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Graduate Student Sasha Asghari's Career Highlighted at Alma Mater
January 31, 2013
Nuclear Engineering first-year graduate student Alexandra Asghari was featured in a Sacramento State University video, beginning with her childhood in Kyrgyzstan and moving to the US at an early age. Her eloquent message encourages young women to pursue advanced degrees in STEM fields, and also speaks very highly of the CSU system from which the University draws so many of our grad students.
Please click here to view the full article on Sasha Asghari
Norman named Fellow of AAAS
November 29, 2012
We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Eric "Rick" Norman has been elected this year as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “for distinguished contributions to nuclear science and applications to national security, and high commitment to public education and outreach, particularly following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.”
The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society, and the publisher of Science magazine.
This year, 4 UC Berkeley faculty members were elected as AAAS Fellows, bringing the campus total to 227. Additionally 2 LBNL scientists were elected. The induction for new Fellows will take place at the 2013 annual AAAS meeting in Boston on February 16. For further information, please see the link below.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/11/29/four-faculty-members-named-fellows-of-aaas/
LANL Summer School for Advanced Undergrads
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico
is currently soliciting applicants for the fourteenth Los Alamos Dynamic Summer School, June 10th through August 9th, 2013. The purpose of this summer school is to focus a select group of prospective upper level undergraduate students and first year graduate students on the multi‐disciplinary field of cyber‐physical dynamic systems. Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are defined by the National Science Foundation as “engineered systems that are built from and depend upon the synergy of computational and physical components.” The summer school has two focus areas. First, the multi‐disciplinary nature of research in cyber‐physical systems will be emphasized throughout the summer school. The students will be assigned to multi‐disciplinary teams where they will work with a mentor on a research topic that has both an analytical and experimental component. Second, efforts will be made to develop the students’ written and oral communication skills. Applications must be received by January 14th, 2013. More information regarding the Summer School can be found at: http://institute.lanl.gov/ei/dynamics‐summer‐school/.
UC Berkeley Nuclear Research
September 26, 2012
Professor Per Peterson introduces the BERC Symposium in October and talks about Nuclear Engineering research in this short YouTube video.
Per Peterson featured on the KQED Quest science program on nuclear energy
September 19, 2012
Nuclear Engineering Professor, Per Peterson, was recently featured on KQED Quest science program that played on September 19, 2012 at 7:30pm. Professor Peterson was interviewed on the topic of nuclear energy and features our work here at UC Berkeley. You can read the full feature and watch the 11-minute TV story on KQED web site
Faculty Position in NE
August 1, 2012
NE is seeking applications for Non-Tenure, Tenure Track, Assistant Professor position in Reactor Neutronics
