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Accelerator Facility Enhances Collaborative Materials Research

Accelerator Facility Enhances Collaborative Materials Research

By Amanda Biederman NQPI Editorial Intern Ohio University’s Edwards Accelerator Laboratory sits tucked away within the walls of an unobtrusive brick building that extends some way into the hillside at the center of the main campus. This facility blends in with surrounding buildings, yet it attracts researchers from some of […]

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June 5, 2018 at 11:43 amResearch

Carter Reaches 45-Year Career Milestone at Edwards Accelerator Lab

Don Carter repairs a high voltage module for use in powering a particle detector at the Edwards Accelerator Lab.

Built into a hill on the Ohio University upper campus, the Edwards Accelerator Laboratory is Nuclear Instrumentation Engineer Don Carter’s dream career destination. Carter has spent the past 45 years as one of two engineers who manage the electrical and mechanical systems on a daily basis. Whether it is replacing […]

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May 1, 2018 at 3:09 pmNews Research

OHIO Physicists Advance Understanding of Chromium Nitride’s Controversial Properties

Professor Arthur R. Smith

  Ohio University physicists Dr. Arthur R. Smith and Dr. Sergio Ulloa have published side-by-side papers about understanding of the chemical compound chromium nitride, a material with a number of interesting but fairly controversial electronic, magnetic, and structural properties. Ulloa and Smith are members of OHIO’s Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena […]

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October 4, 2017 at 5:39 pmResearch

Securing Research Funding Aided by Persistence, Partnering

Dr. Sergio Ulloa

By Angela Woodward From Compass Securing research funding is, for many, a nearly all-day, every-day process as faculty are constantly thinking of new concepts and experiments to be explored and applications of theories to be implemented – all in the midst of their primary teaching duties. “It all starts with […]

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May 25, 2017 at 4:56 pmResearch

Impact of Physics Faculty Research Funding Reaches Beyond OHIO

Dr. David Ingram, a professor in and chair of OHIO’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, conducts research inside the W.M. Keck Thin Film Analysis Facility, located within the Edwards Accelerator Lab on the Athens Campus. Photo by Rob Hardin

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 […]

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May 25, 2017 at 4:51 pmResearch

Physics & Astronomy Undergraduates Take Honors at Research Expo

Physics & Astronomy Undergraduates Take Honors at Research Expo

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 […]

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April 21, 2017 at 8:37 pmNews

Physics & Astronomy Newsletter Message from the Chair

Dr. David Ingram

Greetings Physics and Astronomy Alumni and Friends, Continual improvement is one of the goals of our department. Each year, new ideas come up for ways to improve the student experience, the research environment, curricular development, and so on. We also learn from our alumni about what we are doing right […]

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March 1, 2017 at 8:00 amNews