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A redo of a classic lab-intensive course explores fun new ways of conducting research
Areg Danagoulian, associate professor at MIT NSE, has been teaching the lab-heavy course, Principles of Nuclear Radiation Measurement and Protection, for a while now. This year, he decided to revamp the class. “It was time to throw away some experiments that were...
3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia
Prof Mike Short launched Anthro-Engineering with Prof Manduhai Buyandelger in 2021. The program provides students the opportunity for deep engagement, relationship building, and personal understanding needed to find real solutions for real people.
Thomas Varnish: Studying astrophysically relevant plasma physics
Thomas Varnish loves his hobbies – knitting, baking, pottery, it’s a long list. His latest interest is analog film photography. A picture with his mother and another with his boyfriend are just a few of Varnish’s favorites. “These moments of human connection...
David Lanning, Course 22 professor emeritus and key contributor to the MIT Reactor, dies at 96
Described as making his point clear while remaining soft-spoken, he would state what he felt was needed, pull his glasses down over his nose, then peer over them. Former students and colleagues termed it the “Lanning Look” and say there was no...
Eli Sanchez: Modeling the threat of nuclear war
It’s a question that occupies significant bandwidth in the world of nuclear arms security: Could hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds of least five times the speed of sound, increase the likelihood of nuclear war? Eli Sanchez, who completed his doctoral studies...
Guoqing Wang: Exploring quantum phenomena through an engineering perspective
Guoqing Wang loves to play the erhu, a Chinese stringed musical instrument, remembering lessons he learned from his father as a young boy. He sees similarities between the music from the bowed instrument and the research subject he works on today: quantum...
NSE team wins ANS Student Design Competition
NSE graduate students Assil Halimi, Gyutae Park, Isabel Naranjo De Candido, and Loukas Carayannopoulos were recognized for their project titled “Design Optimization of an Organic-Cooled Light-Water-Moderated Micro-Reactor for Electricity and Hydrogen Generation”.
MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC
New five-year agreement will support SPARC science, increase graduate students and postdocs, and support interdisciplinary work toward fusion power plants.
2022 NSE Research Expo
Friday, April 1, 2022. 1:00 PM – 3:20 PM ET Koch Institute, 500 Main Street first floor Main Corridor and Galleries and Auditorium 76-156 The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering held its annual Research Expo on April 1, 2022. The...
Keeping humanity central to solving climate change
NSE’s Mike Short and a team of MIT scholars are helping to solve the economic, cultural, and political dimensions of the world’s energy and climate challenges.