Graduate and Postdoc

Forty-four NSE students graduate this year in the MIT’s commencement ceremony on May 29th.

Allium Engineering, founded by Sam McAlpine PhD ’22 and Steven Jepeal PhD ’21), developed a process for improving steel rebar to triple the lifetime of bridges and other infrastructure

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”.

New experiments show that the immediate effect of atomic displacements, known as the “beam on effect,” should not be an issue during fusion power plant operations.

Fusion’s future depends on decoding plasma’s mysteries. Simulations can help keep research on track and reveal more efficient ways to generate fusion energy.

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.

When Zoe Fisher was in fourth grade her art teacher asked her to draw her vision of a dream job on paper. At the time, those goals changed like the flavor of the week in an ice cream shop—”zookeeper” featured prominently for...