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Ju Li: a proven mentor and friend

Office of Graduate Education Committed to Caring honors Professors Ju Lifor mentoring excellence.

New team to lead MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory

Gordon Kohse, Jacopo Buongiorno, and Lance Snead will co-lead the laboratory; David Moncton will step down after 15 years of service.

Benoit Forget named Associate Head of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Professor Anne White, the head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) announced today the appointment of Professor Benoit Forget as Associate Department Head, effective immediately.

Brandon Sorbom: One of MIT Tech Review's 2019 35InnovatorsUnder35

His high-temperature superconductors could make fusion power plants much cheaper to build

Anne White named head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Fusion energy and turbulence modeling expert will succeed Dennis Whyte

2019 COMMENCEMENT

Thirty-seven NSE students graduate this year on June 7

Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam

New method, developed by NSE’s Ju Li, Cong Su, and collaborators, could be useful for building quantum sensors and computers.

VIDEO: Nuclear Science and Engineering at MIT

Nuclear Science and Engineering spreads its wings

New undergraduate degree provides expansive vision of nuclear studies and nuclear careers

2019 NSE + ANS Annual Awards

The Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society hosted their anual awards dinner on May 13, 2019.

Assessing MIT’s computing infrastructure needs

Ben Forget co-chairs the Working Group on College Infrastructure which is exploring needs across all parts of the Institute in planning for the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

Breakthrough in boiling

High-fidelity simulations by MIT nuclear researchers point the way to optimizing heat transfer in current and next-generation reactors.

Getting to the bottom of the ’boiling crisis”

New understanding of heat transfer in boiling water could lead to efficiency improvements in power plants.

Jon Tramm delivers 2018 Del Favero Prize Lecture

Tramm, the 2018 Del Favero Thesis Prize winner, presented his work in a lecture titled “Supercomputers, Physics, and Randomness: Rethinking Neutron Transport From the Ground Up” on April 2, 2019

New approach could boost energy capacity of lithium batteries

“Hybrid” cathodes described by NSE professor Ju Li, postdoc Weijiang Xue, and 13 others, could provide more power for a given weight and volume.

2019 NSE Graduate Research Expo

The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering’s Graduate Student Expo showcases groundbreaking research from NSE’s various labs and provides an opportunity for prospective students to learn about being conducted within NSE by faculty and graduate students.

Quantum sensing method measures minuscule magnetic fields

MIT researchers find a new way to make nanoscale measurements of fields in more than one dimension.

Entrepreneur Vinod Khosla: “Focus on the consequences of success”

In 2019 David Rose Lecture, Sun Microsystems co-founder urges bold plans to address global challenges.

Technique to streamline fabrication of 2-D circuits

Growing material directly onto substrates and recycling chip patterns should enable faster, simpler manufacturing.

2019 David J. Rose Lecture

A conversation with Vinod Khosla on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Energy Development

Using artificial intelligence to engineer materials’ properties

New system of “strain engineering” can change a material’s optical, electrical, and thermal properties.

Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery

Nuno Loureiro is one five receiving the prestigious award. The supported innovative projects challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.

PODCAST: Game-changing fusion

Dennis Whyte spoke with Frank O'Sullivan of the MIT Energy Initiative about the history and future of fusion.

Pitching transformative design

Undergraduates put their ideas on the line in competition showcasing novel and consequential applications of nuclear science and engineering

MIT Fusion Landscape

In series of talks, experts describe major effort to address climate change through carbon-free power.