Awards to NSSC Personnel from 2016 – 2023:
| Sandra Bogetic | UTK | Faculty |
“Nuclear Engineering Professor of the year award” at UTK
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Grad. Kimberly Pestovich, 1st place, Oak Ridge ASM and UT Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Student Night Poster Session, 02/2024.
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Grad. Kimberly Pestovich, Conference Assistantship, for 27th International Conference on the Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry (CAARI) and the 55th Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel (SNEAP), 03/2024.
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Grad. Kimberly Pestovich, Travel Awards, UT MSE Department, Academic and Student Affairs, Access and Engagement to present as an invited speaker at the 9th Asian Conference on Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology, 2/2024.
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| Noah Walton | UTK | Graduate Student |
2023-2024 Top PhD Student Award in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at UTK
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| Rebecca Lalk | UTK | Graduate Student |
“Excellence in Service” by the UT Graduate Student Senate, University of Tennessee.
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| Max Fratoni | UCB | Faculty | ANS Untermyer & Cisler Reactor Technology Medal |
| Peter Boone | UCB | Graduate Student |
Peter Boone, Global Security 2024 Directorate Silver Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Global Security Principal Directorate, 04/2024
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Grad, Kim Pestovich, Excellence in Graduate Research, UTK Graduate Student Senate, 04/2024.
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Grad, Kim Pestovich, Outstanding Graduate Student Organization – GradSWE (Society of Women Engineers), UTK Graduate Student Senate, 04/2024.
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Grad, Kim Pestovich, “Outstanding Academic Student Organization – Materials Research Society,” UTK Center for Student Engagement, 04/2024.
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| Lexanne Weghorn | UTK | Graduate Student |
Lexanne Weghorn, IReNA Visiting Fellowship, IReNA, May 2024
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| Noah Walton | UTK | Graduate Student |
Noah Walton, PhD Graduate Research Excellence Award, UTK, 04/24
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| Noah Walton | UTK | Graduate Student | Noah Walton, Best Oral Presentation, UPR, 06/24 |
| Grant Roche | UIUC | Undergraduate |
Grant Roche, NPRE Rising Undergraduate Research Award, NPRE Department/Grainger College of Engineering, April 2024
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| Ian Chi | UCD | Undergraduate |
Ian Chi, Citation for Outstanding Performance – Mathematics Department, UC Davis Mathematics Department, 06/2024;
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| Ian Chi | UCD | Undergraduate |
Ian Chi, Citation for Outstanding Performance – Physics Department, UC Davis Physics Department, 06/2024
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| James Kingston | UCD | Graduate Student |
Grad, James Kingston, Best National Laboratory Collaboration, UPR, June/2024
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| Jacob Fritchie | UIUC | Graduate Student |
Graduate, Jacob Fritchie, Best Poster Presentation Award, UPR, June/2024
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| Chuck Melcher | UTK | Faculty | 2025 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award |
| Jasmina Vujic | UCB | Faculty |
Jasmina Vujic, “Nikola Tesla” Award for Scientific/Research Work and Technological Innovations; awarded by the Karic Foundation, Serbia, December 2023.
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Kimberly Pestovich, First Place, Graduate Rapid Fire Collegiate Competition, Society of Women Engineers, October 2023. Research Lightning Talk.
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| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student |
Kimberly Pestovich, Travel Award, Society of Women Engineers and UTK Graduate Student Senate, October 2023.
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| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student |
Daniel Rutstrom, First Place for NSS Student Paper Award; awarded at the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC), November 2023.
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| Joey Gordon | UCB | Graduate Student |
Joey Gordon, Best Student Paper on Nuclear Data, University of California – Berkeley, December 23.
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| Tracy Edwards | MSU | Graduate Student |
Tracy Edwards received the State of Michigan Spirit of Hope Governor’s Award.
