Awards, Honors and Fellowships

NSE graduate students at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Audrey DeVault and Bryan Foo, are recipients of highly competitive Department of Energy fellowships that support emerging leaders in high-energy density physics and nuclear science.

Professor Zachary Hartwig, who exemplifies a rare but powerful kind of mentorship — one grounded not just in intellectual excellence, but in deep personal care, is honored as “Committed to Caring.”

NSE's Mingda Li is one of eleven faculty members have been granted tenure in six units across MIT’s School of Engineering.

Ruth and Joel Spira Awards are given annually to four faculty members in the areas of electrical engineering, computer science, mechanical engineering, and nuclear science and engineering to acknowledge “the tradition of high-quality engineering education at MIT”.

NSE and the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society hosted their annual awards dinner on May 13, 2025

The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering hosted its annual Research Expo on April 11, 2025. The event featured poster presentations by 21 students and oral presentations by three graduate students.

NSE graduate student Sara Hauptman, won the Best Student Presentation Award at the European Research Reactor Conference (RRFM) for her poster, entitled “Exploring MITR-III Alternative Reactivity Control Systems to Eliminate Axial Flux Skewing”.

Loureiro was nominated by the NSF for his work on the generation and amplification of magnetic fields in the universe. He is among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential.

MIT postdoctoral candidate Yu-Jou Wang won the Young Professional Thermal-Hydraulic Research Competition at the 2024 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting. The winning paper “A Dynamic Turbulence Tracking Approach for Uncertainty Quantification of URANS CFD Models”, is co-authored with MIT’s Professor Emilio Baglietto

To recognize that up-and-coming generation, Nuclear News launched this year its 40 Under 40 as a celebration of the talented young professionals who are making great strides in every sector of the industry. Professor Koroush Shirvan, and NSE alums Aditi Verma PhD ’18 and Paul Romano PhD ’13 this...