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Rachel Bielajew honored as one of 40 Graduate Women of Excellence at MIT in 2023
The Office of Graduate Education at MIT honored 40 graduate women whose home departments represent each of MIT’s five schools at a reception on May 8, 2023. These impactful women were chosen for their leadership among their peers, their dedication to improving the MIT graduate student experience, their thoughtful and constructive feedback, and their ability to catalyze change. Each honoree prepared a poster detailing their path to MIT, presented to share their experiences at the event.
Optimizing construction and operation of nuclear energy facilities
For the United States to meet its net zero goals, nuclear energy needs to be on the smorgasbord of options. The problem: Its production still suffers from a lack of scale. To increase access rapidly, we need to stand up reactors quickly,...
COMMENCEMENT 2023
MIT’s commencement ceremony is on June 1st. Thirty-eight NSE students graduate this year. Graduating with Doctoral Degrees Bodhisatwa Biswas PhD Samuel Frank PhD Miriam Kreher PhD Changhao Li PhD Isaac Meyer PhD Lucio Milanese PhD Alexander O’Brien PhD Raspberry Simpson PhD Amelia...
Kaylee Cunningham: Winning over nuclear skeptics
First-year MIT NSE doctoral student Kaylee Cunningham is not the first person to notice that nuclear energy has a public relations problem. But her commitment to dispel myths about the alternative power source has earned her the moniker “Ms. Nuclear Energy” on...
Team uses 3D printing to strengthen a key material in aerospace, energy-generation applications
The approach could improve the performance of many other materials as well.
Nuclear Science and Engineering Annual Awards 2023
The Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society hosted their annual awards event on May 18, 2023.
Alexander O'Brien: Printing a new approach to fusion powerplant materials
When Alexander O’Brien sent in his application for graduate school at MIT NSE, he had a germ of a research idea already brewing. So when he received a phone call from Prof. Mingda Li, he shared it: The student from Arkansas wanted...
NSE teams win three awards at 2023 ICAPP
Presentations are Emile Germonpré, Emile Gateau, and Faris Fakhry from the NSE Microreactor Group won three Best Paper Awards at the 2023 International Congress on Advances in Nuclear Power Plantsheld in South Korea in April.
Exploring the bow shock and beyond
SPOTLIGHT: PhD student Rishabh Datta seeks to further understanding of astrophysical phenomena.
Florian Chavagnat: Understanding boiling to help the nuclear industry and space missions
To launch extended missions in space, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is borrowing a page from the nuclear engineering industry: It is trying to understand how boiling works. Planning for long-term missions has NASA researching ways of packing the least...