Janelle Droessler (Harry Reid Center) presented a poster, "The Direct Dissolution and Electrochemical Study of Uranium Oxide in Ionic Liquids," at a meeting of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium at the University of California, Berkeley, in August. UNLV is a member of the consortium. She works on the research with John Kinyanjui (Harry…

Thomas Hartmann (Harry Reid Center) received an award from Los Alamos National Laboratory for the project Synthesis and Fabrication of Advanced Tc-99 Containing Ceramic Waste Form Pellets. The project budget target is $75,000. Another project, "Lanthanide Transport and Solubility Measurements" was continued through an additional $17,958 from the…

Daniel Lowe (Harry Reid Center) and Robert O'Brien (Harry Reid Center) received $48,000 from National Security Technologies for Task 45, the Support Forensic Prompt Program.

Charlotta Sanders (Harry Reid Center) and Denis Beller (Harry Reid Center) presented "Educating the Cybersecurity Nuclear Engineering Workforce" at the Cybersecurity Collaborations Symposium with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Security Technologies, and Mississippi State University in September.

Frederic Poineau (Harry Reid Center), Edward Mausolf (Harry Reid Center), and Ken Czerwinski (Harry Reid Center), along with Gordon Jarvinen and Al Sattelberger, have had a manuscript, "Technetium Chemistry in the Fuel Cycle: Combining Basic and Applied Studies," accepted by the journal Inorganic Chemistry.

Joseph Gilbert (Management) is the author of Ethics for Managers: Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities, which was published by Routledge Publishing in July.

Rebecca Gill (Political Science) and her co-authors, Reginald Sheehan and Kirk Randazzo, have just published their new book, Judicialization of Politics: The Interplay of Institutional Structure, Legal Doctrine, and Politics on the High Court of Australia.Their findings suggest that high court judges can be constrained by institutional…

Shannon Monnat (Sociology) recently co-authored a paper with a colleague at Georgetown University Medical Center that will be published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, the fourth highest ranked journal in the field of public health. The paper, "Is There an Association between Maternal Pap Test Use and Adolescent Human Papillomavirus?"…

Tara Emmers-Sommer (Communication Studies) is the co-author, along with Wittenburg University professor Kathleen Warber, of an article, "The Relationships among Sex, Gender and Attachment," which was published in Language and Communication Quarterly.She also served as the keynote speaker for Alpha Delta Pi's Spirit Week recruitment retreat in…