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Dr. Heather Crawford, Adjunct Professor of Physics & Astronomy, and several graduate students traveled to the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University to participate in an experiment studying the very neutron-rich Carbon isotopes (16,18,20C) by measuring the states populated in proton-knockout reactions from neutron-rich nitrogen. The experiment […]

Last summer, Helen Cothrel ’15HTC Physics worked at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, to study the Earth’s ozone layer. She received funding through an Ernest F. Hollings Scholarship, a two-year appointment with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Education. The title of her NOAA project […]

Two summers ago, after traveling west across the continental United States to attend and perform in the Zeltsman Marimba Festival in Arcata, Calif., Natalie Klco ’15 HTC Physics wrote about the beauty she found in marimba music and festival performers who displayed clarity and oneness between their instruments, their bodies, and their minds. In summer 2014 she headed east across the Atlantic to […]

Dr. Carl Brune, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, authored three chapters in an Ohio Biological Survey publication, Amphibians of Ohio. He is the only non-zoologist among the authors. One of Brune’s hobbies is to study snakes, lizards and other reptiles or amphibians. He can often be found on weekends taking hikes […]

By David Ingram Professor and Chair of Physics & Astronomy We are in our third year on semesters since 1967, and we remain an active and vital environment as we help students realize their potential and advance the frontiers of science. Our alumni are testimony to the past success of our […]

Dr. Hee-Jong Seo is an astrophysicist who joined Physics & Astronomy in January 2015. She is a member of Ohio University’s Astrophysical Institute. “I was born in Busan, South Korea. Due to external circumstances, I pursued my education in a college of pharmacy in the Busan National University instead of […]

Dr. Ryan Chornock is an astrophysicist who joined Physics & Astronomy in Fall 2014. His most recent position was as a postdoc at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is a member of the Ohio University Astrophysical Institute. “I spent most of my childhood in the northern Virginia suburbs of […]