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Sara NormanSeptember 19, 2023

Michigan Engineering honors NERS alumnus Eric Esarey with Department Merit Award

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Esarey is the Director of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Sara NormanJuly 31, 2023

IAEA using tech developed by NERS professor and alum

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The technology will be used for the verification of un-irradiated nuclear material.

frtlssApril 14, 2023

NERS Alum Andrea Kritcher is on the 2023 TIME100 List 

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Andrea Kritcher has been named to TIME100, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.

SnehaFebruary 27, 2023

NERS alum Dr. James Baciak and NERS professor Dr. Igor Jovanovic are among the founders of the new Consortium for Nuclear Forensics sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

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The five-year, $25 million research award is one of the largest federal research grants ever received by the University of Florida.

SnehaNovember 7, 2022

Use of ultrashort-pulsed lasers to excite fluorescence of chlorophyll in plants as an optical biosensor for nuclear activity

Recent NERS Ph.D. graduate Lauren Finney’s research on remote detection of a signature for uranium exposure in algae published in Scientific Reports.

Sara NormanJune 6, 2022

NERS alumni Steven Brown and David Goodman developing quantitative gamma imager

The imager will resolve the location and shape of nuclear materials for more accurate mass quantification.

Sara NormanNovember 5, 2021

Kristine Svinicki given Henry DeWolf Smyth Nuclear Statesman Award from ANS and NEI

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The award recognizes outstanding service in developing and guiding the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Sara NormanSeptember 15, 2021

Annie Kritcher leads revolutionary nuclear fusion experiment

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The NERS alum and her team at LLNL came close to reproducing the power of the sun on earth.

Sara NormanAugust 27, 2021

The Michigan Memorial Phoenix Project returns to NERS

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The World War II memorial is devoted to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Sara NormanJuly 12, 2021

NERS PhD Alum Stephen Taller receives DOE Rapid Turnaround Experiment award

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The award will allow Taller to use the Michigan Ion Beam Laboratory to perform in-situ dual ion beam irradiation.

Sara NormanJanuary 25, 2021

NERS Alum Dr. Valentin T. Jordanov named IEEE Fellow for contributions to radiation measurements

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Jordanov has made fundamental contributions to real-time digital and analog pulse processing in radiation measurements.

Sara NormanJanuary 19, 2021

NERS Alum Kristine Svinicki is stepping down as Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Svinicki’s role at the top of the NRC spanned three U.S. presidencies.

Sara NormanOctober 4, 2018

Alumni books: Alumnus Mel Bost authors book on project and process management

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The NERS department congratulates C. Melvin Bost, Jr., on the publication of his new book.

Sara NormanJanuary 23, 2018

Sid Yip and Nenita Teodoro Yip gift to support NERS students and faculty

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The Ziya Akcasu Fellowship Fund will be used to provide need-based support to graduate students, and the Sidney and Nenita Yip Junior Faculty Award Fund will honor and support assistant or recently tenured associate faculty members.

Sara NormanOctober 24, 2017

Geoff West wins 2017 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award

William “Geoff” West (MEng ’95, PhD ’11), founder, president and chief medical physicist of West Physics, has won the 2017 University of Michigan College of Engineering Outstanding Recent Alumni Award.

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