Thursday, January 21, 2010

Goddard Named Second TAMU-NE Recipient of Post Foundation Scholarship

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Braden Goddard, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University working in the Department of Nuclear Engineering's Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI), is the second TAMU NE student to be chosen to receive a $5000 scholarship from the Roy G. Post Foundation on March 9th 2010 at the Waste Management 2010 (WM2010) Awards Luncheon to be held in Phoenix, AZ. Goddard received his B.S. and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University and is currently working with Dr. Charlton on a research project to quantitatively verify the mass of a multi-actinide mixture using non-destructive methods. 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.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Stripling Chosen to Receive Roy G. Post Foundation Scholarship

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Hayes Stripling, a first-year graduate student and a DOE Computational Fellow in the Texas A&M Nuclear Engineering Department, has been chosen to receive a $5000 scholarship from the Post Foundation on March 9th 2010 at the Waste Management 2010 (WM2010) Awards Luncheon to be held in Phoenix, AZ. Stripling received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M in May of 2009, and he is currently working with Dr. Marvin Adams on research related to Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) in scientific computing. 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.