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Rowley Wins Praise at Poster Competition

Rowley Wins Praise at Poster Competition

Ohio University physics graduate student Joey Rowley was selected from a poster competition to give a talk at the 2019 National Nuclear Physics Summer School (NNPSS), held this year in Knoxville, TN. The NNPSS is a two-week series of lectures for graduate students from across the country in the field […]

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July 19, 2019 at 2:17 pmNews Research

Physicist Cultivates OHIO Alumni Ties at Research Workshop in China

Chen Ji and Charlotte Elster visit a grove of rare bamboo on display at the Wangjiang Pavilion Park, Chengdu, China.

It’s not every week you are given an opportunity to share the latest in nuclear physics research, take time to observe wild pandas in a nature preserve, and admire famous musical instruments from the 5th Century BC. Recently, nuclear physicist Charlotte Elster traveled to south-central China where she presented her research […]

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June 1, 2018 at 1:43 pmNews

OHIO Physicists Offer New Method for Understanding Nuclei

Ohio University physics doctoral student Matthew Burrows

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 […]

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March 6, 2018 at 1:05 pmResearch

Notre Dame Physicists Travel to Edwards Accelerator Lab to Study Nuclear Reactions in Stars

ND Doctoral Student Bryant Vande Kolk adds a pulser cable to a detector to test its time of flight signal.

  Ohio University Physics & Astronomy professors Drs. Carl Brune, Alexander Voinov, and Thomas Massey of the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics recently hosted a group of nuclear physicists from the University of Notre Dame for a week at the John C. Edwards Accelerator Laboratory. Notre Dame doctoral candidate […]

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October 4, 2017 at 3:26 pmResearch

Physics Student Publishes Nuclear Research Conducted at National Lab

Nuclear physics graduate student Andrea Richard

Ohio University physics doctoral student Andrea Richard published an article about understanding the structure of neutron-rich magnesium isotopes in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review C, a peer-reviewed journal covering leading research in nuclear physics. Her paper, “Strongly coupled rotational band in 33Mg,” describes her research on the ground-state rotational band […]

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August 10, 2017 at 12:40 pmResearch

Glidden Visiting Professor Investigates Exotic and Extreme Nuclei

Glidden Visiting Professor Investigates Exotic and Extreme Nuclei

By Jamison Lahman, PACE writer and Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy  Ohio University’s 2016-17 Visiting Glidden Professor Dr. Andreas Nogga seeks to understand more about the forces holding atomic nuclei together.  As one of the leading few-body theoretical physicists, he studies the strong nuclear force, one of the four fundamental […]

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January 11, 2017 at 7:30 amNews

Physics Alum Cody Parker Conducts Experiment at Accelerator Lab

Cody Parker

Physics & Astronomy alum Cody Parker spent five days recently conducting experiments at Ohio University’s Edwards Accelerator Lab. Parker is a post-doctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center in Cambridge. Parker graduated in 2016 with a Ph.D. in Physics from the College of […]

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October 28, 2016 at 3:58 pmAlumni News Research