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The Physics & Astronomy Colloquium Series presents Ryan Chornock, of Ohio University,  on “A Golden Neutron Star Merger” on Friday, Nov. 17, at 4:10 p.m. in Walter 245. Abstract: On August 17, a binary neutron star merger was detected by the Advanced LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave observatories.  The detection of an […]

By Angela Woodward From Compass At the core of Ohio University’s very being is a University-wide commitment to research, a hallmark of OHIO noted in its mission, vision, core values and guiding principles. And behind every external dollar that comes into the University to fund research – nearly $115 million […]

The Ohio University Student Research and Creative Activity Expo is an opportunity each year for Physics & Astronomy students to present scientific information in a format that is often used at international scientific conferences. A panel of faculty members in the sciences serve as judges determines the winning posters. This […]

Jacob Williamson presented “Burning out swiftly: SN 2005da and its curious nature” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Williamson continued his work with Dr. Ryan Chornock from the previous summer.  Williamson examined the light curve and spectra of supernova (SN) 2005da.  This […]

Joseph Pincura presented “A Search for Echoes of Old Tidal Disruption Events” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Late Times Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are objects where the supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy disrupts and accretes a star […]

Taylor Gardner  presented “Spatial Distributions of Type 1a Supernovae in Early-Type Galaxies” at the 2017 Ohio University Society of Physics Students Research Conference held in March. Gardner studied Type Ia supernovae under the direction of Dr. Ryan Chornock. Type Ia supernovae (also known as SNe Ia) are produced by the explosions of white […]

Twenty-one College of Arts & Sciences Students earned departmental honors in 2017. Outstanding undergraduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences at the junior or senior level who maintain an accumulative GPA of at least 3.50 may be eligible to earn departmental honors from their department of major. A […]