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Julia Sánchez-Dorado, The Aesthetics of Science: Beauty, Imagination and Understanding, The British Journal of Aesthetics , Volume 63, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 132–135, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayab039

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The publication of The Aesthetics of Science invites us to reflect, beyond the range of individual arguments advanced in it, on the general aims that motivate the production of an edited volume like this.

There seems to be a spectrum of possible commitments when one addresses the role of aesthetic values in science. At one extreme, the spheres of the aesthetic and the epistemic are completely separated from one another, with no meaningful interaction between them. So if allusions to the beauty of a theory are to be found in science, these should be understood as merely subjective, emotional responses of scientists in the context of discovery, without standing on the epistemic justification of the theory. At the other extreme, aesthetic and epistemic values belong to the same kind; they are indistinguishable from each other in practice. In this view, references to the beauty of a scientific theory are understood as entailing an epistemic assessment—that is, they are taken as appraisals of the good performance or empirical adequacy of the theory. These two extreme views have something important in common: they render the project of further examining the role of aesthetics in scientific practice a futile task. As one disregards aesthetic considerations and the other translates them into epistemic assessments, they fail to recognize as a genuine philosophical problem the fact that, throughout the history of science, model evaluation and theory choice have been persistently formulated in terms of elegance, harmony, beauty or the capacity to inspire awe.

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Danielle Martin, a Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences, will defend her thesis titled “Tracking nuclear generating station emissions and fossil fuel contributions using tree rings in southern Ontario, Canada” on Tuesday, March 26 at 1 PM., in CRN 207.

The examination committee includes Melanie Pilkington, Chair; Michael Pisaric, Supervisor; Helene Løvstrand Svarva, External Examiner (NTNU University Museum); and Liette Vasseur and Kevin Turner, Committee Members.

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At michigan state university, frib graduate students shine with award-winning posters at particle accelerator conferences, graduate students conduct thesis research at national labs through accelerator science and engineering traineeship opportunities.

Two Michigan State University (MSU) graduate students with FRIB’s Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (ASET) program won separate awards for their posters at North American and international particle accelerator conferences last summer. Through ASET, both students are now conducting thesis research at national laboratories.

Madison Howard

Madison Howard, a third-year physics graduate student and part of the beam instrumentation and diagnostics group at FRIB, won a bronze award for best poster at the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Howard’s most recent work has focused on diode physics and emission physics. Her winning poster, titled “Studying the Emission Characteristics of Field Emission Cathodes with Various Geometries,” showed preliminary results from evaluating different field emission cathodes across varying pulse lengths. The team study is ongoing at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), where she currently is doing her thesis work.

“Getting the bronze award gave me a large sense of pride,” said Howard. “It felt very rewarding to be recognized for the hard work that we have put into this project.”

She credits ASET for helping her land at the national laboratory. “If it wasn't for this program, I wouldn't have known about the opportunities at LANL,” she said. “Not only did ASET give me this opportunity at LANL, but the courses and the professors that are part of the program have given me the tools I need to succeed.”

“Madison’s poster and research on high-current, high-emissivity cathode materials is providing a basis for quantifying the beam quality extracted from these materials,” said FRIB Beam Instrumentation and Measurements Department Manager Steve Lidia, who is Howard’s adviser. “She has produced initial, high-quality work that deserved the bronze award. She brings an experimentalist’s perspective to her work and enjoys reducing complicated activities to the essentials needed for better understanding. This promotes the ASET program with our partner laboratories and forges stronger relationships to build the next generation technical workforce.”

After completing their PhD studies, both students would like to continue conducting research at a national laboratory. Gonzalez-Ortiz plans to continue to his research in accelerator science, while Howard wants to continue working with emission physics and electron injectors.

Cristhian Gonzalez-Ortiz

Fourth-year physics graduate student Cristhian Gonzalez-Ortiz was awarded the best student poster prize at the 2022 International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC) in Bangkok, Thailand. His poster, “Third-order Resonance Compensation at the FNAL Recycler Ring,” showed how a specific combination of sextupole magnets can suppress dangerous resonances occurring in circular accelerators under certain operational conditions.

