2017 Awards
Michael Short wins Junior Bose Teaching Award
Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Michael Short has been awarded the 2017 Junior Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching. This award is given annually to an outstanding contributor to education from among the junior faculty of the School of Engineering. ... more
R. Scott Kemp named 2017 American Physical Society Fellow
R. Scott Kemp, Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the Forum on Physics and Society, Kemp was cited, “[f]or innovative applications of physics to arms control verification, and pivotal scientific contributions to nuclear nonproliferation diplomacy and the understanding of technology-policy interactions in international security”. ... see citation
NSE wins two awards at NURETH-17
Artyom Kossolapov, Md Mahamudur Rahman, Chi Wang , Giacomo Saccone, and NSE professors Matteo Bucci and Jacopo Buongiorno win awards for their presentations at NURETH-17. ... more
NSE graduate student Miriam Rathbun wins Computational Science Graduate Fellowship
Miriam Rathbun, a graduate student in Benoit Forget’s group at MIT, has been awarded a 2017 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF) to support her Computational Reactor Physics research. ... more
Dennett, Magolan, Creely win 2017 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards
NSE’s Cody Dennett, Benjamin Magolan, and Alexander Creely have won awards in the 2017 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Technology R&D. ... more
Nuno Loureiro wins prestigious NSF CAREER award
Newly tenured Asosciate Professor Nuno Loureiro, is among a select group of young scientists awarded the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in 2017. more
NSE’s Jacopo Buongiorno named 2017 Fellow of American Nuclear Society
TEPCO Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Jacopo Buongiorno, has been elected to the rank of Fellow within the American Nuclear Society. He is recognized for contributions to “the advancement of nuclear science and technology through the years.” ... more
2017 NSE Awards
The Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society hosted the annual awards dinner on on May 16, 2017. Meet the award winners. more
NSE’s Batista recognized for exceptional service and support
The MIT School of Engineering hosted its 17th annual Infinite Mile Awards ceremony on May 15, to recognize and reward members of the school’s administrative, support, service, and sponsored research staff whose work is of the highest caliber. The awards support the Institute’s and the School of Engineering’s objectives for excellence. more
Yildiz students take gold and silver at Materials Research Society conference
Qiyang Lu and Lixin Sun won Graduate Student Awards at the 2017 Spring Materials Research Society conference. more
NSE’s Hether Barry wins the 2017 James N. Murphy Award
Established in 1967 the James N. Murphy Award is given to a non-faculty employee whose spirit and loyalty exemplify this kind of inspired and dedicated service, especially with regard to students. more
NSE’s Dennis Whyte is committed to caring
Professor Dennis Whyte has made a significant impact in affecting positive change as the head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. more
NSE graduate student Yang Yang wins two awards at 2017 ANS Student Conference
NSE graduate student Yang Yang won the Best in Materials Science and Technology Award for his podium presentation entitled “The Necessity of Full-3D Monte Carlo Simulations for Ion Irradiation” at the 2017 American Nuclear Society Student Conference. ... more
NSE’s Gaston and Liu win awards at the 2017 M&C conference
Third-year graduate students, Derek Gaston and Zhaoyuan Liu, from the Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG) won awards for their presentations at the 2017 International Conference on Mathematics and Computational Methods Applied to Nuclear Science and Engineering (M&C 2017). Gaston won the award for his presentation entitled “Verification of MOCkingbird, an Unstructured-Mesh, Method of Characteristics Implementation Using the MOOSE Multiphysics Framework”. Liu won the award for his presentation entitled “Progress of Cumulative Migration Method for Computing Diffusion Coeffcients with OpenMC”.
NSE’s Ju Li named 2017 Materials Research Society Fellow
Batelle Energy Alliance Professor Ju Li of MIT’s Nuclear Science and Engineering department has been named a 2017 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow — one of sixteen scholars honored in 2017 worldwide. ... more
Mike Short wins prestigious NSF CAREER award
Assistant Professor Michael Short, is among a select group of young scientists awarded the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. ... more
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