Fluorescent Mineral Lecture - Thursday, April 16

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What: Fluorescent Mineral lecture/demonstration

Where: Youngstown State University Moser Hall Room 2000

When: Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m.

Who: Don Newsome, President of UV SYSTEMS, Inc.; Founder of the Fluorescent Mineral Society

Don Newsome, an internationally recognized expert on Fluorescent Minerals, will give two lecture/demonstrations at Youngstown State University on Thursday April 16th. An afternoon lecture/demonstration, aimed at students, will be presented at 2:30 p.m.. An evening lecture/demonstration for the general public will be at 7:30 p.m. Both events will be held in Moser Hall Room 2000. The Clarence R. Smith Mineral Museum will be open for tours before and after the public lecture.

Don Newsome is President of UV SYSTEMS, Inc. and founder of the internationally recognized Fluorescent Mineral Society. He has more than 43 years of experience collecting, displaying and exhibiting fluorescent minerals. An expert on the Sterling Hill New Jersey deposits, his personal collection includes over 2,000 fluorescent mineral specimens. Don's fluorescent mineral displays have won two national awards from the American Federation of Mineralogical Societies.

He has more than 35 years of experience in research and commercial lighting systems applications. Through his company, UV SYSTEMS, Inc. Don has supplied display UV lights to over 36 museums world-wide, including the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and YSU's Clarence R. Smith Mineral Museum. In 2007 Don supplied TripleBright II UV lights and fluorescent minerals to the British Geological Survey which installed a fluorescent mineral display in the Afghanistan Geological Survey Museum in Kabul.

All events are free and open to the public.

The events are sponsored by the YSU College of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics; Department of Geological & Environmental Sciences; and Clarence R. Smith Mineral Museum.