Faculty News

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Lee Bernstein Promoted to Full Professor

The UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department is pleased to announce that Lee Bernstein has been…

June 20, 2024

New UCBNE Publication Chosen as an Editor’s Suggestion in Physical Review C

The recently published paper “Half-life of Ge-71 and the gallium anomaly”, co-authored by UCBNE Professor…

June 4, 2024
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Max Fratoni Awarded ANS Untermyer & Cisler Reactor Technology Medal

UCBNE chair Max Fratoni has been awarded the 2024 ANS Untermyer & Cisler Reactor Technology…

May 21, 2024
Group photo featuring Max Fratoni and others at the PHYSOR conference

UCBNE at PHYSOR 2024

UCBNE students and faculty attended the 2024 American Nuclear Society International Conference on Physics of…

May 9, 2024
Three students pose near poster titled NE 24: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Nuclear Engineering But Were Afraid to Ask

UCBNE at the Emeriti as Mentors Intergenerational Poster Session 2024

During the fourth annual Emeriti as Mentors Intergenerational Poster Session, three students from the spring…

May 2, 2024
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Rebecca Abergel Awarded 2024 Bakar Prize

Professor Rebecca Abergel has been named one of five UC Berkeley faculty members awarded the…

March 13, 2024
Peter Hosemann and others pose in front of the TMS 2024 conference sign

UCBNE at TMS 2024 Conference

The UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering team had a strong showing at the annual Minerals, Metals,…

March 8, 2024
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Peter Hosemann Appointed Deputy Editor for the Journal of Applied Physics

After serving two years as an associate editor for the Journal of Applied Physics (JAP),…

February 28, 2024
Daniel Siefman

New Faculty Announcement: Daniel Siefman

The UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department is pleased to announce new assistant professor Daniel Siefman….

January 10, 2024
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Karl van Bibber to lead research group awarded $3.7M to build new dark matter experiment

Last fall, a coalition of the Simons Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John…

December 15, 2023