Student Highlights
Extracurricular opportunities help NEEP undergrad decide career path
NEEP students can take advantage of many opportunities beyond the classroom to enrich their learning, such as participating in undergraduate research, internships and student organizations. For nuclear engineering senior Shea McCarthy, pursuing extracurricular opportunities helped her decide her next step after graduation.
3MT semifinalist Raphaëlle David illuminates the path to a brighter future with nuclear energy
PhD student Raphaëlle David participated as one of eight semifinalists in the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition in which students are challenged to explain their research to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes.
Operation detect light: first year nuclear engineering students gain hands-on experience at the UWNR
First-year students in the Nuclear Engineering program gained hands-on research experience designing and fabricating light sensitive detectors to measure nuclear power.
Through research, undergrad contributes to the future of nuclear
When Gabe Dengler-Jeanblanc, an undergraduate in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, started working on a research project in Assistant Professor Ben Lindley‘s lab, he didn’t anticipate it would lead to him presenting his work at the American Nuclear Society’s annual conference in front of experts from industry and academia.
Three NEEP students awarded American Nuclear Society Scholarships
Graduate student Riley Trendler and undergraduate students Katarina Dries and Asher Jewell were awarded scholarships from the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
As Argonne intern, nuclear engineering undergrad cracks the code
A nuclear engineering senior, Gerson A. Esquivel Garcia is a licensed nuclear reactor operator and a King-Morgridge and Grand Challenges Scholar. In summer 2025, he is completing a research internship with Argonne National Laboratory in the Chicago suburb of Darien, Illinois. We caught up with him in late July to ask a few questions—along with getting some great advice—about his internship.