ORNL Recent College Graduate Research Profile:
Meeckral Williams
Name and Location of Internship
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and the National Science Foundation (NSF)
DOE Faculty and Student Teams (FaST) Program
Nuclear Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Research Focus
Phase inversion—the phenomenon in which the dispersed liquid phase (drop phase) of a liquid-liquid dispersion becomes continuous and the continuous liquid becomes dispersed—which helps improve the performance of centrifugal contactors in used nuclear applications
Background
Bachelor’s degree, Chemical Engineering
Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas
The Value of the Internship
“Chemical engineering is used in the production of items from microchips to potato chips,” Williams said. “This experience has helped me learn my way around the laboratory… to perform experiments and to be able to present all of the results in a formal presentation without being nervous.”
Recent College Graduates Research Programs
- Advanced Short-Term Research Opportunity (ASTRO)
- Higher Education Research Experiences (HERE) for Students
- Nuclear Engineering Science Laboratory Synthesis (NESLS)
- ORNL Postdoctoral and Post-Master’s Research Associates Program
- University Radioactive Ion Beam (UNIRIB) Consortium