Congrats to Jessica who was selected to receive the 2022 Alfred R. Cooper Young Scholars Award from the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society. This award was presented for the undergraduate glass research entitled “Lithium-Iron Silicate Glasses as Simulants of High-Iron Nuclear Waste Glass.”

Congratulations to our new group of PhDs from this year!

1. Dave Bollinger “Materials Synthesis and Characterization for Waste Valorization and Nuclear Waste Containment” June 2022
2. Natalie Smith-Gray “Analysis of Simulated Nuclear Waste Glass on Sulfur Solubility and Refractory Corrosion” June 2022
3. Jani Jesenovec “Doping and Alloying of Monoclinic β-Ga₂O₃ Grown by Czochralski and Vertical Gradient Freeze” July 2022