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For Immediate Release
February 19, 2020


Physics Whiz Earns Second Place at National Conference

Austin DeMurley captured second place at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM held in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.

Suffolk County Community College physics major Austin DeMurley captured second place at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM held in Washington, D.C. earlier this month.

Austin, of Holbrook, took the honors for his research poster Design of Power & Controls Circuits and Experiment Enclosures for Cosmic Ray Muon Detectors. The muon is an elementary particle similar to the electron and are made when high-energy particles called cosmic rays slam into atoms in Earth's atmosphere. Muons travel at close to the speed of light and shower Earth from all angles.

Suffolk has been sending students who have been accepted for their research presentations to the Emerging Researchers National Conference the past seven years.

The Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development (HRD).

The objectives of the conference are to help undergraduate and graduate students to enhance their science communication skills and to better understand how to prepare for science careers in a global workforce.

Learn more about Science Technology Engineering and Math at Suffolk County Community College, here: https://www.sunysuffolk.edu/stem/

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