Brookhaven Lab Recruits Interns for the International Atomic Energy Agency
June 11, 2004
Upton, NY -Thirteen recent graduates from colleges around the country have been recruited by the U.S. Department of Energy_s Brookhaven National Laboratory for a one-year internship at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. Brookhaven_s International Safeguards Project Office (ISPO), which recruited the students, provides technical assistance to the IAEA for verifying that nuclear material placed under IAEA safeguards is not diverted for non-peaceful purposes.
Susan Pepper (not in the photo), head of ISPO at Brookhaven Lab, initiated the IAEA Internship Program in 2002. Catherine Osiecki (standing, far left) and Melvyn Morris (standing, far right) of Brookhaven_s Office of Educational Programs (OEP), help to administer the IAEA internship program. Christopher Dalton (standing, fourth from left), served a one-year IAEA internship in Vienna starting in June 2002, and last year he was hired by OEP as a consultant to help with web design. He is returning to IAEA for a one-year position as a software development consultant.
At their orientation session at Brookhaven Lab are IAEA interns (seated, from left): Francesco Queirolo, resident of Germantown, NY, and graduate of Union College; Kathleen Donoghue, West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Columbia University; Christopher Duncan, Columbia, Missouri, University of Missouri; Andrew Janowczyk, East Meadow, NY, Rensselear Polytechnic Intstitute; (standing, from left) Maryam Tatavosian, Erie, Pennsylvania, Mercyhurst College; Kendra Klump, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, Georgetown University; Jessica Satterfield, Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia; and Cherie Knickerbocker, Cookeville, Tennessee, Tennessee Technological University. The students are joined by Donna Occhiogrosso and Barbara Hoffheins of Brookhaven_s ISPO.
IAEA interns who were not available for the photo include: Jonathan Essner, Oakland, California, University of California, Berkeley, and Monterey Institute for International Studies (MIIS); Sinkyung Kim, Irvine, California, MIIS; Jennifer Olszewski, Hammond, Indiana, Purdue University; Indhira Ramirez, New York City, Long Island University; and Kimberly van Dyke, Annandale, Virginia, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.
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