The Consortium for Enabling Technologies & Innovation 2.0 (ETI2) is now accepting applications for its Graduate Fellowship Program. ETI2 supports outstanding doctoral students advancing research in fields essential to the U.S. nuclear and energy enterprise. Fellowship Benefits include:

• Participation in ETI2 annual meetings, technical workshops, and sponsor briefings
• Competitive annual stipend of $42k over 12 months
• Full tuition and fees
• Annual allowance for travel expenses to ETI2 workshop and UPR
• Renewable up to four years, contingent on performance and funding
• Mandatory practicum/internship at an ETI2 national lab or partner site (minimum 12 weeks)

Application is due October 1, 2025, and the fellowship starts on January 1, 2026. More details please see the ETI2 Graduate Fellowship info, including the Eligibility & Requirements. Please apply now!

Dr. Roxanne Moore, one of the faculty co-PIs in the ETI 2.0 Consortium, and the principal research engineer in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, received the 2025 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education for her outstanding contributions to engineering education and professional service.

Dr. Moore was honored at the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition awards luncheon in Montreal in June 2025. The award recognizes and honors women engineering educators who make an impact beyond the classroom and have performance histories of research and service within an engineering school. More details are available here.

Dr. Steven Biegalski at Georgia Tech, the Lead of ETI2.0 Cross-cutting Area 2, is receiving the 2025 George Hevesy Medal — the highest international award for career achievements in applied nuclear and radiochemistry.

The medal honors Biegalski’s research and contributions to nuclear analytical chemistry, specifically for “developing comprehensive methods for analyzing radioxenon signatures and creating isotopically pure radioxenon samples, supporting global nuclear monitoring efforts and nuclear accident response.” The medal is sponsored by the Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry with honorees selected by a dedicated panel of scholars overseen by the Board of the Hevesy Award. The award is named after György Hevesy, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1943 for his work on the use of radionuclides as tracers in the study of chemical processes. Dr. Biegalski will receive the Hevesy Medal in March.

The Consortium for Enabling Technologies and Innovation (ETI) 2.0, a consortium of 12 universities and 12 national labs, which is led by Georgia Tech and directed by Prof. Anna Erickson, wins a $25 million U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) award to support the basic science that underlies the nuclear security and nonproliferation missions.

ETI2.0 links basic university research with applied laboratory research to advance technical capabilities in support of nuclear security and nonproliferation missions of NNSA, enabling an effective pipeline of talented next-generation experts to establish careers at DOE national laboratories. “The consortium is critical to the future of NNSA’s nuclear security and nonproliferation research and development work,” said Jeff Chamberlin, head of NNSA’s nonproliferation efforts. “Once they develop a concept, the national laboratories can iterate and test its capabilities until it’s ready for the private sector to adopt.” (check here more details)

ETI2.0 will leverage the strong foundation of interdisciplinary, collaboration-driven technological innovation developed in the ETI Consortium funded in 2019. The technical mission of the ETI 2.0 team is to advance technologies across three core disciplines: data science and digital technologies in nuclear security and nonproliferation, precision environmental analysis for enhanced nuclear nonproliferation vigilance and emergency response, and emerging technologies. They will be advanced by research projects in novel radiation detectors, algorithms, testbeds, and digital twins.

While half the original collaborators remain, ETI2.0 sought new institutional partners for their research expertise, including Abilene Christian University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Stony Brook University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Other university collaborators include the Colorado School of Mines, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, Texas A&M University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. National lab partners are the Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Idaho National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Nevada National Security Site, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and Savannah River National Laboratory. (more details are available here)