UCBNE Alum Tomi Akindele Receives Presidential Early-Career Award

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Last month, UCBNE PhD alum Tomi Akindele was one of nearly 400 scientists and engineers to receive President Biden’s Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). This award aims to recognize early career scientists and engineers who “show exceptional potential for leadership at the frontiers of scientific knowledge during the twenty-first century”. Akindele…

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Chai Peddeti Featured in NEUP Newsletter

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PhD student Chai Peddeti has been featured in the December 2024 edition of NEUPdate, the Nuclear Energy University Program’s monthly newsletter in a write-up titled “From “Don’t Know” to Doctorate”, highlighting his current and future research. Read the full story from NEUP here.

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Faculty Search: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor–Radiation Detection and Instrumentation–Nuclear Engineering

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Apply now to Assistant/Associate/Full Professor–Radiation Detection and instrumentation–Nuclear Engineering. Position overview Position title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor Radiation Detection and Instrumentation Salary range: The current salary range for this position is Assistant Professor $103,700 – $151,600 (9-month academic year salary); Associate Professor/Professor $124,800 – $246,900 (9-month academic year salary), however, off-scale salary and other components of pay, which would…

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Bethany Goldblum elected to IEEE Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee

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UCBNE Professor Bethany Goldblum was elected to the Radiation Instrumentation Steering Committee (RISC) of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS). The RISC oversees and manages activities related to radiation instrumentation technology within the IEEE NPSS, including issues related to education, research and development. She will serve a three-year term beginning January 1, 2025…

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Localized Isotope Specific Characterization on Fuel Pellets

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The Nuclear Materials Group at UC Berkeley’s Nuclear Engineering Department has discovered a novel application to utilize a technique to precisely quantify isotopes in hazardous materials under extreme conditions. This breakthrough, led by PhD student Chai Peddeti and Professor Peter Hosemann, with contributions from undergraduate and master’s students, introduces a novel femtosecond laser ablation manufacturing…

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UCBNE at PHYSOR 2024

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UCBNE students and faculty attended the 2024 American Nuclear Society International Conference on Physics of Reactors (PHYSOR 2024). This event brought together a mix of industry professionals, academic personnel, and national lab researchers to talk about the current state of advanced reactor design. Topics included industry projects geared toward employing electricity-producing reactors, different experimental facilities,…

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UCBNE at the Emeriti as Mentors Intergenerational Poster Session 2024

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During the fourth annual Emeriti as Mentors Intergenerational Poster Session, three students from the spring 2024 offering of the class NUCENG 24 “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Nuclear Engineering But Were Afraid To Ask” led by Professor Eric Norman presented a poster describing their final reports from the class. Micaela Bowers, Amanda Fellinge,…

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