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| Graduate Student Project | April 3, 2013 | |
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In March, Becky Phillips, WSU Graduate College of Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Program, performed a 45-hour clinical research project at the USTUR as a part of her Master's Degree program. Ms. Phillips assisted during the dissection of a plutonium worker's lung into ICRP 66's three thoracic compartments (BB, bb, and AI). | |
| Health Physics Society Meeting | July 26, 2012 | |
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USTUR faculty were authors on three presentations at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society (HPS) in Sacramento, CA, July 22-26, 2012. The presentations were given by Maia Avtandilashvili (USTUR, photo at right), Sergei Tolmachev (USTUR), and Majid Khalaf (ISU). |
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| Russian Scientist Visits | July 20, 2012 | |
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Ms. Elena Burikova, the Head of the Radiochemistry Group at the Southern Urals Biophysics Institute (SUBI) in Ozyorsk, Russia, spent five days at the USTUR in July 2012. SUBI studies the effects of radiation in workers from the first Russian nuclear facility ... read more Pictured at left: USTUR director, Sergei Tolmachev, and Ms. Burikova at the USTUR office. |
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| New Hires | March 15, 2012 | ||
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The USTUR is excited to welcome two new faces to the USTUR team, Maia Avtandilashvili and Elizabeth Thomas. Dr. Avtandilashvili (left) is a health physicist who joined the USTUR on January 22. Ms. Thomas (right) is a laboratory technician who began working with the USTUR on March 1, 2012. |
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| Health Physics Society Meeting | July 6 , 2011 | |
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USTUR faculty members were authors on five abstracts that were presented at the 56th Annual Health Physics Society Meeting in West Palm Beach, FL, June 26 - 30, 2011: USTUR's Stacey McCord gave an oral presentation titled "Distribution of Terminal Lung and Liver Dose Rates in United States Transuranium and Uranium Registries Registrants." Dr. Gary Kramer of Health Canada, Ottawa, gave an oral presentation titled, "Comparison of two leg phantoms containing Am-241 in bone." Three Idaho State University students - George Tabatadze, Maia Avtandilashvili, and Majid Khalaf - gave poster presentations on their PhD research. USTUR's Dr. Anthony James is on each of these students’ doctoral committees and he is an author on their poster presentations. |
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| Japanese Journal of Health Physics | July 6 , 2011 News | |
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USTUR director, Dr. Sergei Tolmachev, has been appointed to serve a 2nd term on the Editorial Board for the Japanese Journal of Health Physics (JJHP).| USTUR Hosts Sabbatical Researcher | March 1 , 2011 | |
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Dr. Bastian Breustedt started a six-month sabbatical with the USTUR on February 21, 2011. Dr. Breustedt works for the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany, and will be modeling the effects of chelating agents in two USTUR Registrant tissue donors.| EURADOS Meeting | February 17 , 2011 | |
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Ms. Stacey McCord represented the USTUR at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the European Dosimetry Group (EURADOS), Prague, Czech Republic, February 7-9, 2011. Ms. McCord participated in the Working Group 7 (WG7) on "Internal Dosimetry" and attended the Winter School on "Radiation Protection for Medical Staff. Her presentation to WG7 titled, "Microdistribution and Long-Term Retention of 239Pu(NO3)4 in the Respiratory Tract: A progress report" can be downloaded from the following link. |
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