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Over the past 60 years, the School of Nuclear Engineering has mentored an amazing group of students who have gone on to do great things. Please join us in congratulating these two alumni on their impressive achievements.

Mitchell Hemesath from the School of Nuclear Engineering attended the 27th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE). Hemesath submitted a paper and poster on the “Qualification of tensioned metastable fluid detectors for spectroscopic radon & progeny detection under range of environmental conditions.” Of all the students presenting their posters, Hemesath’s was selected as the ICONE27 Student Best Poster. Congratulations Mitchell!

The School of Nuclear Engineering is proud to be featured on two covers of Nuclear News published by the American Nuclear Society.

With the approval and start of Gateway Phase 1, Nuclear Engineering will have a new home in 2022.

The School of Nuclear Engineering is proud to have a nationally recognized chapter of U.S. Women in Nuclear (U.S. WIN).

The inaugural Purdue Conference on Active Nonproliferation hosted by The Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM), the INMM Central Region Chapter (CRC), Purdue University’s Center for Radiological and Nuclear Security (CRANS) and INMM Affiliated Technical Division: Nonproliferation and Arms Control (NAC) was held on Purdue University’s campus March 22-23, 2019.

Lenka Kollar and Maria Korsnick joined the Nuclear Engineering Advisory Board (NEAB) in Spring 2019.

16 of our Nuclear Engineering students graduated in the May 11, 2019 ceremony at Elliott Hall of Music.

Nuclear Engineering student Natalie Houghtalen keeps herself busy while simultaneously studying to obtain a challenging degree. Her fascination and passion for the multi-faceted field of nuclear engineering are detectable in nearly everything she does, and her wide range of extracurriculars make her a standout individual pursuing her dream of working in nuclear technology advocacy.