NPRE students gain national ANS scholarships

Three graduate students and two undergraduates from Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, have gained national scholarships from the American Nuclear Society.

Graduate students Anshuman Chaube of India and Andrei Rykhlevskii of Russia received John and Muriel Landis Scholarships. This is the second Landis Scholarship for Rykhlevskii.

Chaube is a first year PhD student working on multiphysics simulations of molten salt reactors and energy analysis aimed at minimization of carbon emission in Japan. Rykhlevskii is a third-year graduate student conducting research in advanced reactors and fuel cycles.

Graduate student Carly Romnes of Dulce, New Mexico, received a Michael Lineberry Graduate Scholarship. A first-year graduate student, Romnes is performing the data analysis for positron annihilation studies that North Carolina State University is conducting.

Senior Jacob Tellez of Monument, Colorado, won the William R. and Mila Kimel Nuclear Engineering Scholarship, and Senior Alyssa Hayes of Gurnee, Illinois, won the John R. Lamarsh Memorial Scholarship.

President of the Illinois ANS Student Chapter, Tellez has been working the past three summers at Los Alamos National Laboratory where he has conducted research on application of Lie group methods to various analytical and numerical models.

Hayes is working this summer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Higher Education Research Experience Program. She has also worked in the Center for Plasma-Material Interactions at the University of Illinois. A member of Women in Nuclear, Hayes has spent much of the past year traveling within Illinois, sharing information on nuclear power with high school, middle school and grade school students.

 

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