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2025 ANS Annual Conference
June 15–18, 2025
Chicago, IL|Chicago Marriott Downtown
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ANS announces 2025 Presidential Citations
One of the privileges of being president of the American Nuclear Society is awarding Presidential Citations to individuals who have demonstrated outstanding effort in some manner for the benefit of ANS or the nuclear community at large. Citations are conferred twice each year, at the Annual and Winter Meetings.
ANS President Lisa Marshall has named this season’s recipients, who will receive recognition at the upcoming Annual Conference in Chicago during the Special Session on Tuesday, June 17.
Technical Session|Sponsored by Education, Training, & Workforce
Saturday, April 16, 2022|3:00–4:30PM CDT|Innovation Room
Sponsored by ANS Education, Training, and Workforce Development Division
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Useful Practices in Open-Source Software Development for Nuclear Science and Engineering
Oleksandr Yardas (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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Liquid Nitrogen Cooled Cloud Chamber for Education and Outreach
Amelia Scigliano (US Naval Academy)
Notation for Non-Integer Bonds in Lewis Dot Structure
Brison A. Cowan (Oregon State ), Mackenzie Bjornstedt (Oregon State )
Study of Neutron Detectors for Virtual Labs in Nuclear Engineering
Asif S. Anwar (Purdue), Junghyun Bae (Purdue), Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue)
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