On September 1, 2017, Professor Rachel Slaybaugh of the Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California Berkeley, began a three-year, half-time assignment as a Program Director with ARPA-E, where she will develop, launch and manage high-impact programs in clean energy, building on her previous experience with the Agency:
Dr. Rebecca Abergel will join the Department of Nuclear Engineering as an Assistant Professor, beginning January 1, 2018.
The Department of Nuclear Engineering has launched a "magazine" on the article website 
On Friday, September 15, 
Professor Kai Vetter's group has been awarded a Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) grant. The proposal, "New Concepts for Mobile Radiation Detection and Mapping Systems", will receive three years of funding.