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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...
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.
Exploring the bow shock and beyond
SPOTLIGHT: PhD student Rishabh Datta seeks to further understanding of astrophysical phenomena.
Exploring new sides of climate and sustainability research
With the support of each other and MIT faculty, students in the MCSC’s Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program are making their impact on real-world climate challenges.
Mingda Li wins NSF grant to study sustainable topological materials
Li along with his co-PIs from MIT, UCSB, and Boston College will work to accelerate research in topological quantum materials.
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...
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.
Assil Halimi: Working to Make Nuclear Energy More Competitive
Assil Halimi has always loved science since he was a child, but it was a singular experience at a college internship that stoked his interest in nuclear engineering. As part of work on a conceptual design for an aircraft electric propulsion system,...
The task of magnetic classification suddenly looks easier
Knowing the magnetic structure of crystalline materials is critical to many applications, including data storage, high-resolution imaging, spintronics, superconductivity, and quantum computing. Information of this sort, however, is difficult to come by. Although magnetic structures can be obtained from neutron diffraction and...