Chemical & Nuclear Engineering

National representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy are coming to The University of New Mexico as part of Nuclear Science Week. “The contributions of nuclear science are many, and recognizing the importance of nuclear innovations in medicine,...

Researchers from The University of New Mexico have been awarded more than $1.5 million in two separate multi-year grants beginning this fall and announced recently from the Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Program. One award, for...

As the result of an accreditation review by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET in fall 2016, all of the bachelor’s degree programs in engineering offered by The University of New Mexico School of Engineering have been...

As the need for alternative forms of energy production continues to increase around the world, researchers at The University of New Mexico are working to improve hydrogen fuel cells by better understanding them at the atomic and molecular...

Faculty members in The University of New Mexico Department of Nuclear Engineering have received more than $2 million in separate grants from the Nuclear Energy University Program, a part of the Department of Energy, as well as a faculty development award...

The University of New Mexico’s nuclear engineering program was recently ranked No. 20 in College Choice’s “25 Best Nuclear Engineering Degrees for 2016-2017.” The poll cited UNM’s long history of being active in the nuclear engineering field and the...

Two design teams from The University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering received best presentation awards in their technical tracks at the American Nuclear Society annual student conference at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Mohamed S. El-Genk, Regents’ Professor of Nuclear, Mechanical, and Chemical and Biological Engineering, has received the 2015 American Nuclear Society Thermal-Hydraulics Technical Achievement Award.  

Norman Frederick Roderick, former chair of the Chemical and Nuclear Engineering Department in the School of Engineering, died April 6 from natural causes.

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.