Jerry Artz, professor of physics, presented at multiple conferences over the past month. Artz presented at the April meeting of the American Physical Society in Sacramento, California, where he introduced a computer application, begun eight years ago with John Alchemy ’90, that manages health care and insurance settlement for job-related injured workers in such an efficient manner that it saves an average of $15,000 per worker.
Artz later presented at the spring meeting of the North Central Chapter of the Health Physics Society at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, where he discussed the making of a 5.0 nanocurie natural uranium source and its possible use for radiation calibration. The presentation was dedicated to the late Rod Olsen.
Finally, Artz presented at the annual meeting of the Minnesota Chapter of the American Association of Physics Teachers at University of St. Thomas that emphasized “Innovation in Teaching,” where he discussed a laboratory, either high school or college, that can be used to determine the energy efficiency of a home or building by measuring heat loss and solar gain.
