Newswise (June 2) -- Alan Alda announced the winners of Stony Brook University’s Flame Challenge contest, in which scientists had to explain “what is color?” in a way that would interest and enlighten 11-year-olds. A team from the Beckman Insitute--comprised of Brad Deutsch and David Mayerich, Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows, and Bioimaging Science and Technology Group faculty members Rohit Bhargava and Scott Carney--decided to enter—and were named one of the top three finalists in the visual category, out of hundreds of applicants.