Plans to establish a graduate program in health physics have been announced by Texas A & M University in College Station, Tex. Initially, the program will be directed toward MS and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering with emphasis on health physics. Much of the curriculum that is required of nuclear engineering students will also be required of the health physics students. Areas of research will include dosimetry, radiation effects, radiation biophysics, environmental evaluations, reactor shielding, and hazards analysis. Existing facilities at Texas A & M which will help implement the program include a 5‐megawatt reactor, a high level gamma irradiation apparatus several subcritical units, and a data processing center. In addition, the University plans to have its 88‐inch cyclotron in operation by 1967. Heading the academic committee for the new program is Vernon S. Bishop of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, who will be assisted by Robert G. Cochran, chairman of the Nuclear Engineering Department, and George M. Krise of the Biology Department.
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January 1965
January 01 1965
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Departmental programs. Physics Today 1 January 1965; 18 (1): 138–142. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3047121
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