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12/18/2023
Arthur Motta, professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering, was named the 2023 Honorary Member of the Société Française de Métallurgie et de Matériaux, a French non-profit scientific association for metallurgy and materials.
11/20/2023
The American Nuclear Society named Elia Merzari, professor of nuclear engineering at Penn State, a fellow.
11/6/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering community is mourning the loss of Forrest J. Remick Jr., professor emeritus of nuclear engineering, who died Oct. 9 at the age of 92.
10/25/2023
Dipanjan Pan, Penn State Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and a professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering and of biomedical engineering, led a team that reported the first rapid tests for gonorrhea and chlamydia, built on a platform that could be adjusted to detect a variety of infections.
9/28/2023
Penn State’s Radiation Science and Engineering Center (RSEC), home to the Breazeale Reactor, the nation’s longest continuously operating university research reactor, received the first new supply of Training, Research, Isotopes General Atomics (TRIGA) fuel shipped to the U.S. in more than a decade on Sept. 27.
8/8/2023
Xing Wang, assistant professor of nuclear engineering in the Penn State College of Engineering, was awarded a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy’s Distinguished Early Career Award. He was one of five early career faculty employed at a U.S. university to receive the honor, which also included $625,000 to fund a five-year research project related to nuclear energy.
7/27/2023
Professor Jon Schwantes was named acting nuclear engineering department head, effective July 1. He steps into the acting role while Jean Paul Allain serves a two-year term as associate director for fusion energy sciences within the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Science.
7/13/2023
Penn State’s Radiation Science and Engineering Center has joined the Nuclear Science User Facilities (NSUF) as a partner institution, which offers nuclear energy researchers access to facilities, expertise and other nuclear research-related assistance.
6/12/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering will recognize 10 alumni with the Early Career Award for their achievements and demonstrated commitment to their professions, communities and Penn State at a ceremony on June 16 at University Park.
6/12/2023
Tenured and tenure-line faculty promotions at Penn State, effective July 1, 2023, include more than 25 engineering faculty members.
5/17/2023
Penn State researchers will join a University of Florida-led consortium of 16 universities to research areas related to nuclear forensics, an integral component of nuclear security within the United States.
5/16/2023
Jean Paul Allain, head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, has been appointed to a two-year term as associate director for fusion energy sciences (FES) within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science.
5/12/2023
Scout Bucks, fourth-year undergraduate student studying nuclear engineering and mechanical engineering, received a $10,000 scholarship through the Department of Energy University Nuclear Leadership Program.
5/10/2023
Penn State nuclear engineering students took home four best presentation and poster awards from the American Nuclear Society Student Conference at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in April.
4/25/2023
The Penn State College of Engineering has named its student marshals for the spring 2023 commencement ceremony. One student is selected to represent each of the 14 majors associated with the college and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program.
4/18/2023
The first rapid test for mpox, more commonly known as monkeypox, has been developed by a team of researchers led by Penn State.
4/14/2023
Jean Paul Allain, department head and Huck Chair Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State, was named this year’s recipient of the Institutes of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Fusion Technology Award, presented by the Fusion Technology Committee.
3/27/2023
Dipanjan Pan, Dorothy Foehr Huck & J. Lloyd Huck Chair Professor in Nanomedicine and professor of nuclear engineering and of materials science and engineering at Penn State, will serve as a co-investigator on a $46 DARPA consortium to develop artificial blood.
3/21/2023
The Penn State student chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) won the bid to host the 2024 ANS student conference at University Park. The conference is scheduled for April 4-6 of next year and will have the theme of “Keystone of Tomorrow.”
3/6/2023
The average person does not spend their time imagining a nuclear device going off in an American city, because it meets the very definition of “unthinkable.” But the Interaction of Ionizing Radiation with Matter University Research Alliance, led by Penn State, focuses on just that.
2/22/2023
A multi-institutional research team, co-led by Penn State, identified a new mechanism of corrosion that could have implications for safe power plant and nuclear reactor designs.
2/14/2023
Seventeen new faculty members have joined the Penn State College of Engineering since early fall 2022. The 12 tenured or tenure-line faculty and six professional track faculty represent 11 units and departments and include one new department head.
2/9/2023
Both Penn State and Jean Paul Allain, Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist, were featured in an article from Yahoo that discussed micro nuclear reactors and universities around the United States that are experimenting with them.
1/31/2023
Javari Cherry, a second-year Penn State Abington aerospace engineering major, is laying the groundwork for the future by capitalizing on opportunities open to undergraduates in his field. Last summer, Cherry worked as a research assistant in a lab led by Jean Paul Allain, the Huck Chair Professor and head of the Ken and Mary Alice Lindquist Department of Nuclear Engineering.
