Topics: Nuclear Engineering

Sparking a New Generation of Power

Scores of young alumni are dreaming up fresh ways to harness nuclear, wind, and solar power; optimize our use of fossil fuels; and support development of energy solutions.

Atomic Insights

Ju Li has created a window into a world where things are inconceivably small and change inconceivably fast.

Paola Cappellaro's work with nanoscale diamonds opens a route to computers that can search huge databases in a flash or crack virtually any secret code. Photo: Len Rubenstein

Quantum Engineering

Paola Cappellaro's work with nanoscale diamonds opens a route to computers that can search huge databases in a flash or crack virtually any secret code.

Prof. Richard Lester is now working with others to make new energy technologies as paradigm shifting as the cell phone.

Better Technology

Prof. Richard Lester is now working with others to determine how new energy technologies can become as ubiquitous as the cell phone.

Prof. Ian Hutchinson says undergraduate enrollment in nuclear science and engineering is now at an all-time high. Photo: Ed Quinn

Nuclear Engineering

Prof. Ian Hutchinson says graduate fellowships in nuclear engineering are vital to addressing the global energy crisis.