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| Nolan Kowitt | UCB | Undergraduate | Nolan Kowitt, NRC University Nuclear Leadership Program, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, August/2023. |
| Megan Schiferl | UCB | Graduate Student | Megan Schiferl, Best Poster Award, 11th International Conference of F-Elements, 08/2023. |
| Hannah Berg | MSU | Graduate Student | Hannah C. Berg, Asian Nuclear Physics Association & AAPS-DNP Award for Young Scientist, Asian Nuclear Physics Association & AAPS-DNP, 09/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Kimberly Pestovich, Travel award, University of Tennessee Society of Women Engineers, 08/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Kimberly Pestovich, Travel award, Society of Women Engineers, 08/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Kimberly Pestovich, Travel award, American Association for Crystal Growth, 07/2023 |
| Rebecca Lalk | UTK | Graduate Student | Rebecca Lalk, Best Graduate Student Poster, The Center of Materials Processing at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 08/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Kimberly Pestovich, 3rd place Science as Art, University of Tennessee Knoxville Materials Research Society, 05/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Kimberly Pestovich, Service Award, University of Tennessee Knoxville Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 05/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Kimberly Pestovich, Travel Award, University of Tennessee Knoxville Graduate Student Senate, 04/2023 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Kimberly Pestovich, Best graduate lightning talk, ANS Student Conference, 04/2023 |
| Rebecca Lalk | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Rebecca Lalk, Induction into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, University of Tennessee Knoxville Chapter, May/2023 |
| Olivia Stojak | UIUC | Undergraduate | Undergrad, Olivia Stojak, NPRE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2023 |
| Ousmane Ndiaye | UIUC | Graduate Student | Ousmane Ndiaye,Sloan University Center for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) at the University of Illinois, May 2023 |
| Jenna Garcia | TAMU | Graduate Student | Graduate, Jenna Garcia, NSSC Best Oral Presentation, UPR, June 2023 |
| Kara Wilke | TAMU | Undergraduate | Undergrad, Kara Wilke, Best Poster Presentation – Undergrad Category, Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, April/2023 |
| James McGreivy | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergrad, James McGreivy, Departmental Citation Award in Physics, UC Berkeley, 5/23 |
| Sasha Kennedy | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad, Alexandra (Sasha) Kennedy, Virgil E. Schrock Award for Outstanding Mentorship, UC Berkeley, May 2023 |
| Dominic Lioce | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad, Dominic Lioce, Best NSSC Poster Award, UPR/NNSA, 06/2023. |
| Leila Shook | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergrad, Leila Shook, College of Chemistry Research Grant, College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, April/2023 |
| Joe Brackbill | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad, Joe Brackbill, Best Inorganic Platform Talk, University of California Chemical Symposium Executive Committee, April 2023. |
| Jake Hecla | UCB | Graduate Student | Jake Hecla, Stanton Fellowship, MIT |
| Juan Manfredi | AFIT | Faculty | Faculty, Juan Manfredi, “Leslie M. Norton Teaching Excellence Award” |
| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad; Rutstrom, Daniel; award – 3rd Place in the Graduate category at the Annual Student Poster Night, which consisted of a cash award from the Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM and travel award from the Center for Materials Processing; February 2023. |
| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad; Rutstrom, Daniel; “Development of Ultrafast Scintillator Cs2ZnCl4”; Annual Student Poster Night hosted by the Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM, Center for Materials Processing, and the Southeast Section of the American Association for Crystal Growth (AACG) at the University of Tennessee; February 2023; collaborators – Luis Stand, Charles L. Melcher, Mariya Zhuravleva. |
| Jenna Garcia | TAMU | Graduate Student | Grad. Jenna Garcia, Seaborg Fellowship Program Award, Seaborg Institute, march/2023 |
| Peter Boone | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad, Peter Boone, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Women’s Association Scholarship Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, March 2023. |
| Christian Young | UTK | Graduate Student | Graduate: Christian Young, Student Service Award, University of Tennessee, Dec 2022 (awarded January 2023) |
| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad; Rutstrom, Daniel; award – 3rd Place in the Graduate category at the Annual Student Poster Night, which consisted of a cash award from the Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM and travel award from the Center for Materials Processing; February 2023. |
| Christopher Hossack | GWU | Graduate Student | Grad, Christopher Hossack, 2023 G. T. Seaborg Institute Graduate Research Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, LANL, March/2023. |
| Peter Hosemann | UCB | Faculty | Outstanding reviewer award 2022 for the journals acta materialia and scritpa materials, Elsevier |
| Emily Frame | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad, Emily Frame. Best student paper on nuclear detection and imaging, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, December, 2022. |
