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Discovery of Twisted Spins in Nanoscale Flatland Merits Accelerated Publish Date

Discovery of Twisted Spins in Nanoscale Flatland Merits Accelerated Publish Date

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Diego Mastrogiuseppe, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, and faculty members Dr. Nancy Sandler and Dr. Sergio Ulloa, have discovered a new way to control the interaction of magnetic impurities at the nanoscale level. The article describing their work has […]

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November 13, 2014 at 1:00 amResearch

Storm Chasing Experience Open to Meteorology Students

Storm Chasing Experience Open to Meteorology Students

Open to juniors, seniors and graduate students who are majoring or minoring in meteorology, a real-life Storm Chasing Experience takes place May 5-12 in the Central Plains. After completing coursework on supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes or mesoscale meteorology, students will spend one week traveling around Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas where they […]

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November 11, 2014 at 1:00 pmNews

Science Teamwork Is Like Dancing a Tango

Science Teamwork Is Like Dancing a Tango

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy While in Mainz, Germany, last spring, Jean Andrews, a special projects assistant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, paid a visit to the Johannes Gutenberg University where she interviewed theoretical physicist and Ohio University alum Dr. Jairo Sinova ’94B.S. HTC Physics. The newly […]

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November 4, 2014 at 4:00 amAlumni News

Voice of America Quotes Ingram on Lockheed Martin Fusion Project

Dr. David Ingram

In a report on “Lockheed’s Fusion Reactor Plan Draws Skepticism,” Voice of America quoted Dr. David Ingram, Professor and Chair of Physics & Astronomy, in response to a Lockheed Martin Skunk Works report that it is pursuing a 3-year program to develop a truck-sized fusion reactor that could be used […]

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October 28, 2014 at 7:40 pmFaculty in the News In the News

USDOE Grant Provides Additional Security at Edwards Accelerator

USDOE Grant Provides Additional Security at Edwards Accelerator

By Gretchen Gregory From Compass The Office of Risk Management and Safety has been awarded two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy totaling $210,000 to upgrade security systems at the Konneker Research Center and Edwards Accelerator Laboratory. “These additional security measures will allow continued research with restricted equipment and […]

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October 2, 2014 at 4:04 pmNews

Cosmos to Isotopes: Three New Faculty Explore the Universe

Dr. Hee-Jong Seo. Photo by Rob Hardin

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy The Department of Physics & Astronomy welcomes three new faculty members—an experimental nuclear physicist and two astrophysicists. By coincidence, two are from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California: Dr. Heather Crawford, an experimental nuclear physicist, and Dr. Hee-Jong Seo, an astrophysicist. Dr. Ryan Chornock, also […]

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October 1, 2014 at 12:37 pmNews

Botte: New Process Allows Coal to Produce Graphene

By Angelita Faller At 200 times stronger than steel and only one atom thick, graphene is both the hardest existing substance and the thinnest material ever obtained. Graphene is light, bendable, transparent, and extremely conductive. “Graphene has excellent properties. The market applications are enormous,” said Gerardine Botte, the Russ Professor […]

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September 25, 2014 at 11:49 amResearch