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Wednesday 9.12.2012 | MACE & CROWN | A2
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Aniko Bodroghkozy Discusses Television and its Impact on the Civil Rights Movement By: Andrew Tompkins Staff Writer Mace & Crown
Distinguished guest speaker Aniko Bodroghkozy, Ph.D., kicked off the new school year as the first speaker in the ODU College of Arts and Letters Colloquium, discussing television and its impact on the Civil Rights Movement. Bodroghkozy, a published author and associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virgin-
ia, spoke before a crowd of about 30 students and faculty members Friday, Sept. 7, at the University Theatre. Her lecture explored the topic of her latest book, “Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement”, which addresses the resounding impact that news mediums had on encouraging the Civil Rights Movement, as well as the bias that was prevalent in the news during the period. “What caused the Civil Rights Movement were local regional grassroots Continued on A3
Into the QCD By: Justin McLawhorn Contributing Writer Mace & Crown Newport News based Jefferson Sciences Association has awarded Christian Shultz, doctoral student of theoretical nuclear physics, a research fellowship for the 2012-2013 academic year. He will use to support his research into exotic mesons using lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD). “QCD…describes interactions between quarks and gluons. These are the things that make up the protons and neutrons inside of an atom,” said Shultz. Gluons are the “glue” that hold quarks together. Incorporating the lattice method to QCD, which in essence “refers to the fact that we do mathematical calculations on some of the world’s largest available super computers,” allows one to “basically put the universe in a box…calculate things in this box…and discretize it,” said Shultz. “The idea is, now that everything is inside of this box, they become finite and you can actually compute it.” Shultz is directing much of his research to the properties of hybrid mesons, exotic combinations of a quark-antiquark pair and a gluonic excitation. “My collaborators and I are working towards predicting some of the properties of these exotic combinations from lattice before they’ve been measured experimentally,” said Shultz. He is particularly interested in these because they “are allowed within the framework of QCD, but have yet to be experimentally observed.” “QCD is difficult, where we can’t just put the pen to paper and figure something out,” said Shultz. Using the lattice as a tool, “we found that they do exist.” The Jefferson Lab, as it is better known, is attempting to find these hybrid mesons experimentally to shed light on the role of “glue” in QCD in the upcoming Gluonic Excitation Experiment (GlueX). In it’s conclusion, the experiment “will inform us if we’re re-
Physics Ph.D. Student Awarded Research Fellowship
ally getting the physics right or if we need to rethink the underlying theory,” said Shultz. In conjunction with his current research, Shultz extends his scientific exploration to the spectroscopy, the study of the interaction between matter and radiated energy. His interest derives from the imbalance of electronvolts in subatomic particles, which leads him to the conclusion that something else exists inside of a proton, aside from quarks, antiquarks, and gluons. The electronvolt, or eV, is a unit of energy, but is commonly used to describe the “weight” of a subatomic particle in relation to its energy. “The proton weighs about a GeV [gigaelectronvolt, or one billion electronvolts],” said Shultz. “The quarks in QCD only weigh about five MeV [megaelectronvolt, or one million electronvolts], so it doesn’t really make sense.” Shultz was one of seven students awarded a fellow ship, as selected by the committee chaired by JSA Board Director June Matthews of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He will receive half of an academic year research assistant stipend, plus up to $4,000 in supplemental funds to cover additional expenses, such as travel. ODU will match the research assistant stipend. He noted that while the applications of this research may not be exactly translatable, the overall effect of understanding quantum mechanics has tremendous implications. “CCD cameras, the semiconductors in your phone, this laptop–all of these things would be impossible without understanding how these things work,” said Shultz. Shultz received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Union College in New York in 2008, and a master’s in physics from ODU in 2011. As a child, Shultz said he was “always wondering how things worked. His inspiration for becoming a physicist is the “simplistic beauty” of things when physics is done correctly. “With each level of physics, you get a better approximation of what the real world is doing.”