Krishnakumar Nangeelil, Christina Hall, and Zaijing Sun (all Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and their collaborator, Wesley Frey at the McClellan Nuclear Research Center of the University of California Davis, published an article titled, "Biomarker response of Spanish moss to heavy metal air pollution in the low country of the Savannah…

Zaijing Sun and Krishnakumar Nangeelil (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and their collaborators, Cai Qingseng and Scott Lassell of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the North Carolina State University, published an article titled “Investigation of Heavy Metals in Cottonseeds with Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and his collaborators,  Biswajit Biswal of South Carolina State University, and Andrew Duncan of Savannah River National Laboratory, published an article, “ADA: Advanced Data Analytics Methods for Abnormal Frequent Episodes in the Baseline Data of ISD” in the journal of Nuclear…

Francis A. Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) wrote  "Flying Without a Net: Space Radiation Cancer Risk Predictions without a Gamma-ray Basis," which appeared in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (Impact Factor =5.9). For the first time cancer risk predictions are made independent of human epidemiology data from…

Zaijing Sun, Krishnakumar Divakar Nangeelil, Peter Dimpfl, and Christina Hall (all Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences), along with colleagues from other institutions, recently presented papers at the On Methods and Applications of Radioanalytical Chemistry (MARC-XII) in Kailua Kona, Hawaii. Sun, Nangeelil, Qingseng Cai and Scott Lassell…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) recently gave a talk, "Nuclear Activation Analysis" at the Clark County School District (CCSD) seminar series "Science Speaks in Nevada." The seminar series is organized by the Nevada State Science Teachers Association, which provides one-hour session seminars with local STEM experts designed to…

Janice M. Pluth (Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences) and Chad L. Cross (Epidemiology & Biostatistics), along with colleagues at UC Berkley, recently published the article "Cellular DNA Effects of Radiation and Cancer Risk Assessment in Cells with Mitochondrial Defects" in the Journal of Radiation Research and Applied Sciences. The…

Francis A. Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), along with Premkumar B. Saganti of Prairie View A&M University wrote an article, "Race and Ethnic Group Dependent Space Radiation Cancer Risk Predictions," that has been published in Scientific Reports. Future space missions by national space agencies and private industry,…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the ANS Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. UNLV is the only university that has two recruitment sessions (Nuclear Engineering and Health…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was invited and presented his research “A Preliminary Study of the Organic and Nonorganic Food Ingredients with Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis” in the NCNR Seminar series of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standard and Technology.  In…

Francis Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published a series of recent article. The first, "Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma," was published in the Journal of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.  He also published "Future space missions and human enhancement: Medical and ethical challenges…

Francis A. Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published "A Proposed Change to Astronaut Exposures Limits is a Giant Leap Backwards for Radiation Protection" in the journal Life Sciences in Space Research. The paper provides a detailed critique of a National Academy of Sciences report in support of revising astronaut…