Ms. Grace Sheila D. Luciano, a BS Applied Physics student, received the Best Poster Award during the 4th Philippine Nuclear Research and Development Conference (PNRDC) 2025 held last December 10-11, 2025 at the PNRI Auditorium, Commonwealth Avenue, Diliman, Quezon City.
The winning poster of Ms. Luciano was about “Assessment of Radionuclide and Heavy Metal Contamination in Soil and Rice: A Comparative Study Between Urban and Rural Areas in Nueva Ecija with Soil-Rice Correlation Analysis”. The two-day event was filled with plenary sessions, parallel sessions and poster presentations about Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science, Nuclear Applications in Health, Radiation Processing, and Radiation Protection. Congratulations to Ms. Luciano and to the Physics and Geology Unit of the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics.
–JAP Nuñez