September 8, 2016

NE undergrad wins Dept. of Energy prize

Jason Becker, a senior in Nuclear Engineering, is among two Purdue students awarded prizes in the 2016 Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fuel Cycle Technologies, the awards program is designed to:

  • Award graduate and undergraduate students for innovative fuel-cycle-relevant research publications
  • Demonstrate the Department of Energy's commitment to higher education in fuel-cycle-relevant disciplines, and
  • Support communications among students and DOE representatives in the undergraduate competition.

 

Becker's award-winning research paper, "Double-Pulse Neodymium YAG/Carbon Dioxide Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Excitation of Bulk and Trace Analytes," was published in the journal Spectroscopy Letters in January 2016.

John Kiernicki, a PhD student in inorganic chemistry, also received a prize. His award-winning research paper, "Reductive Silylation of Cp*UO2(MesPDIMe) Promoted by Lewis Bases," was published in the journal Dalton Transactions in January 2016.

Find more information on the Innovations in Fuel Cycle Research Awards program.