FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 21, 2002
FY02-37
Frame Honored as Fellow by the Health Physics Society
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. –Dr. Paul Frame of the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) has been named a fellow in the National Health Physics Society (HPS).
This honor is given by the society to senior members who have made exceptional administrative, education, and/or scientific contributions to the health physics profession. Members of the society nominate their peers and a national panel chooses the fellows.
As a health physics instructor in ORISE’s Professional Training Programs (PTP), Frame has taught hundreds of people per year for the last 19 years or more than 10,000 total. Frame has also taught graduate students in the University of Tennessee’s Nuclear Engineering Department and undergraduates at Roane State Community College and Agnes Scott College.
Frame is also the curator of the Health Physics Historical Instruments Museum Collection at the PTP facility in Oak Ridge. The collection that Frame started on his own in 1986 has grown to over 1,000 items. Deemed the official repository for historical radiological instruments and devices by HPS, the collection chronicles the scientific and commercial history of radiation and explores humankind’s fascination with radiation.
Frame has served the HPS as a member of the board of directors from 1997 to 2000 and as president of the East Tennessee Chapter. He is currently a contributing editor for the Health Physics Society Newsletter and serves as a topical editor of the society’s Web site. Frame was the Health Physics Society’s recipient of the Hartman Medal in 1995 and the recipient of the R.S. Landauer Award in 1999.
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) is a U.S. Department of Energy institute focusing on scientific initiatives to research health risks from occupational hazards, assess environmental cleanup, respond to radiation medical emergencies, support national security and emergency preparedness, and educate the next generation of scientists. ORISE is managed by Oak Ridge Associated Universities.