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By Jennifer Shutt Bowie, BSJ ’94, MSC ’99 From Compass College of Arts & Sciences alum Robert Ackley has contributed $5 million to The Ohio University Foundation to benefit students, faculty, and programs in the departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Physics & Astronomy. The estate gift represents the largest […]

  By Amanda Biederman NQPI editorial intern Ohio University Professor of Physics & Astronomy and Nanoscale & Quantum Phenomena Institute member Saw-Wai Hla recently demonstrated simultaneous operation of hundreds of synchronized molecular rotors that, through dipole interactions based on carefully tailored positive and negative forces at different points within the […]

Dr. Alexander Govorov, has been named the 2016 Ohio University Distinguished Professor. “Sasha is one of the most collaborative faculty members we have at Ohio University,” says Dr. David Ingram, Professor and Chair of Physics & Astronomy. “He works with both experimentalists and theorists from physics and other fields such […]

By Jamison Lahman Physics & Astronomy PACE writer The Physics & Astronomy Department welcomes a new faculty member to the Athens campus this fall. Dr. Zachary Meisel, Assistant Professor, joins the department and the Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics after completing postdoctoral research at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. He obtained […]

Sky & Telescope quoted Dr. Douglas Clowe, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Ohio University, in an article titled “Does a Fifth Force Permeate the Universe?” Last year nuclear physicists in Hungary were running an experiment, watching excited beryllium-8 atoms’ radioactive decay, when they saw something strange. These atoms […]

By Ryan Tumbleson ’20 HTC Engineering Physics and Electrical Engineering studying near Chicago I’m spending the summer at Argonne National Lab where I work under the supervision of Dr. Saw-Wai Hla, a professor of Physics & Astronomy and group leader in the Quantum & Energy Materials section at Argonne. I […]

 By Yonry Zhu (B.S. Engineering Physics, Class of 2017) I worked in Dr. Arthur Smith’s lab during summer 2015 and designed a pulsed laser deposition system for fabricating semiconducting thin films. The system is meant to be a test bed for components that will ultimately be integrated into an existing molecular […]