Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) has been elected to the executive committee of the Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division (ETWDD) of the American Nuclear Society. His three-year term will begin June 17. The ETWDD provides communication among the academic, industrial, and governmental communities through the…

Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering), Artem Gelis (Chemistry), and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about corresponding nuclear-related programs at the 2021 ANS Virtual Student Conference last week. UNLV is among the 11 top-tier universities invited to have university…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published a peer-reviewed conference paper, "Applying Advanced Data Analytics Methods to the Baseline Data of ISD Sensor Network Testbed for System Failure Detection," in the proceeding of the Waste Management Symposia 2021. In this work, advanced data analytics methods are applied to the in-…

Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) published “Temporal Data Mining in Nuclear Site Monitoring and In-situ Decommissioning,” a chapter in the book “Nuclear Power Plant Design and Analysis Codes” this month with Elsevier. The author discussed the techniques of temporal data mining (TDM) and how to apply it to nuclear site…

Francis Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) has been honored with the 2020 Harry Reid Silver State Research Award for his outstanding research achievements. Cucinotta's work has garnered national and international recognition. One of UNLV's most prestigious awards, the Harry Reid Silver State Research Award was created in 2001 to…

Chad Hensley (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) is this year’s recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from the Association of Collegiate Educators in Radiologic Technology (ACERT). Presented at the organization’s national conference in early February, this singular recognition for educators is based on several factors including a…

Chad Hensley (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) accepted an invitation by Gov. Steve Sisolak to attend the signing of Nevada Senate Bill 130, which mandates completing an education-based licensing program for those using ionizing radiation for medical imaging or therapy purposes. Previously, the state did not require specific education for…

Francis Cucinotta (Health Physics) served as guest editor for a special issue of Radiation and Dosimetry, which focused on the 17th International Symposium on Microdosimetry that addressed ionising radiation quality, molecular mechanisms, cellular effects, and their consequences for low-level risk assessment and radiation therapy. He also co-…

Francis Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) accepted an invitation to speak during the National Academy of Sciences’ Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium on the Future of Low-Dose Radiation Research in the United States. His talk focused on systems radiation biology, which addressed the government’s potential responsibilities in this area. He…

Heidi Shelton (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) presented “Digital Radiography: When the Safety of Low Dose Radiation Creates Sloppiness” during the Association of Collegiate Educators in Radiologic Technology annual conference. The lecture identified poor practices that increase radiation exposure to technologists and patients, addressed…

Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) co-authored five articles that recently appeared in peer-reviewed journals. Three of the studies revealed important findings about the age dependence of impaired cognition during radiation treatment of brain cancers; defined a new international standard to format various types of DNA damage…

Janice Pluth (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) is the corresponding author of the paper “Genetic Variation and Radiation Quality Impact Cancer Promoting Cellular Phenotypes in Response to HZE Exposure,” which appears in-press within the journal Life Sciences in Space Research. This work used various normal mammary epithelial strains, with…