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/
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
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#iteachchemperbites.org/2020/11/04/meta…
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…
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..
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.
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!!!!
Congratulations to BOTH Sanskriti Das (@dassanskriti1) and Tharindu Jayasinghe (@j_tharindu) who have received the Alan K. Markowitz Observational Astronomy Prize.
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."
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)