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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.
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
Mohaghegh awarded NSF mid-career grant
- NPRE News
- March 12, 2025
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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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.