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December 5, 2012
The AggiE-Challenge team led by NSSPI faculty member Dr. Sunil
Chirayath placed first in the AggiE-Challenge Showcase student
poster presentation competition held on Monday, December 3rd.
The showcase marked the end of the first semester of work for the
AggiE-Challenge teams. The AggiE-Challenge program is
sponsored by the Dwight Look College of Engineering at TAMU and
aims at actively engaging undergraduate students with
multidisciplinary team projects related to the major engineering
challenges facing our society as articulated by publications like
the National Academy...
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July 30, 2012
NSSPI student Jessica Feener was named the 2012 recipient of the
Robert J. Sorenson Memorial Scholarship given by the Institute of
Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) at their annual meeting this
July in Orlando, Florida. Feener earned a B.S. degree
in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering from the Georgia Institute
of Technology and an M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering from TAMU.
She is a Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. William Charlton on
nuclear weapons verification techniques and is currently conducting
her research at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak R...
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May 14, 2012
Royal Elmore and Claudio Gariazzo have been selected to receive
fellowships from the Nuclear Nonproliferation International
Safeguards Graduate Fellowship Program. The program is
sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) and the National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and is intended to help meet
the needs of both organizations for personnel with expertise in
nuclear nonproliferation research and development. The
fellowship is renewable for up to four years and includes payment
of tuition and a monthly stipend. Fellows will gain hands-on
experience dur...
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May 7, 2012
Jennifer Erchinger has been named the winner of the 2012-2013
Robert S. Landauer, Sr. Memorial Fellowship from the Health Physics
Society. Erchinger is a Health Physics Master's student who
is currently working with Dr. Craig Marianno on a project to
construct a scalable radiation portal for livestock.
The fellowship includes a $6000 stipend to support Erchinger's
graduate work for the coming year as well as a $800 travel grant to
cover her trip to the 2013 HPS Annual Meeting in Madison,
Wisconsin. The fellowship was established in honor of Dr. Robert S.
Landauer, Sr. and hi...
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April 23, 2012
NSSPI student Alison Goodsell was awarded the Isotopes and
Radiation Session Award at the 2012 American Nuclear Society (ANS)
Student Conference, which was held April 12-15 in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Goodsell presented research on the use of a quartz-crystal
x-ray spectrometer to improve the detection of the Pu and U x-ray
peaks in spent fuel by reducing the Compton background. The
overall scope of the presentation was on the design process for the
quartz crystal and the customized tungsten collimator system.
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April 18, 2012
Matt Grypp was awarded first place among graduate participants
at the South Texas Chapter of the Health Physics Society's annual
Student Presentation Competition. Grypp is a Ph.D. student working
with Dr. Craig Marianno on the SHIELD Project (Smuggled HEU
Interdiction through Enhanced anaLysis and Detection) to develop
detector systems to be used in border monitoring. His presentation,
"Gamma Radiation Detection from a Spreader-Bar Crane at the Port of
Tacoma," focused on gamma measurement experiments conducted in
August 2011 at the Port of Tacoma's Rail Test Center. Radiation
detec...
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May 12, 2011
Jeremy Rogers, a health physics graduate student working with
Dr. Craig Marianno, was awarded the 2011-2012 J. Newell Stannard
Fellowship. The fellowship includes a $5,000 stipend to support
Rogers' graduate work in addition to a travel grant to attend the
2012 Health Physics Society Annual Meeting in Sacramento,
California. Rogers is currently pursuing his master's degree and
working on his thesis, "Portable Detection System Photomultiplier
Tube Replacement with an Integrated Circuit." The fellowship
was established in honor of Dr. Stannard in recognition of his many
years of...
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September 7, 2010
NSSPI students Jessica Feener and Braden Goddard have been
awarded graduate fellowships from the Nuclear Nonproliferation
International Safeguards (NNIS) graduate fellowship program. This
is the first year of the program, which is sponsored by the
Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA). It aims at encouraging students to pursue
graduate studies in nonproliferation and international safeguards
in order to meet the "need for appropriately and highly trained
personnel for the research and development in areas related to
ongoing DOE/NNSA spons...
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August 5, 2010
NSSPI student Braden Goddard has been awarded a 2010 U.S.
Department of Energy Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Award for
his paper, "Real-time Detection of UREX+3a Extraction Streams for
Materials Accountancy." Goddard won third place in the category of
Nuclear Materials Accountability and Control Instrumentation, an
award that carries with it a cash prize of $2000.
The awards are given by the Office of Fuel Cycle Technologies of
the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to recognize innovation in
fuel-cycle-relevant research being conducted by graduate and
undergraduate students.
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August 4, 2010
NSSPI graduate, Dr. Karen Miller, was awarded the J. D. Williams
Student Paper Award by the Institute of Nuclear Materials
Management (INMM) at their annual meeting July 11-15, 2010 in
Baltimore, MD for her paper "The Uranium Cylinder Assay System for
Enrichment Plant Safeguards." This paper is the result of research
she conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Miller earned her doctorate from TAMU in May of 2010 and is
continuing her work with the N-1 Safeguards Science and Technology
group at LANL.
The award was created in 2003 and named for James D. Williams, INMM
...
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January 21, 2010
Braden Goddard, a NSSPI doctoral student, has been chosen to
receive a $5000 scholarship from the Roy G. Post Foundation on
March 9th 2010 at the Waste Management 2010 (WM2010) Awards
Luncheon to be held in Phoenix, AZ. Goddard received his B.S. and
M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University and is
currently working with Dr. Charlton on a research project to
quantitatively verify the mass of a multi actinide mixture using
non-destructive methods. The Roy G. Post Foundation (named after a
former Arizona Professor) was created to support students and
encourage them to e...
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July 20, 2009
Braden Goddard won the J. D. Williams Student Paper Award at the
2009 Annual Meeting of the Institute for Nuclear Materials
Management (INMM), which was held in Tucson, Arizona July 12-16,
2009. His paper, "Real-Time Detection of UREX+3a Extraction Streams
for Materials Accountancy," was co-authored by Dr. Charlton and Dr.
McDeavitt and was in competition with 32 other student papers.
Goddard was also awarded a cash prize of $1000.
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March 12, 2009
NSSPI student, Karen Miller, has been selected the winner of a
paper contest held by the Standing Committee on International
Security of Radioactive and Nuclear Materials under the
Nonproliferation and Arms Control Division of the INMM. Her paper,
"When is Noncompliance, Noncompliance?" was presented at the "Third
Annual Workshop on Reducing the Risk from Nuclear and Radioactive
Materials" held March 10-11, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her
paper will now be submitted for publication to the Journal of
Nuclear Materials Management. Follow the link, below, to
read this paper in its...
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August 22, 2008
NSSPI student, James Miller, was awarded the Nuclear Forensics
Fellowship from DNDO/DTRA and the Robert J. Sorenson Memorial
Scholarship from the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management
(INMM) this summer. Miller is one of six recipients of the Nuclear
Forensics Fellowship, a fellowship awarded through a program whose
stated goal is "to encourage talented students to continue their
education and seek a graduate education in radiochemistry research
related to the nuclear forensics program." The Robert J. Sorenson
Memorial Scholarship was awarded on Wednesday July 16th, 2008 at
the ...
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July 30, 2008
NSSPI student, Adrienne LaFleur, was named the winner of the
Student Best Paper Award at the 8th International Conference on
Facility Operations-Safeguards Interface in Portland, Oregon. The
title of her paper was "Nondestructive Measurements of Fissile
Material Using Self-Indication Neutron Resonance Absorption
Densitometry (SINRAD)."
...
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