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PROFESSOR PLACES FIRST IN PHYSICS PHOTO CONTEST |
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November 18, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Twenty-five students and three professors attended the physics honorary Sigma Pi Sigma’s quadrennial congress titled “Scientific Citizenship: Connecting Physics and Society” on Nov. 6-8. The conference explored the greater role of the physicist in the world.
Among the attending professors was Dr. Glenn Marsch, associate professor of physics at Grove City College. Marsch participated in the conference’s photography competition, and took first place with one of his photographs.
The conference was held at Fermilab, which, located west of Chicago in Batavia, Ill., is one of the world’s premier high-energy physics labs.
“Until Europe’s Large Hadron Collider comes completely online next year, Fermilab’s Tevatron accelerator still holds the record for creating the highest-energy particle beams produced by humans,” Marsch said.
Marsch submitted six photographs. “Fallen,” a photograph of a Sugar Maple leaf, won first place and “Transparencies,” an image of a flower in a glass vase, received an honorable mention award in the General Science category. This was his first photography competition.
“I enjoyed the experience of entering an art competition, made more interesting in that Fermilab, a world-class research facility, has artists on staff and the institution deeply values art as a significant part of human understanding,” Marsch said.
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