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Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Jack Hare has received funding to participate in the development of next generation geothermal stimulation technology. Hare will work on a project led by Eden, a geoscience technology development company. Founded by two MIT Geophysics PhD students, Eden...

NSE alum, Jiayue Wang, has been awarded the 2022 NSLS-II Julian Baumert Thesis Award. Wang whose current appointment is in the MIT Laboratory for Electrochemical Interfaces, received his PhD in Nuclear Science and Engineering this year, under the supervision of Professor Bilge Yildiz.  Wang’s thesis, “Engineering Functional...

Pablo Ducru PhD’21, Del Favero NSE Thesis Prize winner (right) with James Del Favero SM’84 (left), and NSE Department Head, Anne White (center) Photo: Xinyan Wang Steven Jepeal G, the Del Favero Prize for Innovation in Nuclear Fusion winner (right) with James...

During an ROTC naval training cruise during college, Neil Todreas landed on the career to which he would devote his life.  “I had time on my hands and read a Scientific American booklet front to back that described the promise of nuclear...

Justin Kunimune, third-year graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) is one of four graduate students awarded a 2022 Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration Laboratory Residency Graduate Fellowship (DOE NNSA LRGF). At MIT Kunimune studies inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments in...

Clean electricity and stored heat from nuclear power and intermittent electricity from wind and solar can be efficiently converted to green hydrogen, fuels and chemicals using protonic ceramic electrolyzers with exceptional performance and stability. The reduction in the use of fossil fuels...

In the forward to his memoir in progress, Sidney Yip describes his life, and 50-plus-year career as a professor of nuclear science and engineering (NSE), as touched by “luck and contentment.” But while the 86-year-old emeritus professor finally has some time to...

MIT researchers discovered hidden magnetic properties in multi-layered electronic material by analysing polarized neutrons using neural networks. Superconductors have long been considered the principal approach for realizing electronics without resistivity. In the past decade, a new family of quantum materials, “topological materials,”...

If Changhao Li were to trace the origins of his love of nature, he would point to the time when he was nine, observing the night sky from his childhood home in the small town of Jinan, China. “At that moment I...

“I catch myself startling people in public.” Zoe Fisher’s animated hands carry part of the conversation as she describes how her naturally loud and expressive laughter turned heads in the streets of Yerevan. There during MIT’s Independent Activities period (IAP), she was...