| James Kingston | UCD | Graduate Student | Grad, James Kingston, HEPCAT, UC Davis, 12/2022 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Kimberly Pestovich, travel award to present research at SCINT 2022 conference, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Tennessee, 07/2022 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Undergrad, James Pierce, 3rd place in the undergraduate student category at the Center for Materials Processing End of Summer Student Night, University of Tennessee, 08/2022 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad, Kimberly Pestovich, 1st place in the graduate student category at the Center for Materials Processing End of Summer Student Night, University of Tennessee, 08/2022 |
| Benjamin Walusiak | GWU | Graduate Student | Grad, Benjamin Walusiak, 2022 G. T. Seaborg Institute Graduate Research Program, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June-August 2022 |
| Jonathan Mitchell | UTK | Graduate Student | Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) JD Williams Student Paper Award |
| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student | Best Student Oral Presentation, SCINT 2022 |
| Yassin Hassan | TAMU | Faculty | 2022 Fluids Engineering Award |
| Benjamin Walusiak | GWU | Graduate Student | 2022 G. T. Seaborg Institute Graduate Research Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, March/2022. |
| Jonathan Mitchell | UTK | Graduate Student | INMM Student Award |
| Anthony Leja | UIUC | Undergraduate | NPRE Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award |
| Daniel Puentes | MSU | Graduate Student | Grad. Daniel Puentes. Tracy A. Hammer Graduate Student Award for Professional Development. Michigan State University, April 2022. |
| Daniel Puentes | MSU | Graduate Student | Grad. Daniel Puentes, C. Konrad Gelbke Graduate Research Award, Michigan State University, April 2022. |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Grad. Kimberly Pestovich, Best Poster Presentation, NNSA DNN R&D UPR NSSC, 06/2022 |
| Dominic Lioce | UNM | Undergraduate | Undergrad, Dominic Lioce, Outstanding Senior Award, UNM Nuclear Engineering, May 2022. |
| Harry Jang | UNLV | Graduate Student | Grad. Harry Jang, 2022 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award: Competition for Students Attending Universities with Less than $600 Million in 2019 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures, University Research Alliance, 05/2022. |
| James McGreivy | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergrad, James McGreivy, “Best Paper in the Human Factors and Instrumentation and Controls Track,” American Nuclear Society, 04/22 |
| Laura Shi | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergrad, Laura Shi. UC Berkeley Department Citation (#1 in graduating class), Department of Nuclear Engineering, May 2022 |
| Austin Mullen | UCB | Graduate Student | Best National Lab Collaboration |
| Jake Hecla | UCB | Graduate Student | Hecla, Jake. “Best Oral Presentation” NNSA University Program Review. June 2022 |
| Jenna Garcia | TAMU | Graduate Student | 2022 G. T. Seaborg Institute Graduate Research Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, March/2022. |
| Daniel Puentes | MSU | Graduate Student | Tracy Hammer Graduate Student Award, College of Natural Science @ Michigan State University, Mar/2022 |
| Daniel Puentes | MSU | Graduate Student | COGS Disciplinary Leadership Award, The Graduate School @ Michigan State University, Feb/2022 |
| Christian Young | UTK | Graduate Student | Invitation to Alpha Nu Sigma, The University of Tennessee, 03/2022 |
| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student | First Place in Graduate Student Poster Competition |
| Peter Hosemann | UCB | Faculty | 2022 TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award Winner |
| Sarah Stevenson | UCB | Graduate Student | Third place in the poster competition at the TMS Conference |
| Katherine Luebke | UNLV | Graduate Student | Third Place 3 Minute Thesis Competition, UNLV, November 2021 |
| Nicole Byrne | GWU | Graduate Student | DOE SCGSR Fellowship |
| Kalie Knecht | UCB | Graduate Student | Best Student Paper on Radiation Detection and Imaging |
| Ben Godfrey | UCD | Graduate Student | Outstanding Paper Award, Original Research, NSSC, August 2021 |
| Mark Straub | UCB | Graduate Student | Outstanding Paper Award, Review, NSSC, August 2021 |
| Cordell Delzer | UTK | Graduate Student | Outstanding Thesis Award, RadDetection, NSSC, August 2021 |
| Hi Vo | UCB | Graduate Student | Outstanding Thesis Award, NE, NSSC, August 2021 |
| Kelly Kmak | UCB | Graduate Student | Outstanding Thesis Award, CHEM, NSSC, August 2021 |
| Teal Pershing | UCD | Graduate Student | Outstanding Thesis Award, NPP, NSSC, August 2021 |
| Daniel Puentes | MSU | Graduate Student | Theda & Leonard Leventhal Scholarship, Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation, May 2021 |
| Daniel Puentes | MSU | Graduate Student | Impact Innovations Award, Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS), May 2021 |
| Mairead Montague | UTK | Graduate Student | Masters Graduate Research Excellence Award, UTK Department of Nuclear Engineering 05/2021 |
| Caleb Redding | UTK | Graduate Student | Award for Professional Promise, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, May/2021. |
| Sarah Stevenson | UCB | Graduate Student | Graduate Scholarship, American Nuclear Society, May 2021 |
| Kalie Knecht | UCB | Graduate Student | Virgil E. Shrock Award for Outstanding Service, UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department, April 2021 |
