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  • Dercher wins NEUP Fellowship

    Andrew Dercher, a graduate student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, has been awarded a fellowship through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy as part of its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP). Dercher is currently working with Dr. Karen Vierow on improvements to the decay heat removal system for [...]

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  • Assistant Secretary of Energy Miller to present lecture Thursday

    Dr. Warren F. “Pete” Miller, assistant secretary of energy for nuclear energy, will present a talk Thursday (Oct. 15) at 5 p.m. in Room 106 of the Jack E. Brown Engineering Building at Texas A&M University. A reception will precede the lecture at 4:30 p.m. Miller’s talk, “DOE Nuclear Energy Programs: The Long and the Short/the Far [...]

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  • Nuclear engineering graduate student wins HPS Fellowship

    David Wagoner, a second-year student in the Department of Nuclear Engineering’s Health Physics Master’s Program, has been awarded the 2009-2010 Health Physics Society Robert Gardner Fellowship. This fellowship was established by Catherine C. Gardner and is sponsored jointly by HPS and the Gardner Fund. The award includes $5,000 in support and a travel grant to attend [...]

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  • Texas A&M receives Nuclear Education Grant from NRC

    Texas A&M was one of 70 institutions that was awarded Nuclear Education Grants by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to boost nuclear education and expand the workforce in nuclear and nuclear-related disciplines. Texas A&M received $376,609 in Fellowship Grants, $123,371 for Nuclear Education and Curriculum Development — Initial Grant, and $125,000 for Nuclear Education and Curriculum [...]

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  • Nuclear engineering’s Best to participate in NASA study

    Dr. Frederick Best, an associate professor at Texas A&M’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, has been invited by the National Academies (NAC) to participate in a two-year NASA study titled “Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences in Space.” The survey will establish a life and physical sciences research portfolio for NASA for the 2010-2020 decade. [...]

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