Group Update – June 20th, 2022

A huge congrats to Alex Somers, who was recently awarded a US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) fellowship! He’ll be working with Dr. George Larson at the DOE’s Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) on Plasma Theory & Simulation work. Also, congrats to Dazhong and Victoria, who presented their work Read More…

Group Update – May 2022

Congratulations are in order to Dazhong Ding, who recently passed his comprehensive exam! Also, congrats to Will and Victoria for presenting on their work at the Nuclear & Emerging Technologies for Space (NETS) and International Conference On Plasma Science (ICOPS) meetings, respectively! Finally, congrats to Dr. Minsuk Seo, who recently accepted an offer for a Read More…

Group Update – April 12th, 2022

Congratulations to Will Searight, who was recently selected for a Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship! Also, congratulations are in order for Dr. Minsuk Seo, who’s work on microstructure deformation of tungsten in fusion heat-flux conditions was recently published in Journal of Nuclear Materials! Go BEARS!

Group update – 2020

The following congratulations are in order for BEARS members (which were delayed by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic): Alex, Sebastian, Will, Dazhong and Sidd were admitted to the Nuclear Engineering PhD candidacy! Yeong was admitted to the Materials Science & Engineering PhD candidacy! Will, Sebastian and Victoria completed their masters theses and were awarded Read More…