| Emily Frame | UCB | Graduate Student | Third place student speaker at the Northern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine: The Young Investigators Symposium. Stanford University, June/2021. |
| Laura Shi | UCB | Undergraduate | William R. & Mila Kimel Nuclear Engineering Scholarship, American Nuclear Society, June 2021 |
| Laura Shi | UCB | Undergraduate | Christopher Wootton Award for “Superior service and leadership to the Department of Nuclear Engineering,” UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering, May 2021 |
| Julie He | UCD | Graduate Student | Ryan Couch Memorial Fund, UC Davis Physics Department, Jan/2021 |
| Austin Mullen | UCB | Graduate Student | Nuclear Scholars Initiative: Nuclear Scholar, CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues, 02/21 |
| Nicole Byrne | GWU | Graduate Student | Provost’s Graduate Merit Fellowship, GWU, December 2020 |
| Roy Ready | MSU | Graduate Student | College of Natural Science Completion Fellowship, MSU, 12/20 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | Worker Environmental Safety and Security Team STAR Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 10/2020 |
| Kimberly Pestovich | UTK | Graduate Student | 1st place in the crystal growth poster contest, American Association for Crystal Growth Southeast, 10/2020. |
| Jake Tibbetts | UCB | Graduate Student | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ 2020 Leonard M. Rieser Award |
| Daniel Rustrom | UTK | Graduate Student | 2020 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award Winner |
| Mariah Rameriez | TAMU | Graduate Student | NSSPI Students Receive Seaborg Institute Summer Research Fellowship https://nsspi.tamu.edu/nsspi-students-receive-seaborg-institute-summer-research-fellowship/ |
| August Ridenour | GWU | Graduate Student | American Institute of Chemists Graduate Award, American Institute of Chemists, May/2020 |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Graduate Student | Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards – First Place in the Open Competition for the category of Material Protection, Control, and Accountancy (instrumentation, detectors, and sensors for safeguards and nonproliferation); Awarding Institution: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Technology Research and Development; Month/Year: June 2020 |
| James Louis Jean | UNLV | Graduate Student | Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards Awards, 1st place winner in Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, US DOE, June 2020 |
| Andrew Reddie | UCB | Graduate Student | Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellowship (Marine Corps University) June 2020 |
| Charlie Cummings | UCB | Undergraduate | Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholar, UC Berkeley, 12/2019 |
| Andrew Reddie | UCB | Postdoc | 2020-2021 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow. |
| James Louis Jean | UNLV | Graduate Student | 1st place for the 2020 Fuel Cycle Innovation Award, material and recovery section |
| Katherine Thornock | UNLV | Graduate Student | Seaborg Summer Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Bethany Goldblum | UCB | Faculty | Corones Award – https://www.krellinst.org/about-krell/news-events/goldblum-corones-award |
| Jake Tibbetts | UCB | Undergraduate | Best Student Game at the 2019 Serious Games Showcase and Challenge |
| Kevin Glennon | TAMU | Graduate Student | Grad. Glennon, Kevin. Outstanding Presentation in Chemistry. Los Alamos National Laboratory, August 2019. |
| Kevin Glennon | TAMU | Graduate Student | Seaborg Fellowship. Los Alamos National Laboratory, June to October 2019. |
| Tim Genda | UCB | Graduate Student | Graduate Research Scholar Appointment – LLNL |
| Daine Danielson | UCD | Undergraduate | 2019 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award Winners Announced |
| Kevin Glennon | TAMU | Graduate Student | Seaborg Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Summer 2019. |
| Jake Hecla, Rebecca Krentz-Wee, and Andrew Reddie | UCB | Graduate Student | Honorable mention in the National Science Policy Network Writing Competition with their article concerning the future of nuclear command, control, and communication to appear in a forthcoming Journal of Science Policy and Governance. |
| Eric Matthews | UCB | Graduate Student | Best National Laboratory Collaboration, UPR 2019, 06/2019 |
| Rebecca Krentz Wee | UCB | Graduate Student | Best Oral Presentation, UPR 2019, 06/2019 |
| Milos Atz | UCB | Graduate Student | Roy G. Post Nuclear Waste Management Graduate Scholarship. Roy G. Post Foundation, March, 2019. |
| Angela Simone | UTK | Graduate Student | Extraordinary Professional Promise Citation, April 2019 |
| Andrew Reddie | UCB | Graduate Student | University of California Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September 2019, Faculty: Vinod K. Aggarwal |
| Emily Vu | UCB | Undergraduate | Best Presentation in Mathematics and Computation. |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Graduate Student | Integrated University Program (IUP) 3 Year Graduate Fellowship, award by DOE-NE, March 2019. |
| Mariya Zhuravleva | UTK | Faculty | NSF Career Award |
| Mara Grinder | MSU | Graduate Student | Grad. Grinder, Mara. Travel and Research Enhancement Funds, Graduate School at Michigan State University, Oct. 2018 |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | Undergrad. Rutstrom, Daniel, “Optimizing Europium Concentration and Investigating New Activators for Cs4S rI6 and Cs4C aI6 Scintillators” AACG-SE and Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM Student Poster Night. Awards: 3rd place in crystal growth category, 1st place undergrad |
| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad. Adriana Ureche, Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Oct 2018. |
| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | Grad. Hellfeld, Daniel. Best paper award (radiation detection), UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering, December 2018. |
| Barbara Jacak | UCB | Faculty | 2018 APS Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics |
| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | 2018 Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant |
| Nanthakishore Makeswaran | MSI-NSSC1 | Graduate Student | 2018 Dr. W. Moeller Award from the International Society for Nuclear Air Treatment Technology (ISNATT) |
| Vincent Fischer | UCD | Postdoc | Neutrino Physics Center Fellowship, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, May 2018. |
| Tyler Jordan | UCB | Graduate Student | Best National Laboratory Collaboration for the NSSC, University Program Review. June 2018. |
| Teal Pershing | UCD | Graduate Student | Best Oral Presentation from NSSC. University Program Review (UPR), NNSA, June 2018. |
| Sandra Bogetic | UCB | Graduate Student | “Lawrence Livermore Scholar Graduate Fellowship”, LLNL, October 2018; |
| Roy Ready | MSU | Graduate Student | DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program. |
| Natalie Johns | UNLV | Undergraduate | UNLV Office of Undergraduate Research Award |
| Mairead Montague | UCB | Undergraduate | Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. June 2018. |
| Mairead Montague | UCB | Undergraduate | Tennessee Graduate Fellowship of Excellence, University of Tennessee Knoxville. May 2018. |
| Nanthakishore Makeswaran | UTEP | Graduate Student | Dr. W. Moeller Award |
| Katherine Thornock | UNLV | Graduate Student | Best Poster at the University Program Review (UPR), NNSA from NSSC, June 2018. |
| Jiang Zirui | UCB | Undergraduate | Deptartment Citation |
| Jason Richards | UNLV | Graduate Student | First Place Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award, DOE-NE, May 2017 |
| Jason Matheny | UTK | Undergraduate | Top Junior Academic Award, UTK, April 2017 |
| James Louis Jean | UNLV | Graduate Student | Seaborg Summer Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 2018. |
| Jacob Cutter | UCD | Graduate Student | DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship |
| Eric Matthews | UCB | Graduate Student | National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellowship, Livermore NNSA field office |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | Undergraduate Research Travel Grant to attend the SORMA conference. Office of Undergraduate Research (UTK). April 2018. |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D – Competition for Students who Attend Universities with Less than $600M in 2015 Science and Engineering R&D Expenditures. Department of Energy. April 2018. |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | MSE Departmental Awards – Roberto Benson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. UTK Materials Science and Engineering Department. April 2018. |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | Silver Award from the Office of Research and Engagement. EUReCA. Institutions: Tickle College of Engineering (UTK), Office of Undergraduate Research within the Office of Research and Engagement (UTK). April 2018. |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | 3rd place in the College of Engineering research category. EUReCA. Institutions: Tickle College of Engineering (UTK), Office of Undergraduate Research within the Office of Research and Engagement (UTK). April 2018. |
| Daniel Rutstrom | UTK | Undergraduate | MSE/CMP poster session travel award. UTK, August 2017 |
| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | Runner-up NSS Student Paper Competition, IEEE NSS-MIC, Oct. 2017. ‘Omnidirectional 3D Gamma-ray Imaging with a Free-moving Spherical Active Coded Aperture’ |
| Brian Lenardo | UCD | Graduate Student | Lawrence Scholar Graduate Fellowship |
| Angela Simone | UTK | Graduate Student | Graduate Research Excellence Award, University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering, April 2018. |
| UTK Team: Collette, Robyn. Rutstrom ,Daniel. Loyd, Matthew. Stand, Luis. Zhuravleva, Mariya. Melcher, Chuck. | UTK | Graduate Student | “Investigation of Bi 3+ as an Activator for Scintillation in Lanthanum Halide Compounds”, AACG-SE Student Poster Night, Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM and AACG-SE, November/2016. Awarded 1st Place in the AACG-SE Graduate Student poster contest. |
| Stephen Parker | UCB | Graduate Student | Distinguished Student Performance Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Sandra Bogetic | UCB | Graduate Student | Departmental Virgil Schrock award for Outstanding Mentorship |
| Roy Ready | MSU | Graduate Student | DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program, September 2017 |
| Michael Nacht | UCB | Faculty | Carnegie Foundation Award |
| Michael Martin | UCB | Undergraduate | Innovation in Nuclear Technology R&D 2017 |
| Kelly Kmak | UCB | Undergraduate | Glen T. Seaborg Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Chemistry |
| Kathy Shield | UCB | Graduate Student | Nuclear Engineering University Programs Graduate Fellowship, Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, May 2017. |
| Josh Brown | UCB | Graduate Student | “Best National Laboratory Collaboration,” University Program Review Meeting, June 2017. |
| John Arnold | UCB | Faculty | Appointed Undergraduate Dean at the UCB College of Chemistry |
