Kristina Lipinska (Harry Reid Center) received an extension on her biofuels project until Dec. 31, 2013.

Steve Curtis (Harry Reid Center) received an $80,000 grant from the Nevada governor's economic development office for the integration and development of the screening information request (SIR) response to the Federal Aviation Administrations selection process for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites in the United States.

Gerald Egeland (Harry Reid Center) wrote a paper, "Letter to the Editors: Reducing Fuel-Cladding Chemical Interaction: The Effect of Palladium on Reactivity of Neodymium on Iron in Diffusion Couple," which was accepted by the Journal of Nuclear Materials.

P. Jane Hafen (English) edited a collection of scholarly essays, Critical Insights: Louise Erdrich. Among the contributors are Patrice Hollrah (Writing Center), Margaret Huettl (History), and William Huggins (English). Erdrich just won the National Book Award for her novel The Round House.

Janelle Droessler (Harry Reid Center) presented a poster, "The Direct Dissolution and Electrochemical Study of Uranium Oxide in Ionic Liquids," at a meeting of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium at the University of California, Berkeley, in August. UNLV is a member of the consortium. She works on the research with John Kinyanjui (Harry…

Thomas Hartmann (Harry Reid Center) received an award from Los Alamos National Laboratory for the project Synthesis and Fabrication of Advanced Tc-99 Containing Ceramic Waste Form Pellets. The project budget target is $75,000. Another project, "Lanthanide Transport and Solubility Measurements" was continued through an additional $17,958 from the…

Daniel Lowe (Harry Reid Center) and Robert O'Brien (Harry Reid Center) received $48,000 from National Security Technologies for Task 45, the Support Forensic Prompt Program.

Charlotta Sanders (Harry Reid Center) and Denis Beller (Harry Reid Center) presented "Educating the Cybersecurity Nuclear Engineering Workforce" at the Cybersecurity Collaborations Symposium with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Security Technologies, and Mississippi State University in September.

Frederic Poineau (Harry Reid Center), Edward Mausolf (Harry Reid Center), and Ken Czerwinski (Harry Reid Center), along with Gordon Jarvinen and Al Sattelberger, have had a manuscript, "Technetium Chemistry in the Fuel Cycle: Combining Basic and Applied Studies," accepted by the journal Inorganic Chemistry.