2020 Winners
Open Competition
Competition for Students Who Attend Universities with Less Than $600 Million in 2018 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures
Alexa HansonUniversity of UtahQuantifying Impurity Effects on the Surface Morphology of α-U3O8
Mikaela PyrchUniversity of IowaExploring Crown-Ether Functionalization on the Stabilization of Hexavalent Neptunium
Alexander WheelerUniversity of Tennessee at KnoxvillePlutonium Diversion Effect on Molten-Salt Reactor Dynamics
Richard HernandezUniversity of Tennessee at KnoxvilleReview of Pool Boiling Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and Heater Rod Design for CHF Experiments in TREAT
Ember SikorskiBoise State UniversityFirst-principles Comparative Study of UN and Zr Corrosion
Undergraduate Competition
Kaylee CunninghamUniversity of FloridaModeling the IFR-1 Metal Fuel Experiment in Bison through the NEAMS Workbench
Jordan NoeyUniversity of MichiganThe Effects of Radiation and Emitted Light Transport on the Positional Response of 11 cm x 42.5 cam x 5.5 cm Nal(TI) Detectors
Jack ThiesenUniversity of MichiganPreliminary Demonstration of a Method of Radiation Dosimetry using Passive, Integrating LiF:Mg, Ti Thermoluminescent Dosimeters