Graduate News
UC Berkeley’s New Molten Fluoride Salt Testbed Takes on Fission and Fusion Energy Challenges
The HEAT Lab’s newly commissioned forced-flow FLiNaK facility provides a versatile experimental platform for high-temperature…
Jacob Sebastian Receives Hoffman Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship
Jacob Sebastian, a recent Ph.D. graduate from UC Berkeley’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, has been…
CJ Cruz Named 2026 Thomas H. Pigford Fellow
CJ Cruz, a graduate student in UC Berkeley’s concurrent master’s program in Nuclear Engineering and…
Berkeley PhD Student Agustina Jolly Advocates for Nuclear Power in International News
Incoming PhD student Agustina Jolly who received her UG in UCB as well is a tremendous…
Current and Former PhD Students Capture First-Place Awards at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Northern California Young Investigators’ Symposium
At the 2026 Northern California Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)…
UCBNE at Fung Institute End of Year Showcase 2025
UCBNE Master of Engineering students showcased their capstone team projects at the Fung Institute End…
NE130/230 Students Explore Historic Plutonium Sample
Last week, students in the spring 2025 NE130/230 Analytical Methods for Nonproliferation course had a…
Oscar Matousek Awarded Best Oral Presenter at UCSF Medical Physics in Imaging and Therapy Research Symposium
Congratulations to UCBNE graduate student Oscar Matousek on being awarded Best Oral Presenter at the first annual…
Chai Peddeti Featured in NEUP Newsletter
PhD student Chai Peddeti has been featured in the December 2024 edition of NEUPdate, the…
Localized Isotope Specific Characterization on Fuel Pellets
The Nuclear Materials Group at UC Berkeley’s Nuclear Engineering Department has discovered a novel application…