Entergy Student Internships Available

Entergy Nuclear has a number of student intern positions open in their Corporate Office in Jackson, Mississippi. The company is looking for individuals with a legitimate interest in Entergy as a potential career path and hopes that these internships will provide an opportunity for them to learn more about the students and for the students to learn more about working at Entergy.

Salaries are competitive and vary depending on the student’s classification. Stipends for relocation are also offered. Final decisions should be made before May 1.

If you are interested, please write an expression of interest letter, along with a copy of your resume, and send it along to Ms. Shannon Pope (spope@ne.tamu.edu). Dr. Juzaitis will review these and send these on to our contact at Entergy. Given their timeline, please send your input by Friday, April 3, 2009.

Miller Paper Selected Winner of NPT Noncompliance Paper Contest

Karen Miller, a graduate student in Nuclear Engineering, has been selected the winner of the Nonproliferation Treaty Noncompliance Paper Contest held by the Standing Committee on International Security of Radioactive and Nuclear Materials under the Nonproliferation and Arms Control Division of the INMM. Her paper, "When is Noncompliance, Noncompliance?" was presented at the Third Annual Workshop on Reducing the Risk from Nuclear and Radioactive Materials, held March 10-11, 2009 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her paper will now be submitted for publication to the Journal of Nuclear Materials Management. Read this paper.

Jarrell Wins Roy G. Post Scholarship

Joshua Jarrell, a graduate student in the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department, was awarded a $5000 scholarship from the Post Foundation on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at the Waste Management 2009 (WM2009) Awards Luncheon, which was held in Phoenix, AZ . Jarrell has a B.S. from Texas A&M (2006) and is currently working on his Ph.D.. The Roy G. Post Foundation (named after a former Arizona Professor) was created to support students and encourage them to enter the field of Nuclear Waste Management. Jarrell’s scholarship was backed by Tetra Tech.