Held annually on 7 November – on the birthday of the world’s first medical physicist, Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie – the International Day of Medical Physics raises awareness of the field’s ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Brian Pogue, who is professor of biomedical engineering at ...

Aliyah Welker ’22 had never heard of health physics when she started at UMass Lowell. Neither had Cassia Fontes ’22, ’23. Yet the two former classmates, who chose the radiological health physics ...

Most countries have medical physics societies and rules for equipment quality control, but the recognition and job roles of medical physicists vary. Challenges included a lack of awareness of the ...

The IAEA’s expertise in medical physics and dosimetry is enhancing the capacities of countries around the globe to use ionizing radiation in medical procedures safely and effectively, the Scientific ...

Beyond the medical physics program’s academic rigor, the recent class of graduates also developed the Medical Physics Club of Purdue, a student organization that offers opportunities for medical ...

From the time he was a child enthralled with science fiction, Aaron Fishbein knew he wanted to study physics. Now, as a student in UMass Lowell’s highly selective medical physics graduate program, ...

Sarah Lindh ’08 grew up with a deep-rooted passion for science—an interest sparked early by a family filled with engineers. She developed a strong passion for physics early on and knew that science ...

Medical physicist Chris Williams, who completed his NASA astronaut training in 2024, has been selected to serve aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Expedition 74 crew and is ...