Gonzalez-Ortiz began working on suppression of resonances at FRIB in 2021 before moving his work to the accelerator complex at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) in Illinois last August.

He said he is gratified have had his work recognized at IPAC, especially after working through a global pandemic. “Winning this award meant a lot to me, not only because it acknowledges my own hard work, but it also recognizes the hard work of MSU faculty and staff and their support of their grad students,” he said.

Gonzalez-Ortiz is also enrolled in the ASET program. “ASET placed me at Fermilab and gave me the opportunity to work with world-class experts at a national laboratory. I've gained relevant skills and made important connections in the accelerator physics field,” he said.

“Cristhian is a highly motivated graduate student to work on thesis research in the most challenging accelerator physics tasks,” said adviser and FRIB Associate Director for Accelerator Physics Peter Ostroumov, who is Gonzalez-Ortiz’s adviser. “Being an ASET student, he had the opportunity to evaluate possible thesis topics, including research areas covered by national laboratories. Cristhian’s poster at the conference was evaluated by top world experts in accelerator science. The IPAC award is very prestigious in the accelerator community.”

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The ASET program leverages unique campus-based equipment, systems, and experts at FRIB; extensive ASET faculty and research supports in several MSU academic programs; and collaboration resources at national laboratories including Brookhaven National Laboratory , FNAL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , LANL , and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory . The program supports graduate students in their studies for up to two years.

Offering a unique training opportunity for master’s and PhD students in physics, astronomy, and engineering, FRIB’s ASET program’s mission is to recruit students, provide training in accelerator science and engineering, and place them in national laboratories for further training and thesis research.

ASET students are trained and mentored by more than 20 MSU faculty members in addition to more than 30 PhD scientists and engineers working in ASET areas at FRIB.

Interested students may apply for the ASET program through the appropriate academic department at the following application sites:

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Michigan State University (MSU) operates the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) as a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), supporting the mission of the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics. Hosting what is designed to be the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator, FRIB enables scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes in order to better understand the physics of nuclei, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security and industry.

The  U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science  is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of today’s most pressing challenges. For more information, visit  energy.gov/science .

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Oprah Winfrey’s back, and she wants to talk about losing weight. Again. On Monday, Oprah’s ABC special , “Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution,” promised to answer some of the biggest questions around the new weight-loss drugs. The special was, as we call it in academia, a rich text. There were layers of history, with both Oprah and the intellectual history of bodies in pop culture. But, viewed at a distance and as a whole, the one-hour program was above all a harbinger of how the weight-loss industry is rebranding: Obesity is a disease, and — for the first time — it’s not your fault.

From the special’s outset, Oprah made the story about GLP-1 receptor agonists — Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro — a retelling of her own struggle with weight. Of course the public noticed last year when a remarkably thin Oprah emerged on red carpets. There was rampant speculation that she was on Ozempic. While Oprah never names which brand of GLP-1 she is taking, she confirmed again in this show that she is on a weight-loss drug.

That’s Oprah’s trademark: turning big political questions into a personal narrative of freedom and triumph. And it is this special’s raison d’être. Over and over again, deft production turns the thorny issue of weight-loss medicalization into (admittedly compelling) personal stories. But personal stories about prom dresses and self-esteem distract viewers from the inequality of obesity treatments that risk becoming luxury cosmeceuticals.

There is a war brewing between insurers and providers over who can get these drugs, and not even Oprah will be able to broker a resolution. True to her brand, she did not try.

What Oprah did try to do is finally write the ending to a story about bodies that she has been writing for almost 40 years. “The Oprah Winfrey Show” went into national syndication in 1986. I was 10 years old. That means I have been in a psychosocial relationship with Oprah’s weight-loss struggles for longer than I have been an adult.

