Centre College's Ben Slone to Take Part in Professional Conference

DANVILLE, KY (11/11/2011)(readMedia)-- Ben Slone of Danville, a junior at Centre, will act as an undergraduate reporter at an upcoming industrial symposium on alternative energy development. Slone learned about the opportunity to participate from assistant professor of physics Jason Neiser.

"Dr. Neiser forwarded me an email from the Society of Physics Students (SPS) saying that they wanted to have an undergraduate reporter give his or her perspective on the upcoming AVS symposium," Slone says. "It was a great coincidence because I had just finished talking to Dr. Neiser about how alternative energy research is what I want to study in grad school. I decided to apply, and a few days later, I was accepted into the program."

As an undergraduate reporter for the symposium, Slone will have his travel expenses covered by the SPS in exchange for writing a short paper sharing his perspective on the conference.

Slone is the son of Dwayne and Heather Slone of Danville and is a graduate of Boyle County High School.

Centre College, founded in 1819 and chosen to host its second Vice Presidential Debate in 2012, is ranked among the U.S. News top 50 national liberal arts colleges, at 42nd in the nation, and ranks 27th for best value among national liberal arts colleges. Forbes magazine ranks Centre 34th among all the nation's colleges and universities and has named Centre in the top five among all institutions of higher education in the South for three years in a row. The 2010 Open Doors Report, published by the Institute for International Education, ranks the College second in the nation for percentage of students who study abroad.