Three faculty members from the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Oregon State University have been tapped to serve in prominent national leadership positions. The recognition will come as no surprise to those familiar with the school’s longstanding and well-deserved reputation as a research powerhouse and a center of academic excellence.
Faced with televised reports of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020, Mar’quis Bryant-Morgan, then a nuclear engineering undergraduate, felt an urgent need to “do something for the community.” In the midst of a global pandemic and civil unrest, he began piecing together what would become the Bryant-Morgan Scholarship to provide financial support for Black students at Oregon State University.
Since he was a teenager growing up in Baker City, Oregon, Trevor Kent Howard has been determined to help save the world.
Joshua Handley’s professional and research interests include next-generation radiation detector design, rapid prototyping, large-scale monitoring systems, and novel analysis techniques. With a focus on gamma spectroscopy and the mission space of Homeland Security and nationwide monitoring operations, Handley’s interests include the use of robotics and autonomous systems for deploying sensors to hazardous or difficult to access areas, reducing the needs for personnel to perform those dirty, dull, or dangerous tasks.
Ilham Variansyah's fields of interest include computational radiation transport, nuclear reactor physics, general numerical and Monte Carlo methods, and high-performance computing.
