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Special Projects Assistant Jean Andrews received the Physics & Astronomy Outstanding Staff Member Award for 2013-14. Andrew’s service was integral in the migration of departmental web content into the College of Arts & Sciences format, using this as an opportunity to highlight student learning. She has enhanced communication within the […]

 By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Why Be an Undergraduate Summer Intern? “To learn by experience!” – Samantha Thrush “I created my first successful nanostructure!” – Chris Wolfe “It allowed me to do something that may help advance our scientific knowledge.” – Ryan Goetz What Are Some Recent Intern Experiences? […]

By Samantha Thrush B.S. HTC Astrophysics, Class of 2015 I spent my summer doing research on injecting simulated continuous gravitational waves into real gravitational wave data at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis. My funding came from a National Science Foundation […]

It’s not every day you learn an asteroid bears your name. This month, Dr. Thomas Statler, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, attended the triennial “Asteroids, Comets, Meteors” conference in Helsinki, Finland, the leading international gathering in the field of small Solar System bodies, where it’s a tradition to announce new […]

By Jean Andrews Physics & Astronomy Dr. Tomoyasu Tanaka, age 94, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Ohio University, passed away in May in his native Japan. He was a highly respected theoretical physicist, loving parent to five children, husband, and son. “Professor Tanaka was a wonderful colleague. He was interesting […]

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On Feb 22, 2014, six undergraduate presenters at the Society of Physics Students Research Conference at Ohio University provided an overview of their individual research projects undertaken during and since the previous summer, which ranged in scale from subatomic to galactic sizes, and applications from micro-scale devices to new semiconductors. […]