Professors Stubbins and Uddin did us proud in D.C.!

NPRE is honored to host American Nuclear Society president Kenneth Petersen on campus next Tuesday, April 16th. Petersen will give our weekly undergraduate seminar from 12-12:50 p.m. in Room 4039 of the Campus Instructional Facility and will be in 220 Talbot Lab at 5 p.m. for an informal Q&A.

Professor Ling-Jian Meng is currently leading a research effort to develop methods to study brain functions on a transformative scale, thanks to a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/m…

Congratulations to Professors Brooks, Curreli, Liebenberg, Mohaghegh, Roy, Sankaran and Stubbins for being ranked as excellent by their students last fall! With great educators comes great education.

NPRE assistant professor April Novak is one of the panelists. Attend if you can!

Lorenzo Vergari, NPRE at Illinois professor, shares enthusiasm over record-breaking fusion test as a positive step towards cleaner energy. Scientists in Great Britain were able to sustain enough fusion to power 12,000 homes. bit.ly/3TmH2pl

As global temperatures rise due to climate change, Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the US could be disturbed. William Roy, NPRE at Illinois professor, predicts 'greater issues from climate change than the mobilization of radionuclides from the Cold War.' bit.ly/49BBRaP

NPRE student Brady Moore is the recipient of this year's The Grainger College of Engineering (The Grainger College of Engineering) Harvey H. Jordan award, given annually to a senior based on 'high scholastic standing and character.' Congratulations, Brady!

Assistant professor Syed Bahauddin Alam is a co-author on a newly published paper on digital twins and their application to nuclear energy systems. You can read it here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

Assistant professor Lorenzo Vergari was quoted in this story about the potential of small modular reactors in Illinois: dailyherald.com/news/20231128/…

NPRE has hired five new faculty this year, with four of them starting this semester (pictured from left, Professors Vergari, Novak, Alam and Liebenberg). Read more about them here: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/n…

NPRE professor David Ruzic (David Ruzic) and his Illinois Plasma Institute have been featured in the Fall 2023 issue of Limitless, The Grainger College of Engineering 's biannual magazine.

Read the story here: grainger.illinois.edu/news/magazine/…

(Photo credit: Virgil Ward, GCOE)

In a new paper, University of Illinois researchers—led by NPRE professor Mohan Sankaran—delve deeper into spatial afterglows, a secondary part of atmospheric-pressure plasmas that has been largely ignored in present research. Story: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/s…

Q & A: Tomasz Kozlowski discusses his promotion to full professor and his NPRE outlook: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/k…

NPRE has opened a search for a new full-time research professor who will support the research, education, and maintain and establish the research program at the Illinois Plasma Institute (IPI) and serve as the Associate Director of the IPI. Details here: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

NPRE graduate students Amanda Bachmann (Amanda Bachmann) and Jeremy Mettler (@tokamak990) —along with fellow The Grainger College of Engineering students recently attended a program to learn more about how to become faculty in the future. Story: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/n…

Our students are on the Main Quad today, engaging and educating people about nuclear energy. Great to see them doing their part for Nuclear Science Week!
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Congratulations J'Tia Hart J’Tia, Duchess of Liverpool in her own right🖊 for winning the Social Responsibility in the #Nuclear Community Award for her outstanding efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the #nuclear field!

Read more: ans.org/news/article-5…

One of NPRE’s newest faculty members, assistant professor April Novak, was recently named one of this year’s R&D World magazine's R&D 100 Award Winners.
Read the story here: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/n…

As she starts this new stage of her career as an associate professor, Angela Di Fulvio was asked to talk about her past, present and future in NPRE: npre.illinois.edu/news/stories/d….