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3 Questions: From the bench to the battlefield
NSE rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards discusses a new UROP fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.
More durable metals for fusion power reactors
In the race to achieve carbon-free commercial fusion energy, one stumbling block has been that key structural metals inside proposed fusion reactors can fail in just a few months. MIT engineers have demonstrated that adding nanoparticles of certain ceramics to the metals can protect them from damage and significantly extend their lifetime. Above: Professor Ju Li (right) and postdoc So Yeon Kim examine samples of the composite they have fabricated for their demonstrations. Credit: Gretchen Ertl
Richard K Lester honored with the 2024 Gordon Y. Billard Award
Richard K Lester, vice provost for international activities and Japan Steel Industry Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, honored with the 2024 Gordon Y. Billard Award. The award is given to individuals who have had impact beyond normal job duties, and created important, lasting, and wide-ranging contributions to the MIT community.
Community members receive 2024 MIT Excellence Awards, Collier Medal, and Staff Award for Distinction in Service
Benjamin Lewis (left), a graduate student in the Institute for Data, Systems and Society in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, was the 2024 recipient of the Collier Medal for his work as founder of the Cambridge branch of End Overdose, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing drug-related overdose deaths. MIT President Sally Kornbluth presented his award at the ceremony. Photo: Steph Stevens Photography
COMMENCEMENT 2024
MIT’s commencement ceremony is on May 30th. Forty NSE students graduate this year. Graduating with Doctoral Degrees Jacob Adams PhDPatrick Adrian PhDGustavo Aguiar PhDRachel Bielajew PhDFlorian Chavagnat PhDBenjamin Dacus PhDRichard Ibekwe ScDEthan Klein PhDPeter Lalor PhDChristina Migliore PhDThanh Nguyen PhDMadhumitha Ravichandran PhDEli Sanchez PhDYu-Jou Wang PhD Graduating with...
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...
Zach Hartwig honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2023–25
The Committed to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Hartwig is one of twenty-three MIT professors have been selected as recipients of the award for 2023-25, marking the most extensive cohort of honorees to date.
2024 NSE Research Expo
The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering hosts its annual Research Expo on April 26, 2024. The event will showcase NSE research from across the Department.
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”.
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