| Issac Meyer | UCB | Undergraduate | Podium Presentation: Best in Fusion Energy Track at 2017 ANS Student Conference, ANS, |
| Eric Matthews | UCB | Graduate Student | Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley. March 2018. |
| Eric Matthews | UCB | Undergraduate | Christopher Wootton Award |
| Emily Frame | UCB | Graduate Student | Best poster award at the 7th International Symposium of the “Phoenix Leader Education Program for Renaissance from Radiation Disaster” “Radiation & Radiation Detection: From Responding to Radiation Disasters to Saving Rhinos” |
| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | 2017 IEEE NSS-MIC Trainee Grant |
| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | 2017 Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant |
| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | “Best Oral Presentation,” University Program Review Meeting, June 2017. |
| Cordell Delzer | UTK | Graduate Student | Best Poster, University Program Review, NNSA, June 2017. |
| Caroline Hughes | UCB | Graduate Student | Gold Award for presentation on Human Resources Development in Nuclear Safety, Security, and Safeguards |
| Brad Sherril | MSU | Faculty | 2018 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. |
| Austin Wright | UCB | Undergraduate | 2017 DOE DNN R&D Network Science and Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenge |
| Andrew Reddie | UCB | Graduate Student | NSSC PPNT Nuclear Security Scholar |
Awards to NSSC Personnel from 2011 – 2016:
| Jenna Smith | MSU | Graduate Student | 2012 MSU Alfred J. and Ruth Zeits Endowed Fellowship |
| Michael Jones | MSU | Graduate Student | 2015 MSU Alfred J. and Ruth Zeits Endowed Fellowship |
| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Undergraduate |
American Physical Society’s Conference Experience for Undergraduates Lodging and Registration Award (Fall 2014)
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| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Undergraduate |
Certificate of Completion, International Safeguards Policy and Information—Monterey Institute of International Studies (2014)
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| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Undergraduate | Dean’s List of Honors—UC Berkeley College of Engineering (Spring 2014) |
| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Undergraduate | Institute of International Studies (IIS) Undergraduate Conference Travel Grant (Fall 2014) |
| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergraduate Research Assistant Program (URAP) Summer Employment Award (2014) |
| Adriana Ureche | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergraduate Conference Grant, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley |
| Agnieszka Czeszumska | UCB | Graduate Student | Best Poster Award, Advances in Radioactive Isotope Science |
| Agnieszka Czeszumska | UCB | Graduate Student | Lawrence Scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Jan. 2013 |
| Anna Bella Korbatov | UCB | Undergraduate | Phi Beta Kappa 2015 |
| Anna Bella Korbatov | UCB | Undergraduate | Undergraduate Merit Award Certificate from the Institute of International Studies (IIS) at UC Berkeley |
| Bethany Goldblum | UCB | Faculty | December 2014 Woman Physicist of the Month, Committee on the Status of Women in Physics, American Physical Society |
| Bethany Goldblum | UCB | Faculty | Featured in American Physical Society’s “Physics in Your Future” Booklet. |
| Bethany Goldblum | UCB | Faculty | Federation of American Scientists -Fall 2015 Scientist Spotlight (https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/interviewbg_final.pdf) |
| Bethany Goldblum | UCB | Faculty | PONI Speakers Bureau |
| Cameron Bates | UCB | Graduate Student | Lawrence Scholar Fellowship 2012 (LLNL) |
| Christopher Brand | UCB | Undergraduate |
Wooten Superior Service and Leadership Outstanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015
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| Daniel Hellfeld | UCB | Graduate Student | JD Williams Best Poster Award. Institute of Nuclear Materials Management. July 2015. |
| Eric Norman | UCB | Faculty | 2012 ANS Presidential Citation for Fukushima Work (the UCB NE Department received this citation) |
| Eric Norman | UCB | Faculty | Corecipient of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Physics for his contributions to the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. |
| Eric Norman | UCB | Faculty | Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Oct. 2012 |
| Eric Norman | UCB | Faculty | Science & Technology Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August, 2013 |
| Erika Suzuki | UCB | Undergraduate | Insitute of International Studies Undergraduate Conference Travel Award |
| Eva Uribe | UCB | Graduate Student | 2013 NSF Fellowship |
| Gabriel Kaufman | UCB | Undergraduate | Summer 2014 SURF Rose Hills Fellowship |
| Heino Nitsche | UCB | Faculty | Hevesy Medal Award, 17th Radiochemical Conference, Marianske, Czech Republic, May 11, 2014. |
| James Bevins | UCB | Graduate Student | UITI Program Review Oral Presentation Award |
| Jasmina Vujic | UCB | Faculty | 2012 ANS Presidential Citation for Fukushima Work (the UCB NE Department received this citation) |
| John Ready | UCB | Graduate Student | Virgil Schrock Outstanding Leadership Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015. |
| Jordan Sabella | UCB | Undergraduate |
“Fast neutron activation for post-detonation nuclear forensics,” American Nuclear Society meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2013. 3rd Place Poster.
