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Amanda Hubbard honored with Secretary of Energy s Appreciation Award | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Credits: Photo: Jerry Hughes Next image Amanda Hubbard, principal research scientist at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), has been awarded a 2020 Secretary of Energy’s Appreciation Award. The award honors Hubbard’s role in the formation of the U.S. Burning Plasma Organization (USBPO), a national association of scientists and engineers involved in researching the properties of magnetically confined burning fusion plasmas. There, she has taken on leadership positions since 2006, including first council vice chair, the council chair, and finally deputy director from 2011 to May 2020, when her service concluded. The award certificate acknowledges Hubbard’s contributions to the USBPO, noting the organization’s importance to fusion experiments like ITER, a next-generation device designed to produce net fusion energy. It states, “Your efforts have facilitated effective communication between members of the domestic fusion progra

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