Student Competition Award Winners

Awards of Excellence

Aaron Huxford

Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan

A hybrid domain overlapping method for coupling System Thermal Hydraulics and CFD codes

Nicholas McKibben

Reactor Development and Plant Optimization, Boise State University

Aerosol Jet Printing of Piezoelectric Surface Acoustic Wave Thermometer

Matthew Newton

Fuel Cycle Technologies, Univeristy of Utah

Effect of Metal Chloride Impurities on Equilibrium Potential of Fe/FeCl2 in Eutectic LiCl-KCl

Jonathan George

Spent Fuel Disposition, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Structural Investigation of Technetium Dibutylphosphate Species Using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure Spectroscopy

​Special Recognition

Emma Archer

Colorado School of Mines

Investigation of f-Element Interactions with Functionalized Diamides of Phenanthroline-Based Ligands

John Bussey

Washington State University

Examining phase separation and crystallization in glasses with X-ray nano-computed tomography

John Acierno

Pennsylvania State University

On the role of low frequency modes in the thermal and momentum mixing in parallel plane jets

​Olivia Dale

University of Utah

Ni/NiO Reference Electrode Potential Measurements in Molten CaCl2-CaO

Competition for Graduate Students Attending Minority Serving Institutions or Belonging to a Disadvantaged Community

Emily Maulden

University of Florida

Properties of iron-functionalized organoclays. Consequences for pertechnetate sequestration​

Ilana Szlamkowicz

University of Central Florida

Structural contributions of different manganese oxide minerals on the redox transformations and proliferation of iodine

Undergraduate Competition

Spencer Doran

Oregon State University

Microstructure and micromechanical responses of bulk nanostructured high entropy alloy after heavy-ion irradiation at 500℃

NEUP – Nuclear Energy University Program