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The NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has hundreds of paid opportunities for students to come to the center, gain experience, and work with NASA personnel on authentic NASA projects each year. The center is currently recruiting for Summer 2020 internships. Eligible students must be enrolled full-time in a community […]

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Ohio University alum Dr. Jack Steiner (B.S. HTC Astrophysics, B.S. Applied Mathematics, 2006) has been named an Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow. This program, sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and administered by the Chandra X-Ray Center (CXC), is focused on research in […]

“A research project conducted by professors at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Ohio University recently returned to earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Capsule after spending a month in earth orbit on the International Space Station,” reports the Edwardsville (IL) Intelligencer. Darron Luesse, an associate professor in the department of biological […]

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor cold—nothing stopped the special FedEx delivery from Kennedy Space Center to Ohio University this morning, Feb. 18. The box labeled “Critical Space Item” was the only thing in the freezer truck, driven overnight by a two-person team of FedEx drivers, who encountered plenty […]

After more than a year of preparation, Ohio University’s Team Gravitron plants-and-gravity experiment launches for the International Space Station this week aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. As the Falcon blasts off at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, the Ground Control Team at Ohio University in Athens, […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt waited for it—the simple phrase that would signal one small step for Arabidopsis, one big step for mankind’s knowledge of how plants respond to gravity. “Ready for the science,” said the Kennedy Space Center engineer on July 9. Dr. Darren Luesse handed the engineer a small petri dish […]

Dr. Sarah Wyatt, Professor of Environmental & Plant Biology, presented “Plant gravitropic signal transduction: A network analysis leads to gene discovery” on a panel on Metabolism Related to Gravitropism at the 40th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Moscow, Russia. She also chaired a panel on Weightlessness and Hypergravity. The Wyatt Lab […]