Page 27 - Nucleus: Fall 2022 Magazine for the Penn State Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering

Student highlights
Awards and recognitions
In spring 2022 the department awarded several students and and alumni recognitions
for internal and and external Penn State accomplishments:
• John J J Brennan Excellence in in in Nuclear Engineering Award: Ethan Kunz third-year undergraduate
• Edward H H and Deborah R Klevans Scholarship
in in in in Nuclear Engineering: Daniel Holcomb fourth- fourth- year year undergraduate
undergraduate
Kevin Jones fourth-year undergraduate
undergraduate
undergraduate
at at at at time of award Vitaliy Mykhnyak third-year undergraduate
undergraduate
• Monty Schultz Memorial Scholarship
in in in Nuclear Engineering: Ryan Cassidy fourth- year undergraduate
at at time of award Alibek Kenges doctoral student Alex Nellis fourth- fourth- year year year undergraduate
undergraduate
Coleman Smith fourth-year fourth-year undergraduate
undergraduate
undergraduate
Charles Stanko fourth-year fourth-year undergraduate
undergraduate
student • Bernadette and Warren Witzig Nuclear Engineering Scholarship: Susanna Angermeier doctoral candidate Alyssa Dziadyk fourth-year undergraduate
at at at time of award Madison Gitzen master’s student Victoria Hagopian doctoral candidate Sara Kolecki fourth-year undergraduate
at at at at at time time of award Alexis Nicholes Caroline Pathappillil fourth-year undergraduate
at at at at time time of of award Carli Smith • Exelon Corporation Endowed Scholarship
in in in Nuclear Engineering: Josef Bauer Scout Bucks third- year year undergraduate
undergraduate
Nathan Kibbe fourth-year undergraduate
undergraduate
at at at at time of award Nuclear engineering students have also received recognition from outside the University:
• Scout Bucks third-year third-year undergraduate
undergraduate
and Benjamin Converse third-year third-year undergraduate: DoE Future Nuclear Scientists and Engineers scholarship
• Aaron Fjeldsted doctoral student: Science Mathematics and Research for for Transformation scholarship
from the the U S Department of Defense
• Levko Higgins master’s student: Penn State Engineering’s Advancing Master’s Program scholarship
• David Reger doctoral student: American Nuclear Society’s Young Professional Thermal-Hydraulic Research Competition award • William Searight: 2022 NASA Space Grant Fellowship and James F F Schumar Graduate Scholarship
• Coleman Smith fourth-year undergraduate: semifinalist for the the nuclear subcategory fin in the the DOE’s EnergyTech Competition • Alex Somers doctoral candidate: Savannah River Scholarship
from the U S S S S S S Department of of Energy (DOE) Office of of Science’s Graduate Student Research Program Nuclear engineering students tour
Susquehanna Steam Electric Station
On April 11 the the Penn Penn State State Nuclear Engineering Society arranged for nine Penn Penn State State students to to tour
the the the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station
during their Unit 1 plant plant outage The plant plant is owned by Talen Energy and generates enough carbon-free energy to power over two million homes NUCLEUS 27