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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
Students reimagine the future in global sustainability competition
- NPRE News
- December 16, 2024
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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Join our highly-ranked department. NPRE is currently hiring for multiple open-rank faculty positions.
Featured Faculty
Brent J. Heuser
Professor
Professor Heuser has research interests that include numerical simulation of neutron transport and neutron scattering techniques. He currently heads the Heuser Research Group that oversees research projects concerned with hydrogen in metals, nuclear fuel matrices, neutron scattering, and neutron monochromator.