Francis “Frank” Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) served as guest editor for the online journal Frontiers, which compiled multiple articles focused on experiences and opinions of scientists dealing with high-energy charged particles either for cancer treatment or space radiation protection. The journal, which contained two…

Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) served as one of four editors for the recently published book Radiation Protection Dosimetry, which contains the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on Microdosimetry. Published by Oxford University Press, the book contains scientific works about ionizing radiation quality,…

Gary Cerefice and Ralf Sudowe (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a nearly $400,000 grant from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish the UNLV nuclear science and engineering fellowship program. Beginning fall 2016, the new four-year program will award at least four…

Murat Alp and Frank Cucinotta (both Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) are co-authors of “Irradiation of Neurons with High-Energy Charged Particles: An In Silico Modeling Approach,” which outlines the use of a stochastic computational model to study damage of irradiated neuronal cells. The study addresses the physico-chemical and patho-…

Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Radiochemsitry) led webinars titled "Alpha Spectrometry" and "Applications in Liquid Scintillation Counting" that were presented to people at the U.S. Department of Energy Carlsbad field office, the National Analytical Management Program, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More than 450 attendees…

Jessica Kobayashi (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received an Idea Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence Undergraduate Research Opportunity award. She is working with professor Gary Cerefice to study the potential use of commercial graphite to extract uranium from seawater. If successful, the research could prove graphite to be a…

Xia Li (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) earned the 2014 Basic Science Abstract Award in the Medical Physics category from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO). Regarded as the premier oncology society in the world, ASTRO bestows the Basic Science Abstract Award to the top three authors of significant abstracts about…

Radiochemistry has seven doctoral students who have received fellowships in 2013 and 2014. They are: Jamie Daum and Daniel Mast, who received graduate fellowships through the U.S. Department of Energy's integrated university program. Marc Fitzgerald, who received an internship through the Livermore Graduate Scholar Program and a nuclear forensics…

Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) and Derek McLain (Radiochemistry) wrote "Extraction Behavior of Americium and Curium on Selected Extraction Chromatography Resins from Pure Acidic Matrices," which studies the extraction properties of chromatography resins and their potential application in the areas of nuclear forensics,…

Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) has had his work published in several journals. He is the senior author of "Analysis of the Lymphocytopoiesis Dynamics in Nonirradiated and Irradiated Humans: A Modeling Approach." The article describes how an existing mathematical model of the lymphocytopoiesis system was extended to…

Michelle Samuel (Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences), Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences), and George Pales (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) received the 2014 "distinguished" awards from the School of Allied Health Sciences. Samuel, who teaches in the athletic training program, received the Distinguished Teaching Award,…

Frank Cucinotta (Health Physics & Diagnostic Sciences) has had his work published in multiple journals. He co-authored "The Hohmann-Parker Effect Measured by the Mars Science Laboratory on the Transfer from Earth to Mars: Consequences and Opportunities," which reports a new effect describing the solar magnetic field lines at spacecraft as they…