Malek Abedrabouh, Noah Davis, Veronica Heyl and Jaylen Jones advised by Dr. Diaconeasa were awarded at the ANS Student Conference 2022 by the Nuclear Installations Safety Division for their presentation on the “Initiating Events Analysis to Support Preliminary Steps Toward a Full Scope Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Framework for the PULSTAR Research Reactor” under the area of “Power Reactor Operations, Safety, and Reliability”. This work was developed under their year long senior design project.