In the 1980s, most of the Black women on television were either fair-skinned beauty queens like Vanessa Williams or darker-complexioned mother figures like Nell Carter. Oprah was not a thin beauty queen, but she also wasn’t the help. Engaging, articulate, and utterly in control, Oprah embodied possibilities. Along the way, she also introduced a new language about bodies. They could be sites of struggle and changing them could become a public ritual. The show’s 25-year run became a cultural textbook for remaking one’s self as Oprah lost weight, gained weight, pivoted from “skinny” to “fit” and took us along for every part of the ride.

This special reminded audiences that Oprah is remarkably, almost preternaturally, good at making compelling television for a broadcast audience. It was her narrative storytelling that turned “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” a talk show, into something more like long-form narrative. Each episode had a topic. The topics had range: the best vacations, how to know if your husband had cheated on you, reconciling with your racist mother-in-law after you have a biracial baby.

But Oprah also created a meta-narrative in the ongoing story of her weight. Would this be the day, the week, the show, the year that Oprah loves or hates her body?

When Oprah ended her talk show in 2011, she had settled into her body. But settling is not love. In that way, she was, as she had become during her career, a stand-in for millions of Americans. Chained to our bodies, destined to be wed to them, but never falling in love. We are at turns fat, not “fit,” overweight and obese. The acceptable terminology changes. It accommodates new fad diets — Atkins, Mediterranean, low-glycemic — and new morals around bodies. What has not changed is that weight loss is a booming business that seems to have no ceiling. Being fat can be hell. Selling to fat people is profitable.

Oprah knows this. She owned her title as the nation’s dieter in chief when she joined the board of WeightWatchers in 2015. Oprah-branded meals appeared in grocery stores. She even appeared in WeightWatchers commercials . The brand that pioneered meeting in strip mall storefronts and church banquet halls to be weighed in front of strangers may have felt a bit common for Oprah’s “live your best life” brand of almost-accessible luxury.

But, in the end, WeightWatchers could have just been the safest co-branding opportunity; the least noxious of branded diets partnered with the warmest face of diet culture. And, as she said in the TV special, Oprah believed that WeightWatchers’ point-counting system was the best pathway to a smaller body. For a reported $221 million or so gained by trading WeightWatchers stock, why wouldn’t she want to share that with all of us, too?

Then the new drugs came. They work on multiple physiological levels to help some people lose a moderate to a significant amount of weight. Expensive, hard to ignore, these new drugs promise us that weight loss can be more than a new diet. They promise to solve obesity.

Obesity is not merely about calories or self-control. It is about physiology and culture. This country has managed obesity as a moral failing because it will not solve the culture of inequality that makes it so easy for Americans to gain weight they would rather not have. The drugs’ price compounds obesity’s inequality problem. The people who might benefit from them the most are least likely to have medical access to them, culturally sensitive medical supervision to take them, the insurance approvals to subsidize their cost or the money to pay for them at full price when their insurance does not cover them. The new weight-loss drugs might help fight obesity, but only if people can afford them.

Even so, it is hard to overstate how much this has turned the fitness and weight-loss industries upside down. Self-help fitness gurus have long styled themselves priests in America’s Church of Fitness. They preach self-control, calorie deficits, supplements, cardio and strength training. But the truth is that the lithe, ultrafit bodies of people like Tracy Anderson, Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper have always not so tacitly been selling thinness. The structured programs based on discipline and shame become far less salable when clinical trials disprove their underlying thesis — diet and exercise alone do not work for everybody.

And then there is WeightWatchers. It is the corporate elder of the industry. After decades of convincing people that they could lose weight if they incorporated willpower and accountability, WeightWatchers is rebranding. It ended some in-person meetings, its mainstay, and purchased a GLP-1 provider . The new WeightWatchers also offers a GLP-1 program, a concession that it takes more than behavioral choices to lose weight.

Oprah says she donated her stake in WeightWatchers so she could produce this special without appearing to have a conflict of interest. Despite that, Sima Sistani, the chief executive of WeightWatchers, was a guest on the special. She pushed the new WeightWatchers story, which can be boiled down to: “It’s not your fault.” It seemed to me that companies like WeightWatchers that profited on the shame cycle of yo-yo dieting should start with, “I’m sorry.” But that’s the way of it when you are serving fat people. There is rarely an apology for serving them poorly.

