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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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April Novak

Featured Faculty

April Novak

Assistant Professor

Prof. Novak's interests include multiphysics methods and applications, multiscale thermal-hydraulics, Monte Carlo transport methods, reactor design and analysis, and high-performance computing.