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WYSE Camp Applications Open Soon for Summer 2025!

Campers will explore NPRE through lectures and discussions, hands-on activities, computer programming and simulations, demonstrations, lab tours, and field trips. Applications open on February 1, 2025.

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Nuclear-Powered UIUC

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, working with Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation, is working on a project that would bring a microreactor to campus. 

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NPRE has multiple positions open for postdoctoral research.

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L. Vergari

Featured Faculty

L. Vergari

Assistant Professor

Dr. Vergari has expertise in molten salt chemistry, graphite science, and multi-physics and has led or collaborated in projects involving electrochemistry, corrosion, mass transport, material characterization, material testing, data science, and reduced order modeling.