Chemical & Nuclear Engineering

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...

Eric Lang, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering, will lead a new consortium funded by the Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration to...

The Farris Engineering Center was originally built on The University of New Mexico campus in 1967. By the 2000s it was obvious that the building was inadequate for the departments housed there. Distinguished Regents' Professor Emeritus at the Department...

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...

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. Ixchel Valentino, a second-year nuclear engineering student at The University of...

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. The award recognizes early career members of the...

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...

Ashley Machado, a graduate student in the UNM Department of Nuclear Engineering, has received the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme. The fellowship will pay for Machado’s tuition, living costs and...