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Ribbon finally cut at Talbot Laboratory addition
NPRE News | September 14, 2022
NPRE has strong showing in annual ANS awards
NPRE News | July 25, 2022
Sakurahara awarded prestigious PRA fellowship
NPRE News | June 8, 2022
Alkhatib named Mavis Future Faculty Fellow for 2022-23
NPRE News | May 24, 2022
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.
Accident tolerant fuel: Ensuring safe, sustainable and reliable nuclear power plants
NPRE Professor Brent Heuser discusses the development of accident tolerant nuclear fuel for nuclear power plants in the aftermath of the Fukushima Daiichi accident.
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Nuclear, Plasma & Radiological Engineering (NPRE) Admitted Student Info Session
ADMITTED STUDENTS: Sign up below for an Admitted Student Info Sessions, where you can learn more about the department and how to prepare for your first semester. Registration links will go to your My Illini account. The links are calendar view, so you will get to choose which date to register for once in your My Illini account.
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Grainger Engineering's Plan a Visit (for admitted and prospective students)
Illinois Plasma Institute leads new era of translational research
Combining the best of both worlds, IPI provides a space where forward-thinking industrial partners are able to pair their own research and development staff with academic researchers closer to the underlying science behind a new technology.
COVID-19 Information
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Grainger College of Engineering Scholarship Application
Grainger Engineering Undergraduate Programs Office is accepting applications for available scholarships for the 2022-23 academic year.
See the Scholarships for Continuing Students website for more information and the link to the application.
The next application period runs mid-February thru early March of 2022.
Please contact engr-scholarship@illinois.edu for more information.
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Featured Faculty
Davide Curreli
Associate Professor
Professor Curreli has research interests in plasma physics and plasma code development for industrial and nuclear application, transport phenomena in plasmas, plasma modeling using fluid and kinetic models, and plasma-material interactions. He is currently a NCSA Faculty Fellow through the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.