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Tracy Jue, Chapter Past Treasurer

Chapter Meetings

Jessica Mintz
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The Northern California Chapter of the Health Physics Society (NCCHPS) traditionally holds five dinner meetings per year with presentations on various health physics topics of interest to its members. In the social hour before the dinner and the presentation, NCCHPS members have the opportunity to socialize and exchange their news. These in-person dinner meetings, which started in the 1980s, were interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The NCCHPS chapter meetings now continue with virtual meetings.

The latest meeting was held 19 February 2021 and was the technical presentation "Cleanup at the University of Washington's Harborview Medical Center." Jessica Mintz, MS (nuclear engineering from Purdue University), a subject-matter expert for nondestructive assay measurements in the Nuclear Material Control and Accountability Group at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory presented information on her involvement with the cleanup at the University of Washington Harborview Medical Center.

Moyer Fund Update

The prestigious Burton Moyer Memorial Fellowship was established by the NCCHPS as an educational scholarship to encourage the study of the safe use of radiation for the benefit of all people. The fellowship has been continuously awarded for 35 years, since 1985. The names of recipients can be viewed on the NCCHPS website.

Joshua Hayes
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We appreciate donations to the Burton J. Moyer Fellowship Fund in any amount, no matter how small—the donations are tax deductible. You may donate online or make checks payable to NCCHPS and send or give them to our treasurer, with the notation "For the Moyer Fund."

The Burton Moyer Memorial Fellowship recipient for 2020–2021 is Joshua Hayes, from Colorado State University. His dissertation title is "The Pseudo Pelger-Huët Anomaly as a Potential Biomarker for Acute Radiation Dose in Rhesus Macaques." Hayes is currently researching the high throughput dicentric chromosome assays and working to optimize automation of the process using a Metasystems microscope.