Kleinfeldt Recognized for ANS Leadership

6/14/2011

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Kleinfeldt Recognized for ANS Leadership

NPRE graduate student Brian R Kleinfeldt has gained national recognition for his leadership in guiding the American Nuclear Society Student Chapter at Illinois.

Awarded during the ANS student convention in April, the commendation from the  American Nuclear Society Student Sections Committee recognizes leadership that has resulted in significant achievements and the advancement of the nuclear community. The committee also recognized a student from the Texas A&M University section.

Kleinfeldt served as the 2010-11 president of Illinois’ group. NPRE Prof. Rizwan Uddin, who nominated Kleinfeldt, noted his work in responding to the Japanese nuclear crises among other efforts.

ANS officers worked with NPRE faculty to hold a special meeting to answer student members’ questions about what was happening in Japan. Kleinfeldt and NPRE student Matt Duchene also wrote an editorial, "American Nuclear Society response to the Japanese nuclear incident, explosions", to the student newspaper, The Daily Illini, to help inform students. Kleinfeldt also helped organize a special bake sale, raising $200 for the ANS Japan Relief Fund.

Other examples of Kleinfeldt’s leadership were:

• organized a bake sale for Relay for Life

• organized community service trash pickup on campus as part IHelp, the Alumni Association’s volunteer program

• recruited 90 members to ANS – the largest on record.

• led the ANS chapter in winning the Spirit of Illini Engineering Award during Engineering Open House 2011 (with the help of Outreach/EOH Chair Valentyn Bykov and other ANS volunteers)

• helped run two Boy Scout merit badges programs (previously, just one was held)

• took 15 students to the ANS national conference, at which three student papers were submitted

• organized trips to nuclear power plants in Lasalle, Illinois, and Clinton, Illinois.


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This story was published June 14, 2011.