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TUNL: Nuclear Physics Education provided by C.R. Howell

TUNL: Nuclear Physics Education provided by C.R. Howell. TUNL: Features of Graduate Education. Research experience  Students participate in most aspects of their thesis project: from concept through interpretation and dissemination of results

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TUNL: Nuclear Physics Education provided by C.R. Howell

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  1. TUNL: Nuclear Physics EducationprovidedbyC.R. Howell

  2. TUNL: Features of Graduate Education • Research experience •  Students participate in most aspects of their thesis project: from concept through • interpretation and dissemination of results •  Technical hands-on experience with research and accelerator technologies •  project leadership (including organizing research collaboration and interacting with • technical support staff) • Rich expert and mentor environment • 18 faculty members fromDuke Univ., NC State Univ. and UNC-Chapel Hill • 10 postdocs • 8 research scientists • Expanded academic opportunities • Students can enroll in courses at any of the Triangle universities • University transit bus runs between Duke and UNC • Atmosphere encourages peer interactions • 44 graduate students from the consortium universities • Graduate-student led activities: •  TUNL informal lunch talks (TILT) • Special topics sessions, e.g., nuclear structure •  Data analysis lectures by graduate students and postdoc

  3. TUNL: Graduate Education Statistics About 7% (5 out of 70 annually) of the nation’s PhDs in experimental nuclear physics are educated at TUNL Number of PhD recipients (2007 – 2012) = 35 Current number of graduate students = 44 267 Ph.D. degrees awarded since 1954

  4. TUNL: Graduate Profiles

  5. John Cesaratto 2005: BS in Physics, John Carroll Univ., Cleveland, OH 2011: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, thesis project at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics on measurement of nuclear reaction rates important to understanding elemental variations in globular cluster stars. 2011 – present: Toohig Fellow in Accelerator Science at SLAC with the LHC Accelerator Research Program. John Cesaratto adjusting beam intensity from the ECR source he designed and constructed at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics.

  6. Mary Kidd 2004: BS in Physics Tennessee Technology University 2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on two-neutrino double beta decay measurements 2010 – 2012: Postdoc, Los Alamos National Laboratory 2012 – present: Assistant Professor of Physics, Tennessee Technology University Mary Kidd filling High-purity Germanium detectors with liquid nitrogen at TUNL.

  7. Xin Qian 2003: BS in Physics, Beijing University 2010: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on study of neutron transversity using a polarized 3He target at JLab. Winner of the JLab Thesis Prize in 2011. 2010 – present: Robert A.Millikan Fellow in Experimental Physics and Astronomy, Caltech. Xin Qian working on wire chambers for the Bigbite spectrometer at JLab. This spectrometer was used in the measurements for his thesis project.

  8. Franklin DuBose 2001: BS in Physics, Morehouse College 2001: MS in Physics, Clark Atlanta University 2009: PhD, North Carolina State University, thesis project on neutron EDM measurement, 2009 – present: Manager, Environmental Bioassay Laboratory at Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC

  9. Matthew Kiser 2002: BS in Physics and Mathematics, King College 2008: PhD, Duke University, thesis project on plant physiology studies with radioisotopes in the tandem lab at TUNL, 2008 – present: Senior Scientist, Remote Sensing Laboratory at Joint Base Andrews, MD (National Security Technologies, LLC). Dr. Matthew Kiser receiving the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award from Secretary Chu (for contributions during the NNSA response to the Fukushima Dai'ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident) .

  10. Carrie Fitzgerald 1996: BS in Physics, Stetson University 2002: PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, thesis project in nuclear astrophysics at LENA 2002 – 2005: National Research Council Associateship, Space Sciences Division at the Naval Research Laboratory 2005 – 2009: Senior Scientist, National Security Technologies Remote Sensing Laboratory at Joint Base Andrews in MD 2009 – 2012: Assistant Professor of Physics, Montgomery College – Rockville, MD Campus 2012 – present: Associate Professor of Physics, Montgomery College – Rockville, MD Campus

  11. Kevin D. Veal Dr. Kevin Veal accompanying Sung Kim, the chief Korea expert for the U.S. State Department at 6-Party Talks. Photo is courtesy of China's Xinhua news agency. 1993: BS in Physics, Mississippi State University 1998: Ph.D. , Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,thesis on “Analyzing Powers of (6Li,d) Reactions and the D-State of 6Li” 1999 - 2010: Los Alamos National Lab, Safeguards Science and Technology Directorate (N-1) 2004 - 2007: Temporary assignment to NNSA Headquarters in Washington as Technical Adviser, Office of International Safeguards (NA-243) and the Office of Dismantlement and Transparency (NA-241) 2005 - 2007- Leading technical representative on US delegation to 6-Party Talks seeking an end to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program 2011 - present: Acting Director of the Office of Nuclear Safeguards and Security within DOE/NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation

  12. TUNL: Undergraduate Education Undergraduate students conducting research at TUNL: 2011 NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): 2001 - present • Supports 8 students for 10-week research experience at TUNL Associated Universities (primarily undergraduate serving) • James Madison University • North Carolina A&T State University (HBCU in Greensboro, NC) • North Carolina Central University (HBCU in Durham, NC) • North Georgia College and State University • Penn State Altoona • Tennessee Technological University • Univ. Connecticut, Avery Pt.

  13. TUNL Research Experiences for Undergraduates: Summer 2012 Row 1 (L to R): Wolfe Greene (Univ. Evansville), Olivia Miller (East Tenn. State Univ.), Anna Hughes (RPI), Irene Zawisza (Moravian Coll.), Ashley Huff (FSU), Barbara Fisher (Richard Stockton Coll.) Row 2 (L to R): Neal Anderson (Univ. MI), Peter Koufalis (Kutztown Univ.), Joshua Bradt (Univ. Rochester), Nikki Sanford (High Point Univ.) Row 3 (L to R): Ronald Malone (Gettysburg Coll.), Anthony Charles (UVA), Quesly Daniel (Florida A&M Univ.), Nathan Tripp (Grand Valley State Univ.)

  14. TUNL Science outreach Nuclear Science Merit Badge of the Boy Scouts of America Boy Scout Troop 101 of Asheville, NC Troops tour the HIgS facility Troops learn about radiation through hands-on activities in the Tandem Lab

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