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NEWS RELEASE
-- For Immediate Release --
Date: April 25, 2008
Contact: Doug Lau, Director
of Marketing & Public Relations
Physics
students speak at space science conference
Two
Castleberry’s topic was “Why
starships won’t use rocket propulsion” and Laws presented his ideas on
“Artificial gravity during starship voyages.” Both developed colorful and
striking sequences of graphics to illustrate their points to an audience of
NASA specialists, planetologists, astrosociologists,
anthropologists, artists and musicians.
“The conference was amazing,” said
Castleberry. “It was great to interact with people, who are involved with the
space program. The majority of the group was older and I think that they were
pleased to have younger students express a deep interest in their field.”
Laws agreed by saying, “The
conference was real spectacular. Everyone was welcoming, encouraging, and
interested in hearing what we had to say. It was stimulating to speak to
scientists of their caliber.”
The students were enrolled this past
semester in
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News
Release No. 044-08
April
25, 2008
For
Immediate Release
Attachment:
Photo of Wim Laws (foreground) and Matt Castleberry
in the