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| Josh Brown | UCB | Graduate Student |
Characterizations of neutron detection systems for the National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer Student Poster Session, August 7, 2013. Outstanding Poster Award.
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| Kai Vetter | UCB | Faculty | 2015 ANS Presidential Citation for Fukushima Work (the UCB NE Department received this citation) |
| Kai Vetter | UCB | Faculty | 2012 ANS Presidential Citation for Fukushima Work (the UCB NE Department received this citation) |
| Kai Vetter | UCB | Faculty | ANS Presidential Citation |
| Kai Vetter | UCB | Faculty | APS Fellow |
| Katy Huff | UCB | Postdoc |
Certificate of Appreciation for Exceptional Effort as the Secretary of the Young Members Group, President M.B. Raap of the American Nuclear Society, June 2014.
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| Katy Huff | UCB | Postdoc |
Certificate of Appreciation for Exceptional Effort as the Secretary of the Young Members Group, President M.B. Raap of the American Nuclear Society, June/2014
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| Katy Huff | UCB | Postdoc |
Elected as Vice-Chair of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division, American Nuclear Society, June 2014.
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| Katy Huff | UCB | Postdoc |
Elected as Vice-Chair of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division, American Nuclear Society, June/2014
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| Katy Huff | UCB | Postdoc | Proceedings Chair, SciPy Conference |
| Katy Huff | UCB | Postdoc | Steering Committee Chair, Software Carpentry Foundation |
| Keenan Thomas | UCB | Specialist | Travel award: Conference on Underground Science at SURF, Rapid City SD |
| Keenan Thomas | UCB | Specialist | Travel award: LRT2015; Seattle WA |
| Kelly Rowland | UCB | Graduate Student | Virgil Schrock Oustanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, May 2015 |
| Lauren Janney | UCB | Undergraduate |
Wooten Superior Service and Leadership Outstanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015
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| Lee Bernstein | UCB | Faculty | APS Fellow |
| Lee Bernstein | UCB | Faculty |
External leadership for organizing the new UC branch of the US Nuclear Data Program Data Evaluation for Applied Nuclear Science (DEANS). Physics and Life Sciences Directorate Award, Lawrence! Livermore National Laboratory, September 2015.
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| Lee Bernstein | UCB | Faculty | Outstanding mentor, Physics and Life Sciences Directorate Award, Lawrence Livermore |
| Leo Kirsch | UCB | Graduate Student | DOE NNSA Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship |
| Mark Swanson | UCB | Undergraduate |
Wooten Superior Service and Leadership Outstanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015
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| Patricia Schuster | UCB | Graduate Student | Best Presentation Award, ANS Student Conference 2014 |
| Patricia Schuster | UCB | Graduate Student | Best Student Presentation, IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Seattle, WA |
| Per Peterson | UCB | Faculty | 2012 ANS Presidential Citation for Fukushima Work (the UCB NE Department received this citation) |
| E. B. Norman | UCB | Faculty | Science & Technology Award, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, August, 2013 |
| Rachel Slaybaugh | UCB | Faculty | ANS 2014 Young Member Excellence Award; 2014 ANS Presidential Citation |
| Rachel Slaybaugh | UCB | Faculty |
Certificate of Governance for serving as the Chair of the NEED Committee, President M.B. Raap of the American Nuclear Society, June 2015.
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| Rachel Slaybaugh | UCB | Faculty |
Elected as a Member of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, American Nuclear Society, June 2015.
