Accomplishments: Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences
Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) and Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) gave recruitment presentations and answered questions about the nuclear engineering and health physics programs at the 2022 American Nuclear Society Virtual Graduate School Fair last week. 51吃瓜网万能科大 was among 25 universities invited to have recruitment鈥
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鈥
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 鈥淚nvestigation of Heavy Metals in Cottonseeds with Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis (INAA鈥
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, 鈥淎DA: Advanced Data Analytics Methods for Abnormal Frequent Episodes in the Baseline Data of ISD鈥 in the journal of Nuclear鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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鈥
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,鈥
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.
51吃瓜网万能科大 is the only university that has two recruitment sessions (Nuclear Engineering and Health鈥
Zaijing Sun (Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences) was invited and presented his research 鈥淎 Preliminary Study of the Organic and Nonorganic Food Ingredients with Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis鈥 in the NCNR Seminar series of the Center for Neutron Research at the National Institute of Standard and Technology.
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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鈥