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Kairos Power’s Hermes, one of the Risk Reduction Projects awarded by DOE’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program
Kairos Power’s Hermes, one of the Risk Reduction Projects awarded by DOE’s Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program December 16th, 2020 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the projects to …
Rachel Slaybaugh to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road
Rachel Slaybaugh to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Cyclotron Road Nuclear engineer and former ARPA-E program director takes the helm at the Lab’s division for entrepreneurial scientists
Berkeley Material Scientists designs recharge able N95 mask
Berkeley Material Scientists designs rechargeable N95 mask December 9th, 2020 The COVID19 Pandemic has exposed the limits of even the most efficient of masks used by first responders. N95 masks, …
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Kairos Power Selects Location for Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Test Reactor
Kairos Power Selects Location for Fluoride Salt-Cooled High-Temperature Test Reactor December 12th, 2020 Kairos Power has announced the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee will be the …
Grey Batie wows at the 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference (DIRC20)
Grey Batie wows at the 2020 Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference November 13th, 2020 The third annual Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference took place November 12-13, 2020 as a virtual …
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Jasmina Vujic: The First Female Chair of a Nuclear Engineering Department
Jasmine Vujic: The First Female Chair of a Nuclear Engineering Department November 06, 2020 Jasmina Vujic was the first woman to join UC Berkeley’s nuclear engineering faculty in 1992, and …
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E.S. Kuh Chair of Engineering: Peter Hosemann
E.S. Kuh Chair of Engineering: Peter Hosemann September 24th, 2020 Professor and Department Chair Peter Hosemann was announced as the E.S. Kuh Chair of Engineering. This honor is granted to a faculty …
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THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY: Interview with Peter Hosemann
The Future of Nuclear Energy: Interview with Peter Hosemann If you get cancer treatment today, it’s very likely you will get injected with a radioactive substance. That technology is born …
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MRS Graduate Student Awards
MRS Graduate Student Awards Yujun Xie, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at Prof. Peter Hosemann’s group at the University of California at Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy …
DOE- Sponsored Research Addressing Protective Equipment During The Pandemic UCB-NE/LBNL Collaboration
DOE- Sponsored Research Addressing Protective Equipment During The Pandemic UCB-NE/LBNL Collaboration August 19, 2020 Since March 2020 it became obvious that Personnel Protective Equipment (PPE) is essential to maintain core …
Is Nuclear Power the Solution to Climate Change?
Is Nuclear Power the Solution to Climate Change? August 14th, 2020 Paul Dorfman and Staffan Qvist both want to save the climate. But one of them wants to rid the …
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Six Nuclear Engineering Faculty Members Receive U.S. Department of Energy NEUP Grants
Six Nuclear Engineering Faculty Members Receive U.S. Department of Energy NEUP Grants June 18, 2020 NEUP funds nuclear energy research and equipment upgrades at U.S. colleges and universities and provides …
Researchers lead federal efforts to improve COVID-19 testing
Researchers lead federal efforts to improve COVID-19 testing April 22, 2020 The Department of Nuclear Engineering is pleased to announce that one of our very own faculty has been leading …
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David T. Attwood Award for ASTES (AS&T Excellence in Service)
David T. Attwood Award for ASTES (AS&T Excellence in Service) May 8, 2020 Our very own, Marissa Ramirez de Chanlatte, was selected as the recipient for the David T. Attwood …
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Bethany Goldblum to receive 2020 James Corones Award
Bethany Goldblum to Receive 2020 Corones Award April 29, 2020 The Krell Institute has named Bethany Goldblum the recipient of the James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building, and Communication …
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Daniel Kammen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Daniel Kammen elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences April 23, 2020 Nine UC Berkeley faculty members from a wide range of disciplines have been elected to the American …
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climate one Podcast, “What’s the Future for Nuclear Power?”
