About 250 physicists and physics students from the Great Lakes region and beyond converged at Case Western Reserve University to discuss innovations in their profession.

Case President Edward M. Hundert welcomed the current and aspiring physicists during the recent "Physicists Get Down to Business" conference hosted by the university.

The gathering of physicists was for the fall meeting of the Ohio Section of the American Physical Society (OS/APS). The Ohio Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers co-sponsored the meeting
and added educational workshops and demonstrations during the program.

Eighty different papers on research and teaching were presented during the conference, with some
30 by graduate and undergraduate students.

In addition, Philip Taylor, Case professor of physics, was awarded the William Fowler Prize, a prestigious honor that the OS/APS confers for members who have established physics careers of research excellence.

Other highlights included lectures on "An MBA in an Hour" by David Deeds and William Schulze from the Case Weatherhead School of Management and "The Art of Changing the Brain" by James Zull from the university's College of Arts and Sciences.

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