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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...
Ericmoore Jossou: Optimizing nuclear fuels for next-generation reactors
In 2010, when Ericmoore Jossou was attending college in northern Nigeria, the lights would flicker in and out all day, sometimes lasting only for a couple of hours at a time. The frustrating experience reaffirmed Jossou’s realization that the country’s sporadic energy...
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...
Making nuclear energy facilities easier to build and transport
At MIT, Isabel Naranjo De Candido is working on improving access to nuclear energy by scaling down reactor size and, in the case of microreactors, making them mobile enough to travel to places where they’re needed. Photo: Gretchen Ertl
Jill Rahon: Soaring high in the Army — and in research
Starting off as a junior helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Jill  Rahon deployed to Afghanistan three times. During the last one, she was an air mission commander, the  pilot who is designated to interface with the ground troops throughout the mission. Today, Rahon...
2023 Del Favero Thesis Prize
Xu will deliver the Del Favero Thesis Prize Lecture on the topic of his PhD work — optical control over nuclear degrees of freedom.
Sidney Yip wins Monie A. Ferst Award
Established in 1977, the Sigma Xi’s Monie A. Ferst Award honors “science and engineering teachers who have inspired their students to significant research achievements”.
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...
Haruko Wainwright: Helping the Cause of Environmental Resilience
Haruko Wainwright, the Norman C. Rasmussen Career Development Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) and Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), grew up in rural Japan where many nuclear facilities are located. She remembers worrying about the facilities as...
Preparing students for the new nuclear
MIT Leaders for Global Operations’ collaboration with the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering trains leaders for a rapidly evolving industry.