Department News

• Dr. David Close gave an invited talk at the 39^th IUPAC Congress and 86^th Conference of The Canadian Society for Chemistry in Ottawa, Canada in the session Radicals in Chemistry and Biology.  The title of his talk was "DFT Calculations on the Primary Radiation Induced Free Radicals Observed in DNA Model Compounds"
• Dr. Mark Giroux gave an invited talk at the Frontiers in Laboratory Astrophysics Conference held in Athens Georgia June 26-27, 2003.
• Dr. David Close has been elected as the Councilor in Physics of the Radiation Research Society.  The council consists of the Officers and elected Councilors from physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine and conducts the affairs of the RR Society.

• Dr. David Close along with Dr. Arjun Makhijani (IEER) and Lisa Ledwidge have written the BEIR VII Committee (Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation) of the National Academy of Sciences asking the Committee to consider several situations involving low level radiation exposure.  The letter is online at http://www.ieer.org/comments/beir/ltr0503.html .
• Dr. David Close (Chair of Physics) was a member of the Ph. D Thesis Committee for Gareth Forde at the Department of Chemistry at Jackson State University.  He attended the Thesis Presentation on May 29, 2003.
• Dr. Beverly Smith was on the Master's thesis committee for ETSU psychology student Tifani Hite. Her thesis, defended July 7, 2003, was titled `Gender, Spatial Learning Trials, and Object Recall.'
• Dr. David Close is a member of the Adjudication Committee for Eirik Malinen's Candidate for the degree of Doctor of Science at the University of Oslo.  Dr. Close attended the Thesis Presentation on June 26, 2003 in Oslo.  Below is a picture of Dr. Close (right) with Eva Lund (center right), Eirik (center left), and Professor Erik Olai Petterson (left).

Last updated 8/21/03 by Beverly Smith