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ORNL Radioisotope Production Post-Bachelor’s Research Associate
Apply here: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/ORNL20-33-EESD
Purist, a startup company and part of the Innovation Crossroads Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is focused on developing a technology that can be implemented in small-scale, underutilized research nuclear reactors for on-demand production of high-purity medical radioisotopes. Purist is seeking candidates for a Post-Bachelor’s Research Associate to support this project. The successful candidate will conduct experiments to design, fabricate, and characterize targets for radioisotope production. The candidate will actively contribute to the optimization of the radioisotope production system through design and engineering efforts.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
· Target design based on transition metals and lanthanides.
· Target synthesis and fabrication, including thin films and nanowires.
· Target characterization using techniques including: SEM, TEM, EDS, and ICP-MS.
· Designing and executing experiments to optimize unit process steps, device structures, process integration, and automation of the isotope production technology.
· Analyses and interpreting of experimental data and development of predictive computer models.
Qualifications:
Candidates should currently be pursuing or recently have completed a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, physics, materials science, chemical engineering, or other relevant engineering fields. Strong desire for candidates to currently be enrolled in a master’s program or pursuing continuing education. Preference will be given to those who have experience in nuclear science and/or electrochemical science, inorganic and lanthanide chemistry and/or polymer-based chemistry.
For more information, visit the opportunity posting or send an email to ORNLedu@orau.org.
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My name is Joe Ferrara and I am reaching out on behalf of AVA Labs – a leading blockchain platform spun out of Cornell and led by Professor Emin Gün Sirer.
This May, we’ll be hosting a virtual hackathon for the top computer science and engineering students across the world to develop new applications for financial products and services, and build infrastructure tools that could someday be used by millions of people on the AVA platform.
More details on the event are in the note below, and linked here: https://www.avalabs.org/ava-x/hackathons/university-hackathon-may-2020
And here is a recent Bloomberg News article featuring AVA: New Startup Aims to Prove Blockchain Fast Enough for Finance
We would be thrilled if you share this event with your students and encourage their participation. Please feel free to use the following text, or let me know how if there’s another format your team uses to notify students of opportunities like this, and we will create what you need.
This May, AVA Labs, a next-generation blockchain platform spun out of Cornell and led by Professor Emin Gün Sirer, is hosting a month-long virtual hackathon for the best and brightest computer science and engineering students in the world.
The event will focus on developing new applications for financial products and services, and infrastructure tools that could someday be used by millions of people on the AVA platform. In addition to opportunities for close mentorship with our engineering leadership and early exposure to the most anticipated blockchain launch of 2020, students will have the opportunity to compete for up to $50,000 in prizes.
I look forward to hearing your thoughts and answering any questions you may have.
Kind regards,
Joe–
Joseph FerraraBusiness Development Associate @ Ava Labs