Oprah herself used the “it’s not your fault” language to release individuals from the shame of fat bias. But it also does something else. It positions these GLP-1s as management drugs, like insulin for diabetics or hypertension medication for those with high blood pressure. Those are the kinds of drugs that insurance companies are compelled to subsidize.

It is hard to imagine a weight-loss revolution if Medicare continues to limit coverage. Currently the two brands of GLP-1 that are F.D.A. approved for only weight loss are underinsured. Two pharma reps who appeared on the special indicted insurance providers for denying drug coverage. Insurance providers will tell you that demand for the drugs and the prices that the pharma companies charge for them are unsustainable. The obesity crisis is a health financing crisis, just as much as anything else. We can’t solve one without solving the other.

But above all of this, the new weight-loss drugs offered something else to Oprah’s metanarrative. They offered the nation’s dieter in chief a chance to fulfill her show’s destiny — to finally create a body she can love. It was a payoff that some of her audience has perhaps waited 30 years to see. For others, it could be a letdown. A woman so successful that she redefined the term, not just for women, but specifically for Black women born to unglamorous means and expectations. If she cannot fall in love with her body at any size or shape, what hope is there for the rest of us?

In a way, it feels unfair to ask this of Oprah. She gave enough of herself in ushering us through our own national chaos about good bodies and bad bodies. It is unfair to blame her for popularizing diet culture. The Richard Simmonses, Suzanne Somerses, Jane Fondas and Susan Powters of the world deserve some credit. So, too, does the idea of a thin body as a moral body. It is an idea far older than Oprah. And it is an idea with a nasty racist and classist history. In some ways, it is a triumph of its own kind that a Black woman took a foundational idea of white supremacist thinking about aesthetic virtue and turned it into her own private fortune. I’m pretty sure there would have been a dieter in chief even if Oprah had never existed.

The ABC special doesn’t solve the pressing political issues of the weight-loss revolution. But, watching Oprah stand onstage, towering above the audience, wearing the kind of figure-hugging monochromatic jumpsuits she now favors, I realize that this may not be about us. This is about Oprah. You may find inspiration in her final weight-loss chapter. Even if you don’t, she clearly has found a way to love her body. It is hard to judge that.

Tressie McMillan Cottom (@ tressiemcphd ) became a New York Times Opinion columnist in 2022. She is an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science, the author of “Thick: And Other Essays” and a 2020 MacArthur fellow.

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Katie McNevin, a junior in electrical engineering from Saint Charles, Missouri, has been crowned the 2024 Queen of Love and Beauty as part of the 116th St. Pat’s celebration in Rolla. She was nominated by Phi Sigma Rho. 

The identities of the queen, queen’s court and the student knights’ court were revealed during coronation ceremonies held Friday, March 15. 

Members of the queen’s court are: 

  • Princess of Peace and Happiness – Rory Anderson, a sophomore in information science and technology from Liberty, Missouri, representing Sigma Nu.  
  • Countess of Courage and Valor – Abbey Krimmel, a senior in computer science from Springfield, Illinois, representing Zeta Tau Alpha.  
  • Duchess of Desire and Ecstasy – Narrie Loftus, a graduate student in nuclear engineering from Sonoma, California, representing the American Nuclear Society. 
  • Lady of Honor and Devotion – Jessica Glenn, a senior in mining engineering from Edwardsville, Illinois, representing Lambda Sigma Pi.  

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  • Prince of Pride and Hope – Joseph Amrein, a junior in biological sciences from St. Louis, representing the General Delegation of Independents.  
  • Count of Charm and Humility – Lexy Custer, a senior in psychology from Kirkwood, Missouri, representing Chi Omega.  
  • Duke of Dominion and Strength – Luke Holliday, a doctoral student in computer science from Nixa, Missouri, representing the Fraternal Order of Leaders.  
  • Lord of Loyalty and Embrace – Caleb Bogener, a senior in mechanical engineering from Weldon Spring, Missouri, representing Tau Kappa Epsilon. 

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