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Hunt joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty after earning his Ph.D. at Cornell University and completing postdoctoral research at Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An experimental condensed matter physicist, Hunt studies the complex behavior matter exhibits in the quantum limit, including in two-dimensional materials. Hunt has received an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy and a Cottrell Scholar Award.<\/p>\n
Emma Falco DeBenedetti established the Falco DeBenedetti Professorship in 2013 in memory of her husband, Sergio DeBenedetti. DeBenedetti joined Carnegie Tech, now Carnegie Mellon, in 1949 and taught and conducted research at Carnegie Tech and Carnegie Mellon until he retired in 1984.
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Meyer joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty in 1993 after earning his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and completing postdoctoral work at the University of Z\u00fcrich. A nuclear and particle physicist, Meyer furthers our understanding of quantum chromodynamics through his research on the nuclear matter that makes up the universe. He has conducted research at labs in the United States and Europe and has been the spokesperson for the GlueX experiment at Jefferson Lab in Newport News, Virginia, since 2007.<\/p>\n
Meyer also serves as MCS\u2019s first associate dean for research. He previously served as the college\u2019s associate dean for faculty and graduate affairs. He has won the college\u2019s Julius Ashkin Teaching Award and the university\u2019s William H. and Francis S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching.<\/p>\n
Otto Stern was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1943 for his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton. Stern was a research professor of physics at Carnegie Tech.
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More than 120 scientists from around the world converged on Carnegie Mellon\u2019s campus in June to share the latest breakthroughs in nuclear and particle physics.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s a community of physicists interested in the interactions of mesons and nucleons,\u201d said Professor Reinhard Schumacher, who co-chaired the local organizing committee of the 15th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU). \u201cWe like to think of it as a boundary between nuclear and particle physics.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the course of five days, more than 100 presentations were given on leading topics in the field, including more than a dozen presentations by graduate students getting exposure to presenting at a major conference. Notably, several Carnegie Mellon alumni also presented their current work, including an opening talk by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Physics Sean Dobbs, a 2003 graduate.<\/p>\n
Schumacher and fellow co-chair Professor Curtis Meyer spent a year working with a local organizing committee made up of physicists at Carnegie Mellon and other area universities to pull together the conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cReinhard and I both felt that the conference was a big success,\u201d Meyer said.
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Have you ever noticed that when you\u2019re in the country, there seems to be more stars in the night sky than when you\u2019re in the city? The stars are still there, you just aren\u2019t able to see them due to the presence of other light from things like buildings, cars and streetlights.<\/p>\n
The inaugural Dark Skies Conference, held this past summer at Carnegie Mellon, sought to educate people about the harms of light pollution and how to go about remedying it.<\/p>\n
In 2012, Special Lecturer Diane Turnshek visited the Mars Desert Research Station out in the empty expanses of southern Utah. \u201cThe sky out there in the desert blew me away,\u201d she said. \u201cI just don\u2019t understand how people can live without seeing the stars.\u201d<\/p>\n
That trip inspired Turnshek’s longtime crusade against light pollution, with the Dark Skies Conference she organized being only the latest iteration of it.<\/p>\n
The conference brought together astronomers, urban planners, sleep researchers and others to discuss the effects of light pollution and how to fix them. Beyond just blotting out the stars, light pollution has been shown to affect human health, animal behavior and even trees. \u201cIt’s everybody’s problem,\u201d Turnshek noted. \u201cIt takes everybody to have a solution.\u201d
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