STUDENT NEWS
The American Nuclear Society awarded scholarships
to three UW-Madison students: Undergrads Mike Priaulx
($2,000 ANS Undergraduate Scholarship) and Jong Lim
($2,000 ANS Charles “Tommy” Thomas Memorial Scholarship),
and grad student Kent Wardle ($3,000 ANS John
Randall Memorial Scholarship).
Three students in the UW-Madison ANS student section
received awards for presentations they gave at the ANS student conference
at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute:
• PhD student Ross Radel
received a first-place award in the nuclear non-proliferation and international
safeguards category for his talk, “Detection of HEU using a pulsed
inertial electrostatic confinement D-D fusion device.”
• Undergraduate Scott Baalrud
received a NASA award in the aerospace section for his talk, “The
nature of an electron sheath in steady-state low-pressure plasma.”
• Undergraduate McLean Machut
won best presentation in materials science and engineering for his talk,
“Modeling of corrosion mechanisms of steels for lead-alloy cooled
reactors.”
The students conducted their research, respectively,
with Grainger Professor Gerald Kulcinski, Irving Langmuir Professor
Noah Hershkowitz and Assistant Professor Todd Allen.
Senior Kyle Oliver won top
honors and $5,000 in the 2006 Steuber Prize for
Excellence in Writing for his essay, “How I remembered
Rachel.”
The NASA Academy awarded grad student Matt
Gajda a Dr. Gerald A. Soffen Memorial Fund Travel Grant to present
a paper at the 10th ASCE Aerospace International Conference on Earth
& Space in Houston, March 5-8. Gajda’s winning paper was on
the design of a lunar miner to recover volatiles on the Moon for life
support at future bases and energy production on Earth. His co-authors
were Grainger Professor Gerald Kulcinski, Research Professor John Santarius,
and scientists Gregory Sviatoslavsky and Igor Sviatoslavsky.