climate one Podcast, “What’s the Future for Nuclear Power?” April 10th, 2020 Guests Per Peterson, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, UC Berkeley Edwin Lyman, Acting Director, Nuclear Safety Project, Union of Concerned Scientists …
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Jeff Graham Wins Poster Award at the TMS Meeting
Jeff Graham Wins Poster Award at the TMS Meeting February 25, 2020 The Nuclear Engineering Department is pleased to announce that Jeff Graham, a graduate student in Peter Hosemann’s nuclear …
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National Academy of Engineering
Professor Per Peterson, Elected to the National Academy of Engineering February 07, 2020 The Nuclear Engineering Department would like to recognize our very own Professor Per Peterson on his elected …
Fung Feature: Juhi Nandwani, MEng ’20 (NE)
Fung Feature: Juhi Nandwani, MEng ’20 (NE) January 24, 2020 One of our MEng students, Juhi Nandwani, MEng’ 20 (NE) was featured on the Fung Institutes website for her work …
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Best Paper Awards
Announcing: The 2019 UC Berkeley’s Nuclear Engineering Department Best Paper Awards December 13, 2019 This past Friday, our department chair Peter Hosemann continues his annual holiday tradition and gave out …
Rebecca Abergel elected as AAAS Fellow
Rebecca Abergel elected as AAAS Fellow December 3, 2019 Our very own Rebecca Abergel has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an …
The Hertz Foundation Fellowship
Eligibility Eligible applicants for Hertz Fellowships must be students of the applied physical and biological sciences, mathematics, and engineering who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States of …
Students make neutrons dance beneath Berkeley campus
Students make neutrons dance beneath Berkeley campus September 11th, 2018 In an underground vault enclosed by six-foot concrete walls and accessed by a rolling, 25-ton concrete-and-steel door, University of California, …
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Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp 2019
Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp 2019 August 30, 2019 This year the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp took place in Paris (Berkeley has hosted for the past 3 years). However, with the support of the …
Ultra-selective ligand-driven separation of strategic actinides
Ultra-selective ligand-driven separation of strategic actinides Gauthier J.-P. Deblonde, Abel Ricano & Rebecca J. Abergel Metal ion separations are critical to numerousfields, including nuclear medicine, wasterecycling, space exploration, and fundamental …
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Separation Anxiety No More: A Faster Technique to Purify Elements
Separation Anxiety No More: A Faster Technique to Purify Elements June 4, 2019 The actinides – those chemical elements on the bottom row of the periodic table – are used …
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Berkeley Students Win Awards at 2019 ANS Conference
Berkeley Students Win Awards at 2019 ANS Conference Wednesday, April 10th, 2019 Undergraduate students Andrew Dong and Emily Vu won awards for their presentations at the American Nuclear Society Conference …
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Visiting Student Markus Alfreider wins 3rd place in Poster Contest
Visiting Student Markus Alfreider Wins 3rd Place in Poster Contest April 2, 2019 Markus Alfreider is a visiting student from Austria, funded through the Marshall Plan fellowship. He won 3rd …
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CSS 2019 Graduate Student Fellowship Announcement
CCS 2019 Graduate Student Fellowship Announcement March 12, 2019 The Center for Chinese Studies offers annual competitive fellowships for continuing graduate students in Chinese studies. Applications must be received by email by …
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Out for Undergrad Application Round One is Open
Out for Undergrad Application Round One is Open March 11th, 2019 If you’re not familiar with Out for Undergrad (O4U) or the O4U Engineering Conference, you can learn more about it on …
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NE Faculty Rebecca Abergel and BioActinide group highlighted in C&EN
NE Faculty Rebecca Abergel and BioActinide group highlighted in C&EN March 4th, 2019 NE faculty Rebecca Abergel and her BioActinide group were recently highlighted in an article on Chemical and …
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NE Graduate Student Joey Kabel wins ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship 2019
NE Grad Student Joey Kabel wins ThinkSwiss Research Scholarship 2019 February 28th, 2019 Congratulations Joey Kabel, for winning the 2019 Research Scholarship for ThinkSwiss! This allows him to work in …
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Nuclear Energy Institute (Policy) Internship Opportunities
Nuclear Energy Institute (Policy) Internship Opportunities February 26th, 2019 Areas of interest: – Nuclear Generation – Policy Development – Government Affairs – Communications Internships are 10-weeks long during summer. Unofficial …
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Application for CASL Summer Institute 2019
Application for CASL Summer Institute 2019 February 4th, 2019 “The deadline for application for CASL Institute is March 15. Please encourage your students to apply. CASL: The Consortium for Advanced …
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Dr. Raluca Scarlat joins the UCB Nuclear Engineering Faculty
Dr. Raluca Scarlat joins the UCB Nuclear Engineering Faculty January 31, 2019 Raluca O. Scarlat, a UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. Alumna (2012), is returning as our newest faculty member. With a B.S. …
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UCB Scandinavian Department Announces Fernstrom Fellowship
UCB Scandinavian Department Announces Fernstrom Fellowship January 28th, 2019
Nuclear Engineering Faculty Position – UW-Madison
Nuclear Engineering Faculty Position – UW-Madison January 22nd, 2019
2019 Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation (MeV) Summer School Announcement
2019 Modeling, Experimentation, and Validation (MeV) Summer School Announcement January 17th, 2019
Nuclear Engineering Faculty Position – University of New Mexico
Nuclear Engineering Faculty Position – University of New Mexico December 17th, 2018
NSSC Featured on NNSA Website
NSSC featured on NNSA website December 14th, 2018 In an article titled “Academic consortium takes learning about nuclear science on the road”, the National Nuclear Scurity Administration highlights the accomplishments …
NE Student Sarah Stevenson Featured in Idaho National Laboratory Article
NE Student Sarah Stevenson Featured in Idaho National Laboratory Article Sarah Stevenson, a PhD student, was featured this April in an article highlighting her worldly travels in pursuit of nuclear …
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NE Advisory Board Member Rita Baranwal, nominated for Assistant Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy
NE Advisory Board Member Rita Baranwal, nominated for Assistant Secretary of Energy at the Department of Energy FRIDAY, NOV 9TH 2018 Rita Baranwal has been nominated to be an Assistant Secretary of …
NE Professor Ed Morse Publishes “Nuclear Fusion”
NE Professor Ed Morse Publishes “Nuclear Fusion” FRIDAY, NOV 9TH 2018 Professor Ed Morse publishes a book on “Nuclear Fusion” from Springer Publishings International. Congratulations Ed!
NSSC Director and UCB NE Professor Jasmina Vujic elected ANS Fellow
NSSC Director and UCB NE Professor Jasmina Vujic elected ANS Fellow FRIDAY, NOV 9TH 2018 Congratulations to our very own Prof. Jasmina Vujic, for her election to the highest rank of …
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NE MEng Alumni, Joshua McCumber writes about balancing academics and work in new blog on Medium
NE MEng Alumni, Joshua McCumber writes about balancing academics and work in new blog on Medium MONDAY, OCT 15TH 2018 In his new blog post on Medium entitled “A …
University of California, Berkeley ranks 3rd on College Magazine’s “Top 10 Colleges for Engineering Majors”
University of California, Berkeley ranks 3rd on College Magazine’s “Top 10 Colleges for Engineering Majors” September 24, 2018 In an article released on August 9, 2018 on collegemagazine.com,UC Berkeley ranks …
NE Doctoral Candidate Receives Award for Nuclear Engineering Software
NE Doctoral Candidate Receives Award for Nuclear Engineering Software September 6th, 2018 Campus doctoral candidate in nuclear engineering April Novak placed first in the advanced reactor systems category at the …
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Berkeley Lab Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials
Berkeley Lab Team Wins Data-Driven Scavenger Hunt for Simulated Nuclear Materials Competing in a fictitious high-stakes scenario, a group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory …
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