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Jessica Rosinski, a chemical engineering undergraduate student, was selected to attend the U.S. Women in Nuclear 2007 Conference in Anaheim, California sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Institute.  U.S. Women in Nuclear is a network of more than 2,400 women working in nuclear and radiation-related fields around the country.  Rosinski also attended the American Society of Engineering Education’s annual meeting in Honolulu, to present the peer-reviewed paper, “Development of a Radiochemistry Laboratory for the Production of Tc-99m using Neutron Activation.”  The paper focuses on the isotope Tc-99m used in nuclear medicine to identify tumors in the body.  Rosinski works for Dr. Sheldon Landsberger, the Hayden Head Centennial Professor in mechanical engineering and Coordinator of the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program.