Lauren Kohler, Noah Etter, and Nolan Ritchie advised by Dr. Diaconeasa were awarded at the ANS Student Conference 2024 by the Nuclear Installations Safety Division for their presentation on the “Enhancing Probabilistic Risk Assessment for the PULSTAR Research Reactor with Advanced Fault Tree and Initiating Event Analysis Techniques” under the area of “Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability”. This work was developed under their year long senior design project.