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Matthew Durbin, a nuclear engineering doctoral candidate at Penn State, was recently awarded a first-place prize in the 2021 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards for his research paper, “K-Nearest Neighbors Regression for the Discrimination of Gamma Rays and Neutrons in Organic Scintillators.”
The following is a list of academic promotions for tenured and tenure-line faculty members at Penn State, effective July 1.
" " Geiger counters used to be fairly big and bulky devices, but today can be handheld like this one or even downloaded as an app on a smartphone. Sean Gallup/Getty Images If you're a fan of vintage science fiction and horror flicks such as the 1984 film "C.H.U.D.," you're used to getting a chill down your spine whenever characters point a boxy gadget into the darkness and are alerted to the presence of some yet-unseen radioactive monster by an ominous clicking sound. Geiger counters are such a familiar prop in old movies, in fact, that you'd be forgiven for assuming that they're eithe...