NRL Co-Sponsors ORNL Researcher’s Talk at Women in Engineering

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The Ohio State University Research Reactor attracts researchers from across the country to come for unique experiments to support their research. The next time Oak Ridge National Lab’s researcher Dr. N. Dianne Bull Ezell comes to the research reactor, her visit will include a detour for a Women in Engineering Café event.

“The Ohio State University Nuclear Reactor Laboratory would like to thank Dianne for not only coming to Columbus to give this seminar but also being a very strategic partner with us, said NRL Director and Nuclear Engineering Program Director,” Raymond Cao. “We hope this opportunity recruits more women engineers into Nuclear Science and Engineering research.”

Dr. Ezell is an expert in integrated circuit design and has utilized the reactor for several experiments. Women in Engineering students will have the unique opportunity to hear about her career and ask questions. This event is being also put on with the Society of Women Engineers and Wi3+ at The Ohio State University.  Both organizations have similar missions.  They want to see women succeed in engineering. 

The Ohio State University Research Reactor is the only research reactor in the State of Ohio and one of only a handful of research reactor facilities in DOE’s Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) program. That unique status, in addition to the reactor’s unique design which allows in-situ measurements for experimenters, has made the reactor a hot bed for researchers to come and test their experiments. 

“Even students who are not directly doing research at the reactor benefit from this unique resource on campus,” says Nuclear Reactor Laboratory Senior Associate Director Andrew Kauffman. “In this case, women will have the opportunity to hear from a very successful and accomplished researcher who understands the challenges of being a female in a mostly male-dominated field.”

Click the link below to RSVP by February 24:

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