Thursday afternoon, the Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering will continue its “Take a Journey in Science” lecture series with “Let There Be Light: LED Applications from Lighting to Killing Pathogens,” featuring Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Patrick Kung. The lecture will be held at 2 p.m. on the first floor of Rodgers, just outside of the Nightingale Room.
“LEDs are used in almost every piece of technology we own,” said Logan Lundgren, a freshman majoring in computer science. “They are very helpful in not only illumination but also in relaying important information from devices. I am very interested to attend this lecture so I can gain some insight on this important technological innovation.”
The lecture, the second in a series of four events being hosted by the library this spring, will last about ten minutes and will be followed by a question and answer period with Dr. Kung.
“The ‘Take a Journey in Science’ program started at Rodgers Library for Science and Engineering in spring of 2014,” said John H. Sandy, organizer of the series at Rodgers.
“It was a big hit, so we decided to do it again in 2015,” he said. “It may become an annual event.”
Sandy says the program started with the goal of showcasing the research that various University of Alabama professors were engaged in.
“Judging from the experience we had with the program in 2014, UA faculty love to take the stage and talk directly to the UA community about their research,” he said.
Kung’s research has focused on killing bacteria using ultraviolet LEDs, an initiative encouraged by a $15,000 grant awarded to Kung’s team from the Environmental Protection agency, a research achievement that made Alabama headlines.
“The ‘Take a Journey in Science’ program dovetails nicely with the greater effort by campus administration and the leadership in the various colleges to advance research at The University of Alabama,” said Sandy.
The event is free and open to all members of The University of Alabama community. For more information regarding this lecture and future events in the series, visit lib.ua.edu/events.
