Wayne Stolte (Harry Reid Center) has had four articles published recently. They are: Electronic Structure of Polycrystalline Cadmium Dichloride Studied by X-ray Spectroscopies and ab Initio Calculations, which appeared in Materials Chemistry and Physics. Anionic and Cationic Photodissociation of the Chloroform Molecule Excited in the…

Kathy Lauckner (Harry Reid Center) is an invited speaker at the upcoming Lead and Healthy Housing Conference that will take place at the Marina Del Ray in Los Angeles later this month. She will moderate a workshop based on her dissertation work for the critical factors necessary to develop a successful lead poisoning prevention program. The…

Ken Czerwinski (Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies) and Ralf Sudowe (Health Physics and Diagnostic Science) received a $596,146 grant from National Security Technologies (NSTec) for development of synthetic debris for nuclear forensics.

Ken Czerwinski (Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies) recently received two grants. One, a $790,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy/Nuclear Energy University Programs, will be used for electrochemical corrosion studies for modeling metallic waste form release rates. He also received a $250,000 grant from Idaho National Laboratory…

Denis Beller (Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies) received a $198,660 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy/Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the development of a nuclear criticality safety education and training program at UNLV.

James Pollard (Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies) received a $542,825 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Forest Service for product development support for the Forest Inventory and Analysis national information management system.

Robert O'Brien (Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies) received a $75,000 grant from National Security Technologies (NSTec) for high output DD-DT support.

Thomas Hartmann (Harry Reid Center for Environmental Studies) received a $795,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy/Nuclear Energy University Programs, for studying thermodynamic and microstructural mechanisms in the corrosion of advanced ceramic tc-bearing waste forms and thermophysical properties.