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NSE rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards discusses a new UROP fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies.

Prof Mike Short launched Anthro-Engineering with Prof Manduhai Buyandelger in 2021. The program provides students the opportunity for deep engagement, relationship building, and personal understanding needed to find real solutions for real people.

The Committed to Caring (C2C) program at MIT is a student-driven initiative that celebrates faculty members who have served as exceptional mentors to graduate students. Hartwig is one of twenty-three MIT professors have been selected as recipients of the award for 2023-25, marking the most extensive cohort of honorees to date.

Understanding boiling to help the nuclear industry & space missions Ms. Nuclear Energy is winning over nuclear skeptics Graduate Women of Excellence at MIT in 2023 Sensing and controlling microscopic spin density in materials Nuclear power’s role at a critical moment in...

Recognized in the Fobes 30 Under 30 — Manufacturing & Industry category for 2024, Jepeal and McAlpine cofounded Allium to develop coatings for structural engineering and construction projects that enable buildings and bridges to last centuries instead of decades.

In 2021, the United States, United Kingdom and Australia formed a partnership, dubbed AUKUS, which will allow the Australian Navy to purchase several nuclear-powered submarines in an effort to modernize their fleet. Building a nuclear submarine program from scratch is anything but...

Paola Cappellaro, Ford Professor of Engineering, Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Professor of Physics, has been named a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, Cappellaro was cited, “[f]or groundbreaking...

If the words “nuclear power” make you think of Three Mile Island or Fukushima, then Jacopo Buongiorno has a class for you. The Tokyo Electric Power Company Professor in Nuclear Engineering and Director of the Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems (CANES),...

Starting off as a junior helicopter pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Jill  Rahon deployed to Afghanistan three times. During the last one, she was an air mission commander, the  pilot who is designated to interface with the ground troops throughout the mission. Today, Rahon...

Keziah Garba, an intern at the Center for Energy Research and Training in Nigeria, says her own example illustrates the yawning gender gap in the nuclear sector. In an institution which hosts the country’s first nuclear research reactor, she is one of...