Physics & Astronomy Alumni News
Recent Alumni News:
Alumni News | Kumar Named General Manager at Transition Networks
Ohio University alumna Anita Kumar was promoted to General Manager of Transition Networks, says a news release by Communications Systems, Inc. Kumar earned an M.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from the College of Arts & Sciences at OHIO. She started at has been with […]
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Read MoreChair’s Message | Welcoming Alumna from Malaysia, Celebrating Open House
January 2020 Alumni e-newsletter Greetings to friends and alumni of the Department of Physics & Astronomy. Fall was a busy term. In October one of our alums, Professor Zainuriah Hassan (Ph.D. 1998, Marty Kordesch), came all the way from Malaysia to receive the College of Arts & Sciences Notable Alumni […]
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Read MorePhysicists Identify Ways to Unmask Elusive Quarks within Neutron Stars
What form of matter resides in the cores of neutron stars? A team of astrophysicists from Ohio University and Kent State University has published the latest in a series of articles about neutron star interiors, “Treating quarks within neutron stars,” in Physical Review D, a journal of the American Physical […]
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Read MoreOHIO Today Honors Harold Brown, One of the Last Living Tuskegee Airmen
Ohio Today honors Lt. Col. Harold Brown, an Ohio University alumnus who flew a P-51 Mustang fighter in World War II, spent time in a German POW camp, then returned home to begin a career that would eventually find him retiring as vice president of academic affairs at Columbus State […]
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Read MoreNotable Alumni | Andreas Weichselbaum Models Quasiparticles That Could Be Future of Quantum Computing
Editor’s Note: The College of Arts & Sciences Notable Alumni Awards honor alumni for broad career accomplishments, commitment to community service, and valuable contributions to Ohio University and the College of Arts & Sciences. Andreas Weichselbaum ’04 Ph.D. Physics Dr. Andreas Weichselbaum is working on tiny correlated puzzles in material […]
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Read MoreNotable Alumni | Zainuriah Hassan Pioneers Scientific Advances in U.S., Malaysia
Editor’s Note: The College of Arts & Sciences Notable Alumni Awards honor alumni for broad career accomplishments, commitment to community service, and valuable contributions to Ohio University and the College of Arts & Sciences. Zainuriah Hassan ’98 Ph.D. in Physics Dr. Zainuriah Hassan was an important member of the wide […]
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Read MorePhysics Alumnus Returns to Lead Workshop on Software Design
By Rachael Beardsley NQPI Editorial Intern Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute 2019 Fall Newsletter Ohio University Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute hosted physics alumnus Dr. Greg Petersen, who lead a workshop on Aug. 5-7 for graduate and undergraduate students titled “Modern Software Design for Physicists” aimed at teaching modern design […]
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Read MoreJakkala Reflects on Physics Graduate Program Strengths
By Kate Nichols NQPI editorial intern Dr. Pratheesh Jakkala graduated from Ohio University with his Ph.D. in physics in 2016. His research focused on the fabrication of solar cells and III-V Nitrides using a sputtering method and characterization of solar cells and thin films. Jakkala has most recently served as […]
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Read MoreKhosravi Khorashad Receives NQPI Outstanding Dissertation Award
By Ryan Flynn NQPI editorial intern Nanoscale and Quantum Phenomena Institute 2019 Spring Newsletter NQPI is proud to announce Larousse Khosravi Khorashad as the recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Dissertation Award. Khosravi Khorashad received his Ph.D. from Ohio University in 2017. His research area is a combination of computational physics and […]
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Read MoreRamakrishnan Receives Honorary Degree from OHIO
Ohio University President M. Duane Nellis conferred an OHIO Honorary Doctor of Science upon Nobel Prize laureate and OHIO alumnus Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan. “A graduate of Ohio University, Venki Ramakrishnan is President of the Royal Society and Group Leader at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, […]
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