Former resident receives NASA grant

Dustin Swarm former Spanish teacher at Greenville High School and current Post-Doctoral researcher for the University of Iowa, in the Physics and Astronomy Department, has received a grant from NASA to “create imaging technology that could generate a fuller photographic scope of the Milky Way galaxy,” according to a press release about the grant.

Swarm will use this grant to design, “multi-layered coatings for grazing incidence optical technology. This technology relies on thin mirrors stacked upon each other. Light then reflects from the stacked mirrors at a small angle — known as the grazing incidence angle, nearly parallel to the mirror surface,” said the press release.

Swarm has always had a love for math and science and after six years of teaching at GHS he decided to go back to college, Greenville University to be exact, to pursue further education in Math and Science.