Chemical & Nuclear Engineering

What will it take to make electrical power generated by nuclear reactors a safe and normal part of the world’s energy future? That’s one of several questions researchers and engineers tried to answer in a series of three-day workshops scattered at universities across the country.

Anil K. Prinja, professor and chair of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, has been selected to receive the American Nuclear Society’s Gerald C. Pomraning Award for 2015.

A research discovery was born from great frustration when Eric Peterson, a graduate student in Nanoscience and Microsystems Engineering at UNM, set out to learn a new measuring technique four years ago as part of his Ph.D.. Peterson, a non-traditional ...

The University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories have selected Fernando Garzon, whose background is in materials science and engineering, as the latest jointly-appointed faculty member between the two institutions. Beginning Sept. 8, ...

Elizabeth L. Dirk, an assistant professor in the University of New Mexico Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded a $400,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

The National Science Foundation, in its mission to ensure the vitality and innovation of science and innovation in the United States, recognizes and awards fellowships to graduate students in NSF-supported science annually. This year one of those ...

Dean of the School of Engineering Joseph Checchi appointed Professor Anil Prinja as inaugural interim chair of the new Department of Nuclear Engineering (NE), Prinja’s appointment begins July 1.

School of Engineering Dean Joseph Cecchi announced that Distinguished Professor Abhaya K. Datye will be the inaugural chair of the new Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE). His appointment begins July 1.

UNM Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Abhaya Datye and his graduate students Eric Peterson and Andrew De La Riva are focused on finding a way to make catalytic converters on diesel engines as efficient as possible...

This summer, two programs that have been combined in one department for decades within the University of New Mexico’s School of Engineering will become separate.