Nuclear Science and Engineering
Anil K. Prinja
Since his retirement in 2021, Dr. Prinja has been Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he served as the inaugural Department Chair (2014 – 2019). He held Postdoctoral and Research Associate positions (1980 – 1987) in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at University of California Los Angeles prior to joining UNM as Assistant Professor (1987).
Tim Kelley
Tim Kelley retired from a 40+ year career at North Carolina State University in 2025 and joined the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering the same year. Kelley's current research interests include numerical methods for linear and nonlinear solvers, integral equations, particle transport, and optimization. He is the author of five books on these topics. He is a fellow of SIAM and the AAAS.
Haochuan Zhang Selected as Oregon State’s First ARTERD Fellow
Haochuan Zhang, a master’s student in computer science at Oregon State University, has been awarded the university’s first-ever ARTERD Fellowship, a prestigious international research opportunity sponsored by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Nuclear Energy Agency.
Keegan D. Murray
Keegan D. Murray is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering in the Thermal-Hydraulics Group starting in fall of 2025 researching multiphase flow and reactor thermal-hydraulics phenomena. Keegan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in August 2025, under Professor Mark H. Anderson. Prior to his graduate studies, he received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Marquette University in 2019.
Nuclear Science and Engineering reshapes curriculum to align with workforce needs
Preserving a vital field
Several factors motivated the redesign, including the preservation of the health physics discipline. Despite low undergraduate enrollment nationally, demand for health physicists remains high in hospitals, national laboratories, industry, and regulatory agencies, according to Camille Palmer, a professor and associate head of the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering.
A mix of technologies to protect against radioactive threats
For decades, the prospect of nuclear materials falling into the wrong hands has been a major concern for security experts.
“A lot of people could be harmed if any bad actors got their hands on these materials,” said Haori Yang, associate professor of nuclear engineering at Oregon State University’s College of Engineering.