Eight Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at Illinois students have gained fellowships and scholarships from the U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Program.
The two fellowships and six scholarships represent the highest number of NEUP awards made to NPRE students in any single year.
The Energy Department has used NEUP’s Integrated University Program to award more than $5 million for 57 undergraduate scholarships and 33 graduate fellowships nationwide to students pursuing nuclear energy-related disciplines at universities across the country.
Through this program, undergraduates receive a $7,500 scholarship, while fellowship winners receive up to $50,000 annually over the next three years.
The graduate fellowships also include $5,000 toward a summer internship at a U.S. national laboratory or other approved facility to strengthen the ties between students and the DOE’s nuclear energy research programs. Selected students study a breadth of critical nuclear energy issues, from fuel cycle sustainability to reactor efficiency and design.
The NPRE scholars are undergraduates Alyssa Hayes of Gurnee, Illinois; Patrick Hering of Crystal Lake, Illinois; Jeremy Mettler of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; Kathryn Mummah of Wheaton, Illinois; Daniel O’Grady of Evergreen Park, Illinois; and Grant Schumock of Geneva, Illinois.
Mummah and O’Grady also recently won national scholarships from the American Nuclear Society.
NPRE graduate students with NEUP fellowships are Joseph Bottini of Framingham, Massachusetts; and Katherine Hepler of Lincoln, Illinois.