two special Physics & Astronomy events—the “JINA-CEE Satellite Workshop on Experiments for X-ray Burst Nucleosynthesis’’ on May 22, 2016, and the “JINA-CEE International Symposium on Neutron Stars in the Multi-Messenger Era: Prospects & Challenges’’ during May 23-27, 2016—took place in Walter Hall 245 in Athens, Ohio. More than 80 scientists […]

The following are Physics & Astronomy Scholarship Recipients for 2015-16. Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor Scholarships (full tuition) Kate Nichols Daniel Ivory Jacob Williamson John E. Edwards Fellowship Brandon Coleman Anika Friedman Taylor Gardner Daniel Ivory Jamison Lahman Hunter Lawson Miles Lindquist Katelyn Nichols Nick Zalensky Lela A Ewers […]

Physics & Astronomy congratulates Doug Shafer as the Outstanding Staff Member for the department this year. The machine shop supports the teaching, research and service mission of our department and the college. Shafer’s knowledge of all systems electrical and mechanical is surpassed by no other. He has built or improved […]

The following is Physics & Astronomy faculty news from 2015-16. Alexander (Shura) Neiman, who specializes in techniques to separate signals from a noisy background, was promoted to full Professor. Shura co-authored several articles recently on this topic in the prestigious journals Physical Review Letters and Physical Review E. His work […]