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Remembering ANS member Gil Brown
Brown
The nuclear community is mourning the loss of Gilbert Brown, who passed away on July 11 at the age of 77 following a battle with cancer.
Brown, an American Nuclear Society Fellow and an ANS member for nearly 50 years, joined the faculty at Lowell Technological Institute—now the University of Massachusetts–Lowell—in 1973 and remained there for the rest of his career. He eventually became director of the UMass Lowell nuclear engineering program. After his retirement, he remained an emeritus professor at the university.
Sukesh Aghara, chair of the Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization, noted in an email to NEDHO members and others that “Gil was a relentless advocate for nuclear energy and a deeply respected member of our professional community. He was also a kind and generous friend—and one of the reasons I ended up at UMass Lowell. He served the university with great dedication. . . . Within NEDHO, Gil was a steady presence and served for many years as our treasurer. His contributions to nuclear engineering education and to this community will be dearly missed.”
November 17–21, 2024
Orlando, FL|Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld
Thank you for participating in the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Radiation Protection and Shielding Division 2024 (RPSD 2024)!
The RPSD Proceedings are now available to all who registered for the conference. Access to the proceedings is linked to the account you used to register for the conference.
You can also access the Proceedings by logging in to the ANS website. Then:
Sponsored by
Michael Reichenberger (Idaho National Laboratory)
Mathieu Dupont (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Call for Papers
RPSD 2024 Summary Template
RPSD 2024 Copyright Form
RPSD2024 Speaker Powerpoint Speaker Template
You are invited to submit your work for a special issue of the ANS journal Nuclear Science and Engineering or to the ANS publication platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research. Click the + for more information.
RPSD 2024 call for journal papers
RPSD 2024 has partnered with the ANS journal Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) to publish a special issue of papers derived from the conference. Additionally, should you choose not to pursue journal publication, we invite you to consider submitting to the ANS online platform Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research (NSTOR). See below or click here for more information on NSTOR.
If interested, please contact the guest editors listed below or submit directly via the links below.
**Submission window: open now with a final deadline of February 28, 2025
Details:
Submittal instructions:
Please consider the scopes of the journals when deciding where to submit.
Nuclear Science and Engineering welcomes submissions that explore basic and fundamental research in all areas related to nuclear science and engineering.
Submit to NSE – Questions? Email nse@ans.org.
Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research welcomes submissions where authors prefer, or funders require, a fully open publication venue for research articles, and/or where authors would like to submit article types not typically supported by archival journals (e.g., brief reports, method articles, data notes, posters/presentations).
Submit to NSTOR – Questions? Email nstor@ans.org.
Thank you again for attending RPSD 2024, and we hope you participate in this special issue opportunity!
Our very best,
Robert Hayes, RPSD 2024 general chair, rbhayes@ncsu.eduVaibhav Sinha, guest editor, RPSD 2024 publications chair, sinha.181@osu.eduMichael Reichenberger, guest editor, RPSD 2024 program co-chair, michael.reichenberger@inl.govMathieu Dupont, guest editor, RPSD 2024 program co-chair, dupontmn@ornl.govLawrence Heilbronn, guest editor, RPSD 2024 special issue, lheilbro@utk.eduFarzad Rahnema, Nuclear Science and Engineering editor-in-chief, frahnema@outlook.com
