Professor Ghassan Saffarini, staff member at the Physics Department and Dr. Hamzeh Al-Zabadi, Head of the Public Health Department at An-Najah's Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences have recently won the Arab American University Award for Excellence in Scientific Research 2017.

The researchers won for their research titled: “Radon in Harvested Rainwater in Palestine” which was published by the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

Notes:

• The Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2.310 impact factor, provides a coherent international forum for publication of original research or review papers on any aspect of the occurrence of radioactivity in natural systems.
• The research paper was conducted in cooperation with Prof. Issam Al-Khatib from the Institute of Environmental and Water Studies at Birzeit University.
•  To see the paper, please visit the link:
  https://staff.najah.edu/media/published_research/2017/03/23/Radon_in_harvested_rainwater_at_the_household_level_PalestineH.pdf