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TUNL: Nuclear Physics Educationprovided by

C.R. Howell

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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 from Duke 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

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TUNL: Graduate Education Statistics

Employment of TUNL Graduates

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28%

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National Lab/Gov. Agency Faculty

Univ. Research (non-faculty) Business/Nuclear Medicine

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About 7% (5 out of 70 annually) of the nation’s PhDs in experimental nuclear physics are educated at TUNL

267 Ph.D. degrees awarded since 1954

Number of PhD recipients (2007 – 2012) = 35Current number of graduate students = 44

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TUNL: Graduate Profiles

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Ph.D. Degree Awarded

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John Cesaratto UNC 2011 Research Academic

Mary Kidd Duke 2010 Faculty Academic

Xin Qian Duke 2010 Research Academic

Franklin DuBose NC State 2009 Nuclear Safety Government

Matthew Kiser Duke 2008 Nuclear Security Industry

Carrie Fitzgerald UNC 2002 Faculty Academic

Kevin D. Veal UNC 1998 Nuclear Security Government

John Cesaratto

John Cesaratto adjusting beam intensity from the ECR source he designed and constructed at TUNL’s Laboratory for Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics.

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.

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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.

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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.

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Franklin DuBose2001: 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

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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) .

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Carrie Fitzgerald1996: 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

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Kevin D. Veal1993: 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

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.

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TUNL: Undergraduate Education

• 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.

Institution Number

Duke 9

NC State 2

UNC 20

Other 12

Total 43

Undergraduate students conducting research at TUNL: 2011

Associated Universities (primarily undergraduate serving)

NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU): 2001 - present

Supports 8 students for 10-week research experience at TUNL

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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.)

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TUNL Science outreachNuclear Science Merit Badge of the Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scout Troop 101 of Asheville, NC

Troops learn about radiation through hands-on activities in the Tandem Lab

Troops tour the HIS facility