Three Doctoral Students Selected for Department of Energy Program
May 22, 2024 黑料社区
By Katya Hrichak
Three doctoral students were selected for the 2023 Solicitation 2 Cycle.
Michael Colletta, a doctoral candidate in applied physics; Virginia McGhee, a doctoral candidate in chemistry and chemical biology; and Liana Shpani, a physics doctoral candidate, are three of 86 graduate students selected for the program.
This solicitation cycle鈥檚 graduate students represent 31 states and Puerto Rico, come from 57 universities, and will be conducting research at 16 DOE national laboratories.
鈥淲orking at the National Renewable Energy Labs (NREL) will provide me with access to specialized instruments not available at Cornell,鈥� said McGhee. 鈥淚 will learn synthesis techniques from the field鈥檚 leading experts and will bring back that knowledge to share with my colleagues.鈥�
DOE SCGSR awardees 鈥渨ork on research projects of significant importance to the Office of Science mission that addresses critical energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges at national and international scales,鈥� according to the award .
Colletta鈥檚 research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will be in the DOE鈥檚 basic science for clean energy and decarbonization research area, McGhee鈥檚 research at NREL will be in instruments and techniques research and development for electron and scanning probe microscopy, and Shpani鈥檚 research at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will be in accelerator science.
鈥淚 am honored to be selected for the SCGSR Program,鈥� said McGhee. 鈥淚 am excited to work with and learn from the world鈥檚 leading scientists in renewable energy research.鈥