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In the fall of 2009, when Ethan Peterson arrived at MIT as an undergraduate, he already had some ideas about possible career options. He’d always liked building things, even as a child, so he imagined his future work would involve engineering of...

Areg Danagoulian, associate professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the American Physical Society Forum on Physics and Society (FPS), Danagoulian was cited, “for seminal technological contributions in the field of arms...

Liam Hines might have moved to Sarasota, Florida only as a highschooler but he’s a Floridian through and through. He jokes that he’s even got a floral shirt, what he calls a “Florida Formal,” for every occasion. Which is why it broke...

MIT’s commencement ceremony is on May 30th. Forty NSE students graduate this year. Graduating with Doctoral Degrees Jacob Adams PhDPatrick Adrian PhDGustavo Aguiar PhDRachel Bielajew PhDFlorian Chavagnat PhDBenjamin Dacus PhDRichard Ibekwe ScDEthan Klein PhDPeter Lalor PhDChristina Migliore PhDThanh Nguyen PhDMadhumitha Ravichandran PhDEli Sanchez PhDYu-Jou Wang PhD Graduating with...

Thomas Varnish loves his hobbies—knitting, baking, pottery, it’s a long list. His latest interest is analog film photography. A picture with his mother and another with his boyfriend are just a few of Varnish’s favorites. “These moments of human connection are the...

Marco Graffiedi (center), Manson Benedict Award winner, with Prof Matteo Bucci (left) and Prof Jacopo Buongiorno (right). Photo: Peter Brenton Mateo Pisinger (center), Roy Axford Award winner, with Prof Matteo Bucci (left) and Prof Jacopo Buongiorno (right). Photo: Peter Brenton Matthew Hughes...

Described as making his point clear while remaining soft-spoken, he would state what he felt was needed, pull his glasses down over his nose, then peer over them. Former students and colleagues termed it the “Lanning Look” and say there was no...

Friday, April 26, 2024. 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM ETKoch Institute, 500 Main Streetfirst floor Main Corridor and Galleries and Auditorium 76-156 The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering hosts its annual Research Expo on April 26, 2024. The event will...

It’s a question that occupies significant bandwidth in the world of nuclear arms security: Could hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds of least five times the speed of sound, increase the likelihood of nuclear war? Eli Sanchez, who completed his doctoral studies...

The “map”, or the phonon stability boundary, a graphical representation that plots the stability regions of a crystal as a function of strain. This map helps scientists and engineers determine the conditions under which a material can exist in a particular phase...