Awards

2022 TMS Brimacombe Medalist Award Winner

Third place in the poster competition at the TMS Conference

Third Place 3 Minute Thesis Competition, UNLV, November 2021

DOE SCGSR Fellowship

Best Student Paper on Radiation Detection and Imaging

Outstanding Paper Award, Original Research, NSSC, August 2021

Outstanding Paper Award, Review, NSSC, August 2021

Outstanding Thesis Award, RadDetection, NSSC, August 2021

Outstanding Thesis Award, NE, NSSC, August 2021

Outstanding Thesis Award, CHEM, NSSC, August 2021

Outstanding Thesis Award, NPP, NSSC, August 2021

Theda & Leonard Leventhal Scholarship, Sigma Alpha Mu Foundation, May 2021

Impact Innovations Award, Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS), May 2021

Masters Graduate Research Excellence Award, UTK Department of Nuclear Engineering 05/2021

Award for Professional Promise, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, May/2021.

Graduate Scholarship, American Nuclear Society, May 2021

Virgil E. Shrock Award for Outstanding Service, UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department, April 2021

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.

William R. & Mila Kimel Nuclear Engineering Scholarship, American Nuclear Society, June 2021

Christopher Wootton Award for “Superior service and leadership to the Department of Nuclear Engineering,” UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering, May 2021

Ryan Couch Memorial Fund, UC Davis Physics Department, Jan/2021

Nuclear Scholars Initiative: Nuclear Scholar, CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues, 02/21

Provost’s Graduate Merit Fellowship, GWU, December 2020

College of Natural Science Completion Fellowship, MSU, 12/20

Worker Environmental Safety and Security Team STAR Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 10/2020

1st place in the crystal growth poster contest, American Association for Crystal Growth Southeast, 10/2020.

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ 2020 Leonard M. Rieser Award

2020 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award Winner

NSSPI Students Receive Seaborg Institute Summer Research Fellowship https://nsspi.tamu.edu/nsspi-students-receive-seaborg-institute-summer-research-fellowship/

American Institute of Chemists Graduate Award, American Institute of Chemists, May/2020

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

Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Awards Awards, 1st place winner in Material Recovery and Waste Form Development, US DOE, June 2020

Krulak Center Non-Resident Fellowship (Marine Corps University) June 2020

Berkeley Physics Undergraduate Research Scholar, UC Berkeley, 12/2019

2020-2021 Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow.

1st place for the 2020 Fuel Cycle Innovation Award, material and recovery section

Seaborg Summer Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Corones Award – https://www.krellinst.org/about-krell/news-events/goldblum-corones-award

Grad. Glennon, Kevin. Outstanding Presentation in Chemistry. Los Alamos National Laboratory, August 2019.

Seaborg Fellowship. Los Alamos National Laboratory, June to October 2019.

Graduate Research Scholar Appointment – LLNL

2019 Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award Winners Announced

Seaborg Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory. Summer 2019.

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.​

Best National Laboratory Collaboration, UPR 2019, 06/2019

Best Oral Presentation, UPR 2019, 06/2019

Roy G. Post Nuclear Waste Management Graduate Scholarship. Roy G. Post Foundation, March, 2019.

Extraordinary Professional Promise Citation, April 2019

University of California Post-Doctoral Fellowship, September 2019, Faculty: Vinod K. Aggarwal

Best Presentation in Mathematics and Computation.

Integrated University Program (IUP) 3 Year Graduate Fellowship, award by DOE-NE, March 2019.

Grad. Grinder, Mara. Travel and Research Enhancement Funds, Graduate School at Michigan State University, Oct. 2018

Undergrad. Rutstrom, Daniel, “Optimizing Europium Concentration and Investigating New Activators for Cs​4S​ rI​6​ and Cs​4C​ aI​6 Scintillators” AACG-SE and Oak Ridge Chapter of ASM Student Poster Night. Awards: 3rd place in crystal growth category, 1st place undergrad

Grad. Adriana Ureche, Graduate Division Conference Travel Grant, UC Berkeley, Oct 2018.

Grad. Hellfeld, Daniel. Best paper award (radiation detection), UC Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering, December 2018.

2018 APS Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics

2018 Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant

2018 Dr. W. Moeller Award from the International Society for Nuclear Air Treatment Technology (ISNATT)

Neutrino Physics Center Fellowship, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, May 2018.

Best National Laboratory Collaboration for the NSSC, University Program Review. June 2018.

Best Oral Presentation from NSSC. University Program Review (UPR), NNSA, June 2018.

“Lawrence Livermore Scholar Graduate Fellowship”, LLNL, October 2018;

DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program.

UNLV Office of Undergraduate Research Award

Visiting Faculty Research Fellowship, Oak Ridge Associated Universities. June 2018.

Tennessee Graduate Fellowship of Excellence, University of Tennessee Knoxville. May 2018.

Dr. W. Moeller Award

Best Poster at the University Program Review (UPR), NNSA from NSSC, June 2018.

Deptartment Citation

First Place Innovations in Nuclear Technology R&D Award, DOE-NE, May 2017

Top Junior Academic Award, UTK, April 2017

Seaborg Summer Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 2018.

DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellowship

National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellowship, Livermore NNSA field office

Undergraduate Research Travel Grant to attend the SORMA conference. Office of Undergraduate Research (UTK). April 2018.

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.

MSE Departmental Awards – Roberto Benson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research. UTK Materials Science and Engineering Department. April 2018.

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.

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.

MSE/CMP poster session travel award. UTK, August 2017

Runner-up NSS Student Paper Competition, IEEE NSS-MIC, Oct. 2017. ‘Omnidirectional 3D Gamma-ray Imaging with a Free-moving Spherical Active Coded Aperture’

Lawrence Scholar Graduate Fellowship

Graduate Research Excellence Award, University of Tennessee Department of Nuclear Engineering, April 2018.

“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.

Distinguished Student Performance Award, Los Alamos National Laboratory

DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program, September 2017

Carnegie Foundation Award

Innovation in Nuclear Technology R&D 2017

Glen T. Seaborg Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Chemistry

Nuclear Engineering University Programs Graduate Fellowship, Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy, May 2017.

“Best National Laboratory Collaboration,” University Program Review Meeting, June 2017.

Appointed Undergraduate Dean at the UCB College of Chemistry

Podium Presentation: Best in Fusion Energy Track at 2017 ANS Student Conference, ANS,

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley. March 2018.

Christopher Wootton Award

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”

2017 IEEE NSS-MIC Trainee Grant

2017 Valentin T. Jordanov Radiation Instrumentation Travel Grant

“Best Oral Presentation,” University Program Review Meeting, June 2017.

Best Poster, University Program Review, NNSA, June 2017.

Gold Award for presentation on Human Resources Development in Nuclear Safety, Security, and Safeguards

2018 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics.

2017 DOE DNN R&D Network Science and Nuclear Nonproliferation Challenge

NSSC PPNT Nuclear Security Scholar

American Physical Society’s Conference Experience for Undergraduates Lodging and Registration Award (Fall 2014)

Certificate of Completion, International Safeguards Policy and Information—Monterey Institute of International Studies (2014)

Wooten Superior Service and Leadership Outstanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015

“Fast neutron activation for post-detonation nuclear forensics,” American Nuclear Society meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2013. 3rd Place Poster.

Characterizations of neutron detection systems for the National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Summer Student Poster Session, August 7, 2013. Outstanding Poster Award.

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.

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

Elected as Vice-Chair of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division, American Nuclear Society, June 2014.

Elected as Vice-Chair of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division, American Nuclear Society, June/2014

Wooten Superior Service and Leadership Outstanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015

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.

Wooten Superior Service and Leadership Outstanding Service Award, Department of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley, May 2015

Certificate of Governance for serving as the Chair of the NEED Committee, President M.B. Raap of the American Nuclear Society, June 2015.

Elected as a Member of the Radiation Protection and Shielding Division, American Nuclear Society, June 2015.

USA Representative and Recorder, Technical Meeting at IAEA for formation of Global TRIGA Research Reactor Network, Vienna Austria, Fall 2013

DOW sustainability fellowship and is currently carrying out an internship at the DOW center for sustainability in Queensland, Australia.

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.

Visiting Professor University of Warsaw, Lecturer in Radiochemistry and Nuclear Technology Summer School, 2013

Postdoc. Keri! Campbell, Seaborg Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, September 2015.