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El-Genk delivered lecture at ANS Winter Meeting and Expo
December 4, 2024
Mohamed S. El-Genk, PhD, Distinguished and Regents’ Professor of Nuclear Engineering and the founding Director of the Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies, was an invited speaker at the Open Plenary Panel of the American Nuclear Society’s Winter Meeting and Expo held in Orlando, FL, November 17 – 21, 2024. Read More...
Engineering professor to lead $5 million project investigating materials for safe storage of nuclear waste
October 31, 2024
Project will expand experiential research opportunities for students at UNM and two HBCUs Read More...
UNM Ph.D. student attends Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation
October 9, 2024
A Ph.D. student in the University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering was one of just 18 students to attend the Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation (NESD) in Washington, D.C., last month. Read More...
UNM Engineering student competes on American Ninja Warrior
August 1, 2024
If you think a college student studying nuclear engineering by day and training as a ninja by night sounds like the plot of a television series, you would almost be right. Read More...
UNM, LANL cohosting muography workshop in November
July 28, 2024
The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory are are cohosting the international 2024 Muographers Workshop, which will be held in Nov. 4-7 in Santa Fe. Read More...
Two School of Engineering advisors to present at national conference
June 11, 2024
Two UNM School of Engineering academic advisors will share their extensive expertise with a national audience this fall. Read More...
Boosting and diversifying the nuclear workforce of the future is the goal of UNM-led Department of Energy program
June 3, 2024
Two University of New Mexico faculty members in the Department of Nuclear Engineering are part of a Department of Energy program to boost awareness and access to nuclear careers in the Southwest. Read More...
Perfetti receives American Nuclear Society early career award
May 1, 2024
Christopher Perfetti, an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, is the recipient of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Reactor Physics Division Early Career Reactor Physicist Award. Read More...
Undergraduates win awards at American Nuclear Society student conference
April 12, 2024
Four undergraduates in the UNM Department of Nuclear Engineering received awards at the 2024 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Conference, held April 4-6 at Penn State. Read More...