Laura MacManus-Spencer, assistant professor of chemistry, recently received a Single Investigator Cottrell College Science Award in the amount of $43,036 from Research Corporation. The title of her proposal is “A mechanistic investigation of the role of suspended particles on the photochemical degradation of emerging contaminants in surface waters.”
Michael Vineyard, the Frank and Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Physics, is co-author of a recent article in Physical Review Letters, titled “Precise Measurement of the Neutron Magnetic Form Factor GMn in the Few-GeV2 Region.” This paper reports on the results of an experiment performed with the Large Acceptance Spectrometer in Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Va., that provides important information about the motion of quarks inside the neutron. The experiment was proposed to the Program Advisory Committee at Jefferson Lab by Professor Vineyard and Will Brooks, a research professor at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María in Chile and formerly a Jefferson Lab staff scientist.
A photograph by Martin Benjamin, professor of visual arts, was published on the cover of Thoroughbred Times’ Jan. 31 issue. The photo was of 2008 and 2009 Horse of the Year (annual Eclipse Awards) Curlin with his owner after an early morning workout at Saratoga Racetrack’s Okalahoma Training Center. In addition, a three-column wide Benjamin photo of former Senate Majority leader Joseph Bruno was published in the Jan. 24 issue of The New York Daily News. Two of Benjamin’s photographs from the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz were included in an exhibition “All Hot and Bothered,” curated by Ariel Shanberg of the Center for Photography at Woodstock and Brian Wallace, curator at the Dorsky Museum. The exhibition of 35 photographs was held in the museum’s Howard Greenberg Family Gallery.