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      ANS names 2027 Congressional Fellows

      Loumis

      Lockhart

      The American Nuclear Society is excited to announce that it has officially selected two of its members to serve as the 2027 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. Madeline Lockhart and Aristidis Loumis will provide key support to one of the Society’s four strategic pillars of action: informing policymakers to enable better decisions and stronger policies. They will achieve this by serving a one-year term on Capitol Hill either in a congressional member’s personal office or with a congressional committee, starting next January.

      Some context: ANS Congressional Fellows are among the nearly 30 scientists and engineers who participate annually in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program. More than 2,000 fellows have served through the overarching program since its inception in 1973. ANS initiated its program in 2000, and in 2023, expanded it to host two fellows per year.

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Award Recipients

2019 2021

Arthur Holly Compton Award in Education (ETWDD)

X. George Xu

E. Gail de Planque Medal

Kliss McNeel

Milton Levenson Distinguished Service Award

John Bennion

Kevin R. O'Kula

Early Career Reactor Physicist Award (RPD)

Benjamin R. Betzler

Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal

Peter B. Lyons

Fellow of ANS

Dr. David L. Aumiller
Dr. J. Rory Kennedy
Dr. Karen Vierow Kirkland
Dr. David J. Kropaczek
Ms. Evelyn M. Mullen PE
Prof. Lin Shao
Dr. Michael L. Zerkle

Dr. Rita Baranwal
Prof. Yaron Danon
Dr. Mitchell Farmer
Mr. Dennis W. Henneke
Dr. Kostadin N. Ivanov
Dr. Richard Lee
Dr. Thomas A. Mehlhorn
Dr. Juergen Rapp
Dr. Kumar Sridharan

Samuel Glasstone Award (ETWDD)

University of New Mexico (Best Section)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Best Section)
University of Wisconsin Madison (Honorable Mention)
Missouri University of Science & Technology (Honorable Mention)

H.M. Hashemian Mid-Career Award (HFICD)

Pareez E. Golub

Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award

Janelle P. Wharry

Landis Public Communication and Education Award

William G. Wabbersen, Jr.

George C. Laurence Pioneering Award (NISD)

Stephen Ted Wood

Leadership Award

Rebecca L. Steinman

W. Bennett Lewis Award (DESD)

William H. Hannum

FCWMD Lifetime Achievement Award (FCWMD)

Andrew G. Sowder

Robert L. Long Training Excellence Award (ETWDD)

Patrick Berry
J. Wesley Hines

Don Miller Award (HFICD)

David L. Rahn
Richard T. Wood

Mark Mills Award (ETWDD)

Samuel Joseph Cope
Nathan H. Hart

Mishima Award

Rudolph Johannes
Maria (Rudy) Konings

Nuclear Historic Landmark Award

Fuel Cycle Facility, Idaho National Laboratory
Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement Award

Maria Okuniewski

Outstanding Achievement Award (FED)

Ahmed Hassanein

Presidential Citations

ANS Young Members Group
Chairman Kristine L. Svinicki
Leah Spradley Parks
Prof. Dan Gabriel Cacuci
Hon. Rita Baranwal

Ted Quinn Early Career Award (HFICD)

Samir Darbali

Radiation Science and Technology Award (IRD)

Kenan Unlu

Rockwell Lifetime Achievement Award (RPSD)

X. George Xu

Seaborg Medal

Michael Z. Podowski

FCWMD Significant Contribution Award (FCWMD)

Fiona E. Rayment

Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award (NEI)

Siegfried S. Hecker

Standards Service Award

George Flanagan
N. Prasad Kadambi

Student Design Competition (ETWDD)

University of Tennessee Knoxville: Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Reactor Design and Analysis
Authors: Alec Cacheris, Brandon Connor, Will Conroy, Aidan Edens
Advisor: Jason Hayward


University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: Plasma Sustainment and Tin Particle Mitigation in Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography
Authors: Alp Aktuna, Kaitlyn Butler, Andrew Fink, Dario Panici
Advisor: David Ruzic


Purdue University: Design of a Novel Decision-Making Tool for the Analysis of Protective Actions During a Radiological Release
Authors: David Champlin, Mark D’Aloia, Emily Downing, Elizabeth Jaye
Advisor: Shripad Revankar


University of Sharjah: Design and Experimental Verification of a Gamma Radiogauge to Detect Water Level in Ballast Tanks in Oil Platforms
Authors: Eslam A. Ahmed, Jwaher A. Alnaqbi, Priyonta Rahman
Advisor: Walid A. Metwally

North Carolina State University: Design of an Economical Low-Power Fast Spectrum Molten Chloride Reactor
Authors: Charles Goodman, Lindsay Verrico, Thomas Thompson, Vincent Novellino
Advisor: Scott Palmtag

Technical Achievement Award (THD)

Michael Z. Podowski

Theos J. ("Tommy") Thompson Award For Reactor Safety (NISD)

Dennis Henneke

Young Member Excellence Award

Tim Crook
Matthew D. Wargon

Young Members Advancement Award

Lisa Marshall

Walter H. Zinn Medal

William E. Burchill

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