nuclear engineering

Ph.D. Student Kathy Shield’s Groundbreaking Research on Radioactivity

Ph.D. student Kathy Shields working in a campus lab.Photographer: Marilyn Sargent   “I kind of joke that nuclear engineering is like any other type of engineering plus radiation,” quipped Kathy Shield, a fifth-year PhD student in nuclear engineering. Planning on graduating this summer from…

Rickover Fellowship Program — 1/31/2020

The Rickover Fellowship Program in Nuclear Engineering is designed to meet the needs of the Naval Reactors Division of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for appropriately trained personnel for the maintenance and development of science and engineering technology as it pertains to naval nuclear propulsion. The program…