2010 Spring Awards Banquet
The Department of Nuclear Engineering held its first-ever Spring Awards Banquet, Monday, April 19, 2010 at the College Station Hilton. The banquet celebrated awards received by faculty, staff and students during the current academic year.
Faculty Awards
- Dr. Marvin Adams, Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award
- Dr. William Charlton, Division of Student Affairs Advisor of the Year
- Dr. Sean McDeavitt, Charles H. Barclay Jr. '45 Faculty Fellow
- Dr. Jean Ragusa, William O. & Montine P. Head Faculty Fellow
- Dr. Lin Shao, NSF Career Award & TAMUS Teaching Excellence Award
- Dr. Pavel Tsvetkov, Caterpillar Teaching Excellence Award
Staff Awards
- Shannon Pope, Dean's Staff Achievement Award
Graduate Student Awards
- David Ames, Sandia Fellowship
- Wesley Cardwell, INPO Fellowship
- Bradley Cox, NSBRI Fellowship
- Andrew Dercher, DOE NEUP Fellowship
- Braden Goddard, Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship
- Joshua Jarrell, MUSC Rickover Fellowship & ANS Everitt P. Blizard Scholarship
- Peter Maginot, NRC Fellowship
- James Miller, MUSC DNDO Fellowship
- Christopher Ryan, NRC Fellowship
- Hayes Stripling, DOE CSGF Fellowship & Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship
- David Wagoner, HPS Robert Gardner Fellowship
Undergraduate Student Awards
- Bradley Beeny, NRC Scholarship
- Austin Blake, Gail de Planque Scholarship
- Ross Darville, NRC Scholarship
- Oren Draznin, Eloise Vezey Dromgoole Scholarship
- Kevin Dugan, NRC Scholarship
- Travis Garrett, Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Junior
- Ezra Ginder, ANS Scholarship
- Michael Hackemack, DOE NEUP Scholarship, NRC Scholarship & NANT Scholarship
- Levi Holden, Jeff W. Simmons '85 Scholarship
- Daniel Holladay, NRC Scholarship
- Jesse Johns, DOE NEUP Scholarship
- Ryan Kelly, NRC Scholarship & ANS Accelerator Apps. Div. Scholarship
- Jeffrey McFarland Jr., R.D. Neff Scholarship
- Carolyn McGraw, Jeff W. Simmons '85 Scholarship
- William McNeely, NRC Scholarship
- George Mickum, Gail de Planque Scholarship
- Chelsea Murdock, NANT Scholarship
- Aaron Osborne, Jeff W. Simmons '85 Scholarship
- Jeremy Rogers, R.D. Neff Scholarship
- William Sames V, DOE NEUP Scholarship & NRC Scholarship
- Alex Smith, NRC Scholarship
- Jared Tooley, NRC Scholarship
In addition, officers for the various nuclear engineering organizations were acknowledged and thanked for their service.
American Nuclear Society Officers
- William Sames V, President
- Peter Maginot, Vice President
- Oscar Rodriguez, Secretary
- Samantha Edgington, Treasurer
Health Physics Society Officers
- Mohanned Kawasmi, President
- Tarah James, Secretary
- Jeremy Rogers, Treasurer
- Philip Pierce, Webmaster
Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Officers
- Adrienne LaFleur, President
- Jessica Feener, Vice President
- Grant Spence, Secretary
- Matthew Sternat, Treasurer
- Jeffrey Hausaman, Webmaster
- Julia White, Undergrad. Coord.
Women in Nuclear Officers
- Kristina Yancey, President
- Chelsea Murdock, Treasurer
Alpha Nu Sigma Honor Society Officers
- Tara Pandya, President
- Tarah James, Treasurer
And, finally, Alpha Nu Sigma inducted new members into its honor society.
New inductees were:
Austin L. Blake, Samantha Edgington, Daniel Eichel, Michael Hackemack, Matthew Johnson, Jeffrey McFarland Jr., Ngoc Nguyen, Alicia Raftery, William Sames V, Jared Tooley, Seong W. Kang, Bruno Turcksin and Ryan Kelly.







