Jonathan Pitt (M.S., EMch) has received a student award to attend the 13th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. The conference will be held in Beijing, China, from May 16-20, 2005. Mr. Pitt is advised by Dr. Mirna Urquidi-Macdonald. His paper, "Modeling of Activity Transport in Pressurized Water Reactors," is one among fifty international student papers whose authors were awarded free lodging, registration, local transportation, and technical tours for the conference. Pitt will be presenting his paper via a talk during the conference, in which he will explain how he has used electrochemical principles to model the process of activity transport in pressurized water reactors.

To learn more about the conference, please visit the following site:
http://www.conferencetoolbox.org/ICONE13/index.cfm