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Performing statistical nuclear reaction calculations can be difficult, since they require inputs at a level of expertise which non-specialists often lack. Ohio University nuclear astrophysicist, Dr. Zach Meisel, decided to enlist the help of a student computer programmer last summer to write code to simplify the process. Meisel invited OHIO […]

By Brandon Niese ’19 B.S. Engineering Physics, Honors Tutorial College Living in Philadelphia for the summer in 2017 and working in a biophysics lab at a major cancer research center has been a life changing experience. Not only did I learn from scientists who are at the forefront of cancer […]

Ohio University Honors Tutorial College physics major Jack Bruno spent the summer as an intern based in the coastal city of Sheboygan, Wis., where he was a member of a scientific team studying the drift of pollution over Lake Michigan. Research since the early 1990s has shown the area has […]

By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Dr. Saw-Wai Hla was awarded the 2017 Samuel D. Bader Prize for Exceptional Achievement from the Nanoscience and Technology division of Argonne National Laboratory. “Dr. Saw Hla has been instrumental in establishing the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne as a (Department of Energy) […]

One of the central challenges of nuclear physics is to understand the structure of the atom’s nucleus and nuclear forces. Nuclear physicists for decades have sought ways to accurately compute the scattering of a proton or neutron from the nuclei, but lacked access to a sophisticated description of the nuclear […]

By Taylor Gardner (B.S. Physics, Honors Tutorial College, Class of 2018) I had the opportunity to be a summer intern at Ohio University’s Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology. I worked under the direction of Dr. Srdjan Nesic, Russ Professor of Chemical Engineering and ICMT’s director. My project, “Dynamic Water […]

Research by Dr. Alexander Govorov, Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, was featured in an Inhabitat article headlined “Hot electron research could open up greater efficiencies for solar energy.” Hot electron research is heating up solar and renewable energy research, according to the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. Nanoscientists […]