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| Ross Barnowski | UCB | Graduate Student | UITI Program Review Oral Presentation Award |
| Stanley Prussin | UCB | Faculty | 2012 ANS Presidential Citation for Fukushima Work (the UCB NE Department received this citation) |
| Thomas Hickey | UCB | Graduate Student | Nuclear Scholars Initiative, Project on Nuclear Issues, Center for Strategic and International Studies |
| Brian Lenardo | UCD | Graduate Student | 2014 Livermore Graduate Scholar Program |
| Chris Grant | UCD | Postdoc | HEP Intensity Frontier Fellowship Award |
| Chris Grant | UCD | Postdoc | Intensity Frontier Fellowship, US DOE August |
| Eric Emdee | UCD | Undergraduate | Saxon Patten Prize |
| James Morad | UCD | Graduate Student | Office of Science Graduate Student Researcher Fellowship, Department of Energy |
| James Morad | UCD | Graduate Student | UC Davis/LLNL Joint Mentorship Scholarship |
| Jonathan Leaf | UCD | Undergraduate | Herbert A. Young Medal for graduating senior in College of Letters and Science |
| Mani Tripathi | UCD | Faculty | Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research |
| Mani Tripathi | UCD | Faculty | European Physical Society High Energy and Particle Physics Prize (CMS experiment) |
| Matthew Syzdagis | UCD | Postdoc | UCD Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research |
| Nick Walsh | UCD | Graduate Student | UITI Program Review Poster Award |
| Robert Svoboda | UCD | Faculty | Fellow, American Physical Society Division of Particles and Fields |
| Teal Pershing | UCD | Graduate Student | UC Davis/LLNL Joint Mentorship Fellowship |
| Amber Hennessy | UCI | Graduate Student | Travel Award, 2015 Women in Nuclear |
| Christian Bustillos | UCI | Graduate Student | 2014 Seaborg Fellowship |
| Christian Bustillos | UCI | Graduate Student | 2015 Seaborg Fellowship |
| Gabrielle Cobos | UCI | Undergraduate | 2016 ANS Robert L. Long Memorial Scholarship Award, American Nuclear Society, June/2015. |
| George Miller | UCI | Faculty |
USA Representative and Recorder, Technical Meeting at IAEA for formation of Global TRIGA Research Reactor Network, Vienna Austria, Fall 2013
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| Jennifer Logan | UCI | Graduate Student | NSF Fellowship |
| Jeremy Pearson | UCI | Graduate Student | 2015 Glen T. Seaborg ANS Congressional Fellow (awarded in 2014) |
| Ko Nee | UCI | Graduate Student | 2012 Fuel Cycle Innovations Award |
| Leila Safavi-Tehrani | UCI | Graduate Student |
DOW sustainability fellowship and is currently carrying out an internship at the DOW center for sustainability in Queensland, Australia.
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| Marie Kirkegaard | UCI | Undergraduate | DHS Nuclear Forensics Graduate Fellowship (currently at University of Tennessee Knoxville) |
| Quynh Vo | UCI | Graduate Student | 2014 NSF Fellow |
| Daniel Mast | UNLV | Graduate Student | NEUP Fellowship, 2014 |
| Jaimie Daum | UNLV | Graduate Student | NEUP Fellowship: Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards Graduate Fellowship, 2014 |
| Janelle Droessler | UNLV | Graduate Student | 2013 DOE-Nuclear Energy Innovation Award |
| Janelle Droessler | UNLV | Graduate Student |
First place award for Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research in the category of Separations and Waste Forms, Winter ANS Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 10-14, 2013.
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| Janelle Droessler | UNLV | Graduate Student | First place, Separations and Waste Forms category, Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research, 2013. |
| Ken Czerwinski | UNLV | Faculty | Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013 |
| Ken Czerwinski | UNLV | Faculty |
Visiting Professor University of Warsaw, Lecturer in Radiochemistry and Nuclear Technology Summer School, 2013
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| Keri Campbell | UNLV | Graduate Student | (Poster) 1st Place Poster Presentation at GLOBAL 2013. |
| Keri Campbell | UNLV | Postdoc |
Postdoc. Keri! Campbell, Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, September 2015.
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| Marc Fitzgerald | UNLV | Graduate Student | Lawrence Fellowship, 2014 |
| Ralf Sudowe | UNLV | Faculty | Barrick Scholar’s Award |
| Brian Wright | WUSTL | Postdoc | Travel Awards for International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences 2015 |
| Lake Wooten | WUSTL | Graduate Student | Travel Awards for International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences 2015 |
| Nora Goscinski | WUSTL | Graduate Student | Travel Awards for International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences 2015 |
| Stacy Queern | WUSTL | Graduate Student | Travel Awards for International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences 2015 |
| Tara Mastren | WUSTL | Graduate Student | Travel Awards for Radiometals 2013 |
| Tolulope Aweda | WUSTL | Postdoc | Travel Awards for Radiometals 2013 |
| Vernal Richards | WUSTL | Postdoc | Travel Award for Radiometals 2013 |