NSF Students Gain Hands-on Experience in Neutron Sciences at ORNL—Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship

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The workshop emphasized hands-on use of instruments at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source and High Flux Isotope Reactor with the goal of showing researchers in diverse fields the benefits of probing materials with neutrons. The event was co-hosted by ORNL and the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program as part of its five-year, $3 million project, “Neutron Scattering for the Science and Engineering of the 21st Century.” “Neutrons are a powerful and unique tool for understanding how our world works, but their applica tion is still relatively new in many areas of science,” said Greg Smith, Structure and Dynamics of Soft Mat ter group leader and ORNL lead for the IGERT workshop. “Through partnerships such as this effort with NSF, we improve the chances that scientists use all the options available to advance their research.”