Tim Tran (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave presentations at the Thirteenth International Conference on Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC XIII) titled, "Using Neutron Activation to Study Heavy Metals in Water Samples of Lake Mead" and “Evaluating Cosmic-ray Background in an HPGE Detector System:…

Congratulations to the entire faculty from UNLV's Radiography program for participating in the 50th annual conference for the Association of Collegiate Educators in Radiologic Technology (ACERT) in Las Vegas. Chad Hensley, Director of the Radiography program, gave the conference's keynote address that included more than 900 students and faculty in…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and collaborators published a study in Applied Radiation and Isotopes titled "Evaluating Cosmic-Ray Backgrounds in HPGe Gamma Spectrometry: Experimental Observations and GEANT4 Simulations." Using a High-Purity Germanium (HPGe) detector with an active cosmic veto system, the team analyzed…

Chad Hensley and Heidi Shelton (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) were the first imaging technologists to speak at the annual TravelCon Conference, the largest conference dedicated to traveling healthcare professionals. Hensley spoke on medical imaging's role in child abuse - a modality review, and Shelton spoke on fatal and gonadal…

Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Haven Searcy, and Zaijing Sun (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), along with Beverly Parker from the Community Environmental Monitoring Program (CEMP) at the Desert Research Institute, published an article titled, “Assessing Radiation Fallout in Public Zones near the Nevada National…

Associate professor Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received a three-year, $280,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for his upcoming project titled, "Developing Quasi Absolute Method (QAM) and 3-D Isotopic Imaging with Neutron Activation."  

Haven Searcy (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) won the Junior Investigator Award and gave a presentation at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Council on Ionizing Radiation Measurements & Standards (CIRMS 2024). His submitted essay is titled "No nuclear fallout radioactivity was found on public zones around the Nevada National Security…

Krishnakumar Nangeelil and Zaijing Sun (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), along with Colby Fleming from the Nuclear Reactor Program at North Carolina State University, published an article titled, “Using neutron activation to assess heavy metal pollution in water and sediment along Savannah River,” in Environmental…

 Zaijing Sun, Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Haven Searcy (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published an article titled, “Developing a Remote Gamma-ray Spectra Collection System by Coupling a High Purity Germanium (HPGe) Detector with a CosmicGuard Background Reduction Device,” in HARDWAREX. The paper introduces the design…

Francis A. Cucinotta (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Premkumar B. Saganti published an article titled, "Residual radiation risk disparities across sex and race or ethnic groups for lifetime never-smokers on lunar missions," in the journal Life Science in Space Research. Research, for the first time, predicts…

Krishnakumar Nangeelil and Zaijing Sun  (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) recently gave oral presentations at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society(HPS AM 2023) in National Harbor, Maryland. Nangeelil's talk is titled, “Comparison of GEANT 4 Simulation and Experimental Measurements of CosmicGuard…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was interviewed by Insider.com again and talked about the DIY underground bunker in the event of nuclear war. His discussion was published in the science section of Insider.com and titled: "How to build a cheap DIY underground bunker to protect you from nuclear fallout".