{"350861":{"#nid":"350861","#data":{"type":"news","title":"ChBE student\u2019s video takes top prize","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAccurately, effectively communicating what they do can be intimidating to many researchers. Asking them to summarize the activities of their labs in two-minute videos can make them break out into a cold sweat.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut for Nils Persson, a graduate student in the School of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering, it was no sweat. Persson won the grand prize of $2,500 in the Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) Research Video Contest for his two-minute video, called \u201cThe Art of Spin.\u201d The video uses the spinning-paint artistic approach to illustrate the experimental methods used by the Reichmanis Research Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI\u2019ve been making movies since junior high, so when I see a chance to make a movie, I always take it,\u201d said Persson, who is co-advised by ChBE faculty members Martha Grover and Elsa Reichmanis. \u201cVideos are the most exciting when things on screen are moving, but the only thing in our lab that moves is the spin-coater, so that was a natural starting point. The rest of the movement occurs on a molecular level while our polymers are crystallizing, so I had to find a way to show that.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe options there are basically time-resolved electron microscopy, molecular dynamics simulations or pushing a bunch of wires and paper dots around on my dining room table to make stop-motion animations, so that choice was pretty easy.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe contest objective is to \u201ccreate a unique, succinct, two-minute video that communicates the significance and challenges in your research.\u201d \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/vimeo.com\/104133637\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EClick here \u003C\/a\u003Eto watch Persson\u2019s award-winning video.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto captions:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPHOTO 1:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nils Persson used a GoPro camera, mounted on a light post, to capture the action from above.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPHOTO 2:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nils Persson with his award-winning video\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Graduate student Nils Persson won the grand prize in the Georgia Tech Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE) Research Video Contest for \u0022The Art of Spin.\u0022"}],"uid":"28045","created_gmt":"2014-12-01 19:14:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:22","author":"Amy Schneider","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2014-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"357261":{"id":"357261","type":"image","title":"Video award GoPro camera mounted on light post","body":null,"created":"1449245767","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:07","changed":"1475895091","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:31","alt":"Video award GoPro camera mounted on light post","file":{"fid":"201439","name":"img_0623.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_0623_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/img_0623_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":256799,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/img_0623_0.jpeg?itok=S3exQRiV"}},"357271":{"id":"357271","type":"image","title":"Nils Persson and his award-winning video","body":null,"created":"1449245767","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:16:07","changed":"1475895091","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:31","alt":"Nils Persson and his award-winning video","file":{"fid":"201440","name":"dsc_0920.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_0920_0.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/dsc_0920_0.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":192074,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/dsc_0920_0.jpeg?itok=jZmgbXY9"}}},"media_ids":["357261","357271"],"groups":[{"id":"1240","name":"School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAmy Schneider\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Chemical \u0026amp; Biomolecular Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E(404) 385-2299\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:news@chbe.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enews@chbe.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}