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Nuclear Science User Facilities 14 Every student has that fork-in-the- road moment that defines the rest of their life and more often than not its a good teacher who provides it. Boise State University Assistant Professor JanelleWharry always wanted to be an engineer she just didnt know what kind.The summer after her junior year in high school she left home in Hawaii to attend a two-week program at the University of Illinois and all that changed. It was like a camp saidWharry They had kids from all over and we all got to learn a little bit about the different engineering majors the university offered.They had a nuclear engineering program that really got me interested in the medical applications especially cancer research. She ended up going to the University of Michigan UM where her focus shifted to nuclear energy and finished her masters degree in 2005. She didnt really know where she wanted to go from there so she took a job with Duke Energy in North Carolina for two years as a core design engineer. What I learned there was that the neutronics of a nuclear system are reli- able and very well understood but the main issues we were always having with the plants were the effects of radiation on structural materials. So I decided thats where I would focus my thesis. She went back to UM and received her Ph.D. in 2012.While doing a six-month postdoctoral study there she started looking for a job. She knew academia was where she wanted to be and after all the moving around she had done over the years she just wanted to settle down somewhere and make a life for herself.When Boise State made her an offer it seemed like the perfect fit. I love it hereWharry said.My background is mostly irradiation effects in materials but since I came here and started my own program Ive expanded into metallurgy and mechanical proper- ties.The main focus of my research group is to study how mechanical properties evolve in correlation with microstructure under irradiation. Materials science and engineering is a relatively new area of study at Boise State.The undergraduate program began barely 10 years ago and shortly after that with the help of Micron Technology a masters curriculum was added. In 2012 thanks to a 13 million grant from the Micron Foundation a Ph.D. program was instituted.The first year just over 20 students were seeking their doctorates and today there are more than twice that number along with 50 undergraduates and more than 40 masters students. Boise State is not yet an NSUF partner but along with the University of Idaho and Idaho State University it is a partner in the state-funded CAES. One of my long-term goals for BSU is to establish a partnership withATR NSUF as well Janelle says.Were in the process of buying some pretty cool equipment for in-situ mechanical testing experiments in the transmission electron microscope TEM that Im hoping will bring a unique capability to CAES. Hopefully that will be a major step toward that goal. Janelle Wharry Were in the process of buying some pretty cool equipment for in-situ mechanical testing experiments in the transmission electron microscope TEM that Im hoping will bring a unique capability to CAES.Hopefully that will be a major step toward that goal.