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Friday, October 5, 2018 - Vol. 119 Issue 20
AWARD-WINNING STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY. SERVING MACOMB SINCE 1905.
New scanning electron microscope unveiled in Currens Hall
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Associate Professor of Geology Thomas Hegna (left) unveils the capability of the new microscope located in Currens Hall and University officals cut the ribbon to symbolize the opening of usage for the microscope (right).
By Leah Murphy courier staff
On Monday, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held in Currens Hall for a new scanning electron microscope (SEM). The SEM installation was completed in mid-August. “The purchase was funded by a National Science Foundation grant from their Major Research Instrumenta-
tion program,” Dr. Thomas Hegna, one of the professors responsible for purchasing the microscope, said in an email. “It took three years of submitting the grant to get it funded. It took about six months after the grant was funded to make a decision as to which brand/model of SEM to purchase.” The professors responsible for purchasing the SEM are Dr. Thomas Hegna, Associate
Professor of Geology, Brian Bellott, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Andrea Porras-Alfaro, Associate Professor of Biology. Hegna, Bellott and Porras-Alfaro all had a hand in writing the grant that funded the SEM purchase. Hegna and Bellott worked together meeting with vendors and comparing manufacturer prices during the SEM purchasing process. The driving reason behind
the purchasing of the scanning electron microscope was straightforward. A number of faculties on campus do research on small objects, and the SEM allows users to see objects at higher magnifications than a normal microscope would allow. “The SEM allows us to visualize very tiny objects with down to the nanometer-scale resolution,” Hegna said. “We will be able to see cellular
structures, and the structure of rocks and fossils that are normally invisible to the human eye. A normal light microscope, or even our eyes, utilizes light, photon, to see. The SEM uses electrons instead, which gives a superior resolution and depth of field.
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'One Man, Two Guvnors' plays in Hainline theatre this weekend By Chance Darby courier staff
DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE
"One Man, Two Guvnors" will be showiing in the Hainline Theatre located in Browne Hall until Sunday.
The Western Illinois University Department of Theatre and Dance will be hosting a performance of “One Man, Two Guvnors” under the direction of Western Professor DC Wright, with musical direction by Associate Professor Kitty Karn Wednesday through Sunday. The performances start on Wednesday and will run until Sunday. Performances from Wednesday to Friday are to start at 7:30 p.m. The final showing is at 2 p.m. Sunday. Western students are allowed in for free with a valid
student ID. General admission is $15 dollars and the show will be $13 dollars for students and seniors. The play written by Richard Bean takes place in Brighton, England in 1963. An adaptation of the Italian “Servant of Two Masters," “One Man, Two Guvnors” is a comedic show is about Francis Henshall, a currently unemployed musician. After being fired from a skiffle band and in search of work, he finds himself employed by small-time gangster, Roscoe Crabbe. Crabbe is in town to collect a fee from his fiancé's gangster father. Roscoe however, is really Rachel, posing
as her own dead brother. She however, is in love with Stanley Stubbers, her brother's killer, and the man who also serves as Henshall’s other guvnor or boss. Francis goes out of his way to serve both bosses hoping they don’t conflict or any issues arise. But with the distractions of a pneumatic bookkeeper, a self-important actor, and select members of the criminal fraternity, not to mention his own mammoth appetite, to contend with, he wonders how long can he keep them apart without them knowing.
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