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J.D Nsingoi, 32, checks out a gallery show at Weber State’s Kimball Arts Center. Nsingoi, an Angola native and a University of Texas student, is at WSU for the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, at WSU through Saturday.

'There is so much to see' at research conference at WSU

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:59pm

OGDEN -- J.D. Nsingoi perused student projects in the Weber State University Kimball Arts Center gallery.

"Very interesting, I think," said Nsingoi, as he examined denim-covered mannequins covered with words, the creation of WSU student Jamie Reeve.

"There is so much to see here in three days," said Nsingoi, a native of Angola and a student at the University of Texas.

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Thousands to descend on Ogden for national undergrad research conference

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 6:31am

OGDEN — To get a mental grasp on the number of people coming to Ogden this Thursday through Saturday, think 2002 Olympic curling fans, then add a bunch more people.

That, vaguely speaking, is the size of the group coming to Weber State University for the 26th annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research.

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(ARIEL SCHALIT/The Associated Press) Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman poses for photographers during a news conference at the Haifa Technion, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.

Israeli wins chemistry Nobel for quasicrystals

Karl Ritter, Malin Rising The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 1:48pm

STOCKHOLM — Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for a discovery that faced skepticism and mockery, even prompting his expulsion from his research team, before it won widespread acceptance as a fundamental breakthrough.

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(PAUL SAKUMA/The Associated Press) Nobel Prizes winner for physics Saul Perlmutter smiles as he poses with his daughter’s telescope at his home in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 after hearing he had won. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said American Perlmutter would share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award with U.S.-Australian Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess. Working in two separate research teams during the 1990s, Perlmutter in one and Schmidt and Riess in the other, the scientists raced to map the universe’s expansion by analyzing a particular type of supernovas, or exploding stars.

Studies of universe’s expansion win physics Nobel

Karl Ritter, LOUISE NORDSTROM The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:36am

STOCKHOLM — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.

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(GAIL BURTON/The Associated Press) In this Sept. 19, 2008 handout photo provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, astronomer Adam Riess sits in his office at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says American Saul Perlmutter, U.S.-Australian citizen Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess share the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics. The trio were honored Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 “for the discovery of the acclerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.”

Md. prof shares Nobel over faster growing universe

Jessica Gresko The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:31am

WASHINGTON — A Johns Hopkins University professor was one of three scientists awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate, contrary to science’s conventional wisdom.

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