In this episode of Notes from Nash, host Farouk Ramzan talks with the team at Vanderbilt’s Fusion Project. The Vanderbilt Fusion Project, one of the most selective organizations on Vanderbilt’s campus, has successfully developed a miniature nuclear fusion reactor. Representing the project on this episode are Catherine Knox, Chief People Officer and team lead for the Advanced Concepts team, Tommy Pennington, the CEO and co-founder of the Fusion Project and Brayden Edman, the Chief Technology Officer and head of Control and Electronics Systems for the project. We discuss the project’s inception, purpose and future.
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Notes From Nash: Notes with The Vanderbilt Fusion Project: Nuclear Innovation
The Vanderbilt Fusion Project is a transformative, cross-disciplinary engineering project team and research initiative.
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February 18, 2024
About the Contributor
Farouk Ramzan, Staff Podcaster
Farouk Ramzan ('26) is from San Antonio majoring in psychology and economics in the College of Arts & Sciences. In his free time, he fishes, does film photography, writes novels, screenplays, and skeet shoots. He is interested in a vast era of topics ranging from statistical theory to architecture to Russian literature. You can reach him at [email protected].