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As the Lobo Football team prepares to compete in the Rate Bowl later this month, the team’s first out-of-town bowl game since 2004, one player is wrapping up his first semester as a master’s student in Nuclear Engineering. While Mercury Swaim, No. 16 on...

Chris Perfetti, associate professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, received the American Nuclear Society Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award at the organization’s national conference in Chicago for his work advancing nuclear...

More than 500 university students, scientists, and job recruiters from around the country are expected to flock to The University of New Mexico in early April to attend “Old and Nu,” the 2025 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Conference, which is...

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. Ethan Krammer, who anticipates finishing his...

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. Lauren Bailey, Alexandra Martinez and Courtney Mace presented on their capstone...

A faculty member from The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering is the lead on two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs that total more than $1 million. Eric Lang, an assistant professor of...

Two nuclear engineering students from The University of New Mexico are among 32 students from institutions around the country to receive graduate fellowships as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s University Nuclear Leadership Program...

The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering will welcome a new leader this academic year with the arrival of Hyoung K. Lee. Lee, who comes from Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), will begin as department...

Faculty members in The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering have received more than $2 million in separate grants from the Nuclear Energy University Program, a part of the Department of Energy, as well as a faculty development award...

The University of New Mexico’s nuclear engineering program was recently ranked No. 20 in College Choice’s “25 Best Nuclear Engineering Degrees for 2016-2017.” The poll cited UNM’s long history of being active in the nuclear engineering field and the...