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Deirdre Elder, Chapter President
Photos courtesy of Thomas Johnson

The Central Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Health Physics Society held its annual Spring Technical Meeting at Colorado State University (CSU) on 25 April 2024. Thirteen CSU graduate students in radiochemistry, health physics, and radioecology spoke about their research work and competed for prizes for best talk.

All of the talks were interesting and informative, and the job of the judges was not easy. At the end of the day, Maella Coupannec won first prize for her talk "Evaluation of Extraction Chromatographic Resin for the Purification of Ra-226 Legacy Waste: A New Ac-225 Production Pathway for Cancer Treatment." Paige Witter won second prize for "Alanine Neutron Dosimetry at Colorado State University" and Billy Stephenson won third prize for "Determination of Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 in Freshwater Fish Near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant."

Deirdre Elder (left) awarding the first prize to Maella Coupannec for her talk "Evaluation of Extraction Chromatographic Resin for the Purification of Ra-226 Legacy Waste: A New Ac-225 Production Pathway for Cancer Treatment."

Page Witter presenting her second-place-winning talk, "Alanine Neutron Dosimetry at Colorado State University."

Billy Stephenson presenting his third-place-winning talk, "Determination of Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 in Freshwater Fish Near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant."