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2015 Awardees

Open Competition

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​Advanced Fuels	​
​​ Stephen Raiman First Place University of Michigan A Facility for Studying Irradiation Accelerated Corrosion in High Temperature Water	Andrew Dykhuis Second Place Massachusetts Institute of Technology HOGNOSE: A New Model for Corrosion in PWRs​​

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​​Energy Policy	​
Urairisa Phathanapirom Frist Place University of Texas at Austin Hedging Against Uncertainty in the Nuclear Fuel Cyle	Andrea Gardiner Second Place Vanderbilt University Development and Testing of a Decision Framework and Decision Tool for Determining Fuel Cycle Preferences​

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​Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy	​
Devin Rappleye First Place University of Utah Simulated Response of ElectrochemicalSensors for Monitoring Molten-Salt Fueled Reactors	Matthew Marcath Second Place University of Michigan An Implicit Correlation Method for Cross-Correlation Sampling, with MCNPX-PoliMi Validation​

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​Material Recovery and Waste Form Development	​
Daniel Griffin First Place Georgia Institute of Technology Controlled Crystallization of Salts from Nuclear Waste Solutions	Kimberly Mullane Second Place University of Pennsylvania Anomalous One-electron Processes in the Chemistry of Uranium Nitrogen Multiple Bonds​

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​Nuclear Science and Engineering	​
William Boyd First Place Massachusetts Institute of Technology The OpenMOC Method of Characteristics Neutral Particle Transport Code	Jonathan Wormald Second Place North Carolina State University Examination of the Impact of Electron-Phonon Coupling on Fission Enhanced Diffusion in Uranium Dioxide Using Classical Molecular Dynamics​

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​Used Fuel Disposition	​
Elizabeth Pedrick First Place University of California at Santa Barbara Reductive Silylation of a Uranyl Dibenzoylmethanate Complex: An Example of Controlled Uranyl Oxo Ligand Cleavage	Remy Devoe Second Place University of Tennessee COBRA-SFS Dry Cask Modeling Sensitivities in High-Capacity Canisters​
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Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2012 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures

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​ Samantha Cary Florida State University Emergence of Californium as the Second  Transitional Element in the Actinide Series​​  ​ Charles Folsom Utah State University Experimental Measurement and Numerical  Modeling of the Effective Thermal Conductivity ​   Christopher Morrison Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Feasibility Study of Solid Matrix  Fuels for Space Power Reactors​	Ryan Collette Colorado School of Mines  Automated Characterization of Uranium Molybdenum Fuel Microstructures ​​​   Elizabeth Krahn Washington State University Probing Ligand Exchange Kinetics in Actinide/Lanthanide Solvent Extraction Systems using NMR Spectrometry​ ​ ​
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Undergraduate Competition

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​ Amanda Lewis Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Data Analysis for Neutron CaptureMeasurements in Lead Slowing Down Spectrometer​

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