@OSUAstro

Exploring the mysteries of the Universe

 Columbus, OH
astronomy.osu.edu
Joined March 2014
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Cosmic rays could offer scientists another way to track and study violent tornadoes and other severe weather phenomena, a new study suggests. @OSUPhysics @OSUAstro news.osu.edu/a-cosmic-tool-f…

A cosmic tool for studying twisters and other severe storms

Cosmic rays could offer scientists another way to track and study violent tornadoes and other severe weather phenomena, a new study suggests. By combining local weather data with complex astrophysics...

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Anna Voelker@Anna_Voelker
1 Mar 2021
As an entrepreneur, educator, poet (check out video for astro #poetry!) former #NASA space weather forecaster, and astrobiology researcher, I am thrilled to enter the #inspiration4contest! My business, Making Space for All, promotes accessible science: makingspaceforall.com/
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Scott Gaudi@bsgaudi
6 Jan 2021
So proud of Samson for being selected as one of the first 10 #ExoExplorers! Also a shout out to fellow OSU graduate student @CapricePhillips for being selected! Go @OSUAstro! exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/exo…
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Apply for a CCAPP Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ohio State! Pass along this opportunity to all who might be interested! @ProfJohnBeacom @osuccapp @OSUAstro ccapp.osu.edu/about/jobs-and…
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The Department of Astronomy welcomes Josh Carroll as our new ASCTech Senior Systems Manager. Welcome Josh!!!!
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WestFest 2020 was virtual this year! We had a week of online programs that reached across 8 countries! Thanks everyone who attended and presented at WestFest who made this possible. #OSUWestFest
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. @OSUAstro @OSUPhysics
PERbites@PERbites
4 Nov 2020
Are your students using effective study skills? Today's paper suggests they are not but spending a class period teaching good study skills does improve how they study. It may also reduce the number of students failing the course. #STEMed #iteachchem perbites.org/2020/11/04/meta…

Metacognitive Training May Improve General Chemistry Student’s Study Strategies

Title: I realized what I was doing was not working: the influence of explicit teaching of metacognition on students’ study strategies in a general chemistry I course† Authors: Caroline Z. Muteti,...

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Today is the day! Get out and VOTE! Be heard! Support science!
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Don't forget our event TONIGHT. Exoplanet talks starting at 7pm and our Star Trek Panel at 8pm. We also have our costume contest! More info and registration at astronomy.osu.edu/events/mon…
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This sculpture is right between Smith and McPherson Labs. The Department of Astronomy @OSUAstro is on the 4th floor in the background of this picture..
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Scott Gaudi and Samson Johnson of @OSUAstro spoke with @SmithsonianMag about the potential behind the new @NASARoman telescope. "The galaxy could be teeming with these free-floating planets, or maybe none." smithsonianmag.com/science-n…

How NASA’s New Telescope Will Help Astronomers Discover Free-Floating Worlds

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to detect small, distant planets without stars

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Another #NobelPrize for Black Holes! If you are looking for an #iteachphysics activity to celebrate the discovery with your students check out our @p5xjs Black Holes activity youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
6 Oct 2020
BREAKING NEWS: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
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Lewis Haley@LewAstro
13 Sep 2020
Replying to @j_tharindu @OSUAstro
No, thank you. You and your teams' work is really inspiring to a budding astrophysicist. I'm coming, leave some discoveries for me to find. 😉
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Congratulations are in order! Ann S. Tuttle Citizenship Award goes to Emily Griffith for her outstanding commitment to education, outreach, and service in the past year!!!!
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Congratulations to BOTH Sanskriti Das (@dassanskriti1) and Tharindu Jayasinghe (@j_tharindu) who have received the Alan K. Markowitz Observational Astronomy Prize.
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Congratulations to Tharindu Jayasinghe (@TharindJ) who has received the Ann S. Tuttle Paper Prize for his 2019 paper "The ASAS-SN catalogue of variable stars - II. Uniform classification of 412 000 known variables."
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Drumroll please!!!! The OSU Astronomy Graduate Awards for 2020
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First first-author paper by an @AstroUDP Ph.D. student (program started 2019) posted in arXiv: Zewdie et al. (2020), arxiv.org/abs/2009.03800. Dejene made a short video explaining the the paper: youtu.be/oxfjbqMqeQs (inspired by @OSUAstro coffee brief)
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Very true! David's emails require at least one cup of coffee/tea to get through.
Annika Peter@ProfAnnikaPeter
4 Sep 2020
True of all professors not named David Weinberg. Amiright, @OSUAstro ?
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