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September 6, 2017

Hagen (Ph. D.) and Loveless (Graduate) receive notable recognition

Alexander Hagen (Thesis Advisor: Dr. Rusi Taleyarkhan) has been awarded a prize in the Competition for Students at Universities with Less than $600 Million in 2015 R&D Expenditures.

Purdue Nuclear Engineering graduate student, Amanda Loveless was recently announced as a recipient of a Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) graduate scholarship for the 2017-2018 academic year.
September 1, 2017

School of Nuclear Engineering supports inaugural symposium on applied spectroscopy and photonics

Purdue University will hold its first Symposium on Applied Spectroscopy and Photonics: From Cells to Cosmos in September. This event is attracting top researchers in the field, with subjects ranging from Mars exploration to biomedical engineering.

The symposium will be on September 16, 2017 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth Active Learning Center, and is being organized by Purdue’s chapter of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.
August 7, 2017

Professor Abdel-Khalik Leads Effort to Increase Cybersecurity for Nuclear Power Plants

Cybersecurity for nuclear power plants is the focus of a new collaboration between government and academia, led by Purdue University’s Hany Abdel-Khalik.

The National Academy of Engineering has identified cybersecurity as one of the most complex issues engineering has ever faced. As engineering systems become more sophisticated, it gets harder to think about all the ways they can be compromised.
May 12, 2017

Purdue's Nuclear Engineering Connections to the U.S. Navy Run Deep

Since 1955, when the U.S Navy launched its first nuclear-powered submarine, nuclear engineers have been an integral part of homeland defense. Purdue Nuclear Engineering faculty and students are part of this partnership with the U.S. Navy, both as active duty officers and as researchers helping to design next-generation systems.
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