Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE at Illinois) undergraduate Kathryn Mummah has won national scholarships from the American Nuclear Society and the U.S. Department of Energy.
The ANS Decommissioning & Environmental Sciences Division Undergraduate Scholarship is awarded to engineering or science major students pursuing one of a number of areas: decommissioning/decontamination, management/characterization of radioactive waste, restoration of the environment, or nuclear engineering.
Mummah also won one of the 59 Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) scholarships the DOE recently awarded to undergraduates nationwide in engineering and science programs related to nuclear energy.
This summer, Mummah, a rising junior, will be interning for the second time with Exelon Generation. In addition to her interest in nuclear utilities, Mummah also would like to learn more about nuclear design by interning with a company specializing in that activity.
Having served the past year as the Vice President of the American Nuclear Society student chapter, Mummah will begin a term as president next fall. She also has served as the NPRE Undergraduate Advisory Board representative to Engineering Council and is a University of Illinois James Scholar.
Also winning DOE NEUP fellowships this year have been new NPRE bachelor’s degree graduates April Novak and Christopher Keckler. Both will attend the University of California-Berkeley for graduate school.