Cory Booker and Ken Kimmel visit MIT Alcator C-Mod fusion device
U.S. Senator and Union of Concerned Scientists president explore new superconducting technology at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Department
Nuclear Science and Engineering
Metal defects can be eliminated by cyclic loading
Finding shows small amounts of repeated stretching can eliminate crystal defects in nanoscale metal parts.
Aditi Verma: A multidisciplinary take on nuclear policy
PhD student is acquiring the science, engineering, and social sciences expertise needed to make sense of complex policy questions surrounding nuclear energy.
SuperUROP undergrad research program goes engineering-wide
Yearlong “Super” Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program expands beyond electrical engineering and computer science.
A passion for learning in the lab
Thomas McKrell designs, builds, and supervises nuclear science and engineering laboratory projects, and readies students for careers in research.
Finding 911 callers instantly
Mobile app automatically sends a caller’s location and medical data to dispatch centers.
Carolyn Coyle wins two awards at NURETH-16
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering graduate student honored for her work on nuclear thermal hydraulics.
Dennis Whyte named head of Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Whyte succeeds Richard Lester as NSE department head.
Bubble, bubble … boiling on the double
New analysis of textured surfaces could lead to more efficient, and less dangerous, power plants.
Upholding disarmament agreements with engineering
PhD student Ruaridh Macdonald develops a tool to identify nuclear weapons without divulging too much.
Sow-Hsin Chen wins 2015 Guinier Prize
Nuclear science and engineering professor emeritus honored for novel uses of small-angle scattering in the study of matter.