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Name:
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Michelle L. Arnold |
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Department/Program:
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Physics
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Status:
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Full-time contract |
Education
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Your highest degree earned, its concentration/emphasis,
institution, year earned:
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Degree
Concentration/emphasis
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Ph.D. in Physics
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Institution
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McMaster University
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Year
Earned
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2000 |
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Certifications/licenses you currently hold:
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Teaching Experience
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How
many years you have been teaching at Weber State
University:
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1 years
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Your
total years of teaching (including those at Weber State
University):
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6.5 years
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From 1997–2003, what are
examples of your most significant teaching developments,
innovations, etc.
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1. 2001 – Participated in the development of a one week
hands-on computer workshop to train members of the NOMOS
corporation in the use of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo software
for radiotherapy dose calculations.
2. 2000 – Co-supervised two summer students involved in
x-ray fluorescence and neutron activation research at
McMaster University (Canada). |
Research, Scholarship, Creative Activities
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From 1997–2003, what are examples of your most significant
research, scholarship, or creative activities?
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1. 2003 – Published in Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Letter to the editor: “Corrections to ‘How to calculate lead
concentrations and concentration uncertainty in XRF in vivo
bone lead analysis’ by Kondrashov and Rothenberg” Todd AC et
al.
Applied Radiation and Isotopes. 2003 58:41-50
2. 2002 – Published in Medical Physics
“An accelerator based system for in vivo neutron activation
analysis measurements of manganese in human hand bones.”
Arnold ML, McNeill FE, Stronach IM, Pejovic-Milic A, Chettle
DR, Waker A.
Med Phys. 2002 Nov;29(11):2718-24.
3. 2002 – Twp presentation at the annual meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine
a) "Biological Effects of Low Dose Ionizing Radiation in
Human Subjects Undergoing Radiotherapy: Accuracy of Monte
Carlo Dose Calculations in Peripheral Regions of
Radiotherapy Beams".
M Arnold, R Stern, M Descalle, Z Goldberg, C Hartmann-Siantar,
R Walling,. Dr.
annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in
Medicine, Montreal, Canada, July 14-18, 2002:
b) "Film Dosimetry in the Peripheral Region Using Multiple
Sensitometric Curves".
R. Stern, M. Arnold, M-A Descalle, Z Goldberg, C Hartmann
Siantar, R Walling.
Annual meeting of the American Association of Physicists in
Medicine, Montreal, Canada, July 14-18, 2002:
4. 2002 – Presentation at the 5th International Topical
Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope Measurement
Applications
"A Study of MDL improvement for the in-vivo measurement of
lead in bone".
Huiling Nie, David Chettle, Ian Stronach, Michelle Arnold,
Shibin Huang,Fiona McNeill, Joanne O'Meara,
5th International Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation
and Radioisotope Measurement Applications (IRRMA) in
Bologna, Italy, June 9-14, 2002:
5. 2001 - Attended the 2001 American Association of
Physicists in Medicine Congress, Salt Lake City, UT
6. 2001 - Attended and presented at the ISTERN conference,
Lisbon, Portugal
7. 2001 - Attended the 2000 Canadian Association of
Physicists Congress, Toronto, ON, Canada
8. 2000 – Published in Applied Radiation and Isotopes
The Feasibility of In Vivo Measurements of Manganese in the
Human Brain Using Neutron Activation Analysis, Based on
Monte Carlo Simulations.
Arnold ML, McNeill FE, Prestwich WV and Chettle DR
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 2000 53 (4-5) 651-656
9. 2000 – Published in Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Monte Carlo Design Study for In Vivo Aluminum Bone
Measurement Using a Low Energy Accelerator Beam
Pejovic-Milic A., Arnold ML, McNeill FE and Chettle DR
Applied Radiation and Isotopes 2000 53 (4-5) 657-664
10. 1999- Presentation at the 4th Topical Meeting on
Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope Measurement
Application
a) “The Feasibility of In Vivo Measurements of Manganese in
the Human Brain Using Neutron Activation Analysis, Based on
Monte Carlo Simulations”
Arnold ML, McNeill FE, Prestwich WV and Chettle DR
4th Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope
Measurement Application. (IRRMA '99), Raleigh, North
Carolina, October 1999
b) “Monte Carlo Design Study for In Vivo Aluminum Bone
Measurement Using a Low Energy Accelerator Beam”.
Pejovic-Milic, A, Arnold ML, McNeill FE and Chettle DR
4th Topical Meeting on Industrial Radiation and Radioisotope
Measurement Applications. (IRRMA '99), Raleigh, North
Carolina, October 1999
11. 1999 – Published in Neurotosicology
The Feasibility of Measuring Manganese Concentrations in
Human Liver Using Neutron Activation Analysis.
Arnold ML, McNeill FE and Chettle DR
Neurotoxicology 1999 20 (2-3) 407-412
12. 1997- Presentation at the 15th International
Neurotoxicology Conference
“The Feasibility of Measuring Manganese Concentrations in
Human Liver Using Neutron Activation Analysis”.
Arnold ML, McNeill FE and Chettle DR
15th International Neurotoxicology Conference, Little Rock,
Arkansas, October 1997 |
Public
Service
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From
1997-2003, what are examples of your most significant
professionally related service to the community
(member/officer in professional organizations, consultant,
presentations/speeches, etc)
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1. 2002 – Presentation for the Weber State University
Physics Department Seminar Series
“”What is Medical Physics? What are the job opportunities?
Things to Think About”
2. 2002-2003 - Curriculum Committee, College of Science,
Weber State University
3. 2002-2003 - Curriculum Committee, Lower Division Lab
Committee, and chair of the Recruitment and Retention
Committee, Physics Department, Weber State University
4. 1998-2000 - Graduate student representative at
departmental meetings, Department of Physics and Astronomy,
McMaster University (Canada)
5. 1999-2000 - Graduate Student Liaison Committee , McMaster
University (Canada)
6. 1999 - Departmental Representative for the McMaster
Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Canadian
Undergraduate Physics Conference
7. 1998-1999 - Accelerator Safety Committee, McMaster
University (Canada)
8. 1998-1999 - Member of the Canadian Organization of
Medical Physicists
9. 1997-1999 - Volunteer with Let's Talk Science, a national
program in Canada designed to increase interest in science
among youth
10. 1997-1998 - Assisted with SHAD Valley, science summer
camp program for gifted high school students
11. 1997 - McMaster University Open House, discussed various
aspects of the field of Medical Physics and demonstrated the
x-ray fluorescence system used to measure lead in bone
12. 1997 - Member of the Canadian Association of Physicists |
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