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WYSE Camp Applications Open Now for Summer 2025!

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

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Dr. Katy Huff on StarTalk

Katy Huff, an associate professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering, was recently a guest on Neil DeGrasse Tyson's StarTalk podcast discussing the present and future of nuclear energy.

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 is working to bring a microreactor to campus for research and educational purposes.

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Looking for a Postdoc opportunity?

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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Leon Liebenberg

Featured Faculty

Leon Liebenberg

Teaching Professor

Prof. Liebenberg is passionate about multidisciplinary research, particularly in the fields of engineering education, energy engineering, and biomedical engineering. His university research has focused on development of industrial energy-efficient technologies and cancer therapies using energy restriction methods, as well as developing novel pedagogies of engagement.