Jamie Weaver received the Roy. G. Post (http://roygpost.org/) scholarship for the Safe Handling of Nuclear Materials. She will present her work at the Waste Management 2016 conference (http://www.wmsym.org/). Congratulations Jamie! You can see the writeup about here (http://www.roygpost.org/JamieWeaver).
Ke Xu, Yue Cao, and Muad Saleh presented their work at the 60th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) meeting in San Diego in January. Great job!
Prof. McCloy was recently affiliated with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, headed by Prof. Neil Hyatt (https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/materials/staff/nchyatt01) as a Visiting Scientist of Nuclear Materials. McCloy and Hyatt will use this affiliation to strengthen ties between the work in the US and the UK on nuclear waste management. In particular, they will be working together on a new project for glass-ceramic wasteforms, described in a previous post (http://labs.wsu.edu/mccloy/?p=709).
Jamie Weaver attended the “Advanced Topics in XAFS Data Analysis and Modeling” at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, November 5-7, 2015 (http://workshops.ps.bnl.gov/?w=XAFS2015). This short course and interactive workshop was a chance for students and scientists to interact with experts in X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) to share their knowledge on data analysis methods. Here Jamie is with the workshop crew.
The group recently had 2 papers published on work by Yue Cao and Ke Xu. Congratulations!
Jamie Weaver has passed all her prelim exams! Great job. She also recently gave a talk “Alkali technetium (VII) oxides as model compounds for Tc-99 incorporation in glass” on at the American Chemical Society fall meeting in Boston.
We just won a new project for studying glass-ceramic waste forms for proposed nuclear fuel reprocessing. We will team with Rutgers University and a UK consortium including University of Sheffield and Warwick University, as well as Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A link below is provided for the announcement.
José Marcial has won 2nd place in the Artistic Category for the Materials Research Society, WSU Chapter, micrograph contest for “dendritic nepheline in high-level nuclear waste glass.”
Jamie has just received the Golding Family Fellowship in the Sciences from the College of Arts and Sciences at WSU. This award was established by the Golding family to provide support for deserving graduate women in the physical and life sciences. In WSU trivia, Cougar Gold cheese was named after Dr. Norman Golding, who was a dairy science professor in the College of Agriculture at WSU.
Joey and Muad received awards for this years’ Showcase for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (SURCA) poster contest. Joey received a “Novice Researcher Award” for “Compositional Dependence of Crystallization in Nuclear Waste Form Glasses.” Muad received a “Gray” award for “Effects of Heat Treatment of Nuclear Steel on Magnetic Barkhausen Noise.” Congratulations guys! Both also competed in the University of Idaho – Washington State University ASM Annual Paper night.
http://universitycollege.wsu.edu/units/undergraduateresearch/SURCA/awards/