Three Michigan State University graduate students were selected for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research program. The award provides world-class training and access to state-of-the-art facilities at DOE national laboratories, preparing the next generation of scientists for roles of critical importance to the nation’s energy, science and national innovation priorities.
The Science Graduate Student Research program is highly competitive, selecting only 69 students from across 27 states in its most recent solicitation cycle. For MSU graduate students Ethan Fletcher, Bill Good and Brandon Kristy, the program supports their thesis research in collaboration with host scientists at U.S. National Laboratories.
Ethan Fletcher, a Ph.D. student at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at MSU, focuses on the intersection of materials science and heavy-duty engineering. His research specialty is accelerator research and development, specifically looking at how materials behave when exposed to intense ion beams.