Congratulations to the following alumni on their selection to the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) 2018  Nuclear Scholars Initiative class.  This initiative aims to provide top graduate students and young professionals from around the country with a unique venue to interact and dialogue with senior experts on nuclear weapons issues. 

Capt Keriann";Austin" De Lorme (MS Applied Physics, 2014)

1st Lt Carl Eichert (MS Nuclear Engineering, 2016)

MAJ Zachary Hadfield, USA (MS Nuclear Physics, 2013)

According to the Nuclear Network website, addressing an increasingly complex array of nuclear weapons challenges in the future will require talented young people with the necessary technical and policy expertise to contribute to sound decision making on nuclear issues over time. To that end, PONI runs a yearly Nuclear Scholars Initiative for a group of select graduate students and young professionals. Those accepted into the program are hosted once per month at CSIS in Washington, DC, where they participate in daylong workshops with senior government officials, policy experts, and technical experts. Over the course of the 6-month program, Scholars are required to prepare a research product and write a blog post. The research product options include a journal article, an op-ed, a presentation or a collaborative research product. Scholars will be given the opportunity to develop their research product in teams throughout the program, be matched with a senior expert to review their research, and later publish in a journal produced by CSIS, present at a PONI conference or publish externally. The program will run from January to June 2018.