![Ryan working in the glovebox](https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-aml/wp-content/uploads/sites/674/2022/12/image0.jpeg)
We’re spending the last days of 2022 celebrating our best research accomplishments of the year! Graduate student Ryan Finkelstein shares his best accomplishment below:
“This year I was awarded a $100K proposal to 3D print ZrC for nuclear thermal propulsion applications. I also nitrided dysprosium using a carbothermic reduction process, which will eventually be used to make uranium nitride.”
![A flake of nitrided dysprosium](https://www.boisestate.edu/coen-aml/wp-content/uploads/sites/674/2022/12/UN-copy.jpg)