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4 May 2022
Great Lakes Chapter Young Investigators Virtual Symposium

Left to right, Chris Davis, Carly Evans, Colin Stewart, and Professor Kim Kearfott.
Photo courtesy of Kim Kearfott

GLCHPS Recognizes Three Students at the 2022 Spring Young Investigators Virtual Symposium

Maha Srinivasan, Chapter President

The Great Lakes Chapter of the Health Physics Society (GLCHPS) recognized three students at the 2022 Spring Young Investigators Virtual Symposium on 14 April 2022.

Carly Evans from the University of Michigan won the Arthur J. Solari Founder Award for "Testing of Multiple Samples of a Consumer-Grade Temporal Radon Monitoring Device" and took home a $250 prize. Colin J. Stewart from the University of Michigan won the James E. Martin Award for "Quality Control Program for High Precision Radiation Dose Delivery" and took home a $500 prize. Christopher C. Davis from the University of Michigan, with the first-place finish, won the Marie Curie Award, our highest scientific award, for "Algorithms for Rapid Localization of Lost Radiation Sources." Christopher's first-place finish netted him the $1,000 prize.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the symposium was held in a virtual format. The panel judges were Alan Jackson, MS, CHP, radiation safety officer, Henry Ford Health System; Kundan Thindt, PhD, vice chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Health System; and Janice Campbell, PhD, DABR, nuclear medicine physicist, Beaumont Health.