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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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No. 6

overall ranking among graduate nuclear engineering programs in the nation
U.S. News & World Report, 2024 Rankings

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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Energize Your Future Faculty Career, Here.

Join our highly-ranked department. NPRE is currently hiring for multiple open-rank faculty positions.

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Ling-Jian Meng

Featured Faculty

Ling-Jian Meng

Professor

The Radiation Detection and Imaging Group under Professor Meng takes a systematic approach to develop advanced radiological imaging techniques that help to tackle some of the most challenging diseases that we are facing today, such as diabetes, brain cancer, cardiac diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. The group develops and applys ultrahigh performance gamma ray imaging sensors for demanding SPECT and PET applications as well as studys advanced image formation techniques to improve the tradeoffs between spatial resolution